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construction? How can we evaluate the performance of infrastructure development? How and to what extent should the government be …The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth via various channels including reducing transaction costs and raising …
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Research findings of the latest round of the wiiw-GDN project on development in the Balkans are surveyed. Historical … and structural deficiencies of development in the Balkan countries are discussed in detail with emphasis of the role of … the policy framework biased towards rigidity, and having in mind the needed structural adjustment, development policies …
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among development economists. While some contend that agricultural development is a precondition to industrialization …
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Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
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After much debate, many academic circles have concluded that under the right circumstances, infrastructure stocks may … be a promoter for growth. This paper benchmarks Mexico’s infrastructure quantity stocks and identifies Mexico …’s infrastructure bottlenecks in regard to 94 countries. With a sample of annual data from 1960 to 2014, the analysis focuses on three …
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Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
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