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Farther on Down the Road: Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Storeygard, Adam - Department of Economics, Tufts University
transport costs of -0.25 at that distance. Moreover, the effect differs by the surface of roads between cities. Cities connected … to the port by paved roads are chiefly affected by transport costs to the port, while cities connected to the port by … unpaved roads are more affected by connections to secondary centers. …
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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
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Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Drehery, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
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Long-Term Effects of the Inca Road
Franco, Ana Paula; Galiani, Sebastian; Lavado, Pablo - 2021
The Inca Empire was the last of a long series of highly developed cultures in pre-colonial South America. It stretched across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road was its 30,000-kilometer-long transportation system....
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Estimating road transport costs between EU regions
Persyn, Damiaan; Díaz-Lanchas, Jorge; Barbero, Javier - 2019
roads to highways. We apply this tool to study transport infrastructure investment through the European Cohesion Policy … transport policy tool to assess the impact of road-transport infrastructure investment in a region by considering upgrading …
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Infrastructure and girls' education : bicycles, roads, and the gender education gap in India
Seebacher, Moritz - 2022
How can infrastructure help to reduce the gender education gap in developing countries? In this paper, I analyze the … complementarity of all-weather roads and a bicycle program in Bihar, India, which aimed to increase girls' secondary school enrollment …-weather roads. Their net secondary school enrollment rate increased by over 87 percent, reducing the respective gender education gap …
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Development of the model to examine the impact of infrastructure on economic growth and convergence
Mačiulytė-Šniukienė, Alma; Butkus, Mindaugas; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 23 (2022) 3, pp. 731-753
Core infrastructure, which covers transportation, information and communication (ICT), energy, water and sanitation … systems, plays a significant role in economic growth. The development of core infrastructure - one of the European Union (EU … addressing the identified issues is needed to assess the impact of infrastructure on economic growth and convergence …
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Colonial roads and regional inequality
Marein, Brian - In: Journal of urban economics 131 (2022), pp. 1-21
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Urban Transit Infrastructure and Inequality : The Role of Access to Non-Tradable Goods and Services
Tan, Brandon - 2021
With 68% of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, mass transit networks are expanding faster than ever before. But how are the economic gains from such expansions being shared between low- and high-income workers? Existing research focuses on the role of commuting to...
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Infrastructure (Rural Road) Development and Poverty Alleviation in Lao PDR
Oraboune, Syviengxay - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
Rural road in Lao PDR defined as connecting road from village to main road, where it will lead them to market and access to other economic and social service facilities. However, due to mostly rural people accustom with subsistence farming, connecting road seems less important for rural people...
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