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environment, infrastructure, governance and international cooperation in Canada. Key themes discussed include global and national …
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Infrastructure development in Southeast Asia has been financed mainly by public funds, which leave wide gaps in … implementation is not limited to hard infrastructure only, but also to social infrastructure. …
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Critical precondition for attaining growth and sustainable development is availability of a host of infrastructural facilities in adequate quantity and of reliable quality. The association between the latter and growth is well documented and a large number of theoretical propositions conclude...
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L’investissement public a le potentiel de stimuler la demande à court terme, et des infrastructures appropriées peuvent aussi entraîner des gains de productivité et contribuer à rendre la croissance économique plus inclusive en garantissant une égalité d’accès au marché du travail,...
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future H2 infrastructure will be needed. The paper aims to assess three H2 infrastructures for Germany within a European …. Own socio-technical scenarios are used to include findings from four disciplines for a holistic infrastructure evaluation …
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This paper reviews the book “Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa” by Antonio Estache and Quentin Wodon …. The authors summarize the political debate on infrastructure policy in Africa in a very compelling and knowledgeable way … welfare enhancing benefits of infrastructure investments is less conclusive than suggested in the book. The book also misses …
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I investigate the effect of electricity provision on industrialization using a panel of Indian states for 1965–1984. To address the endogeneity of investment in electrification, I use the introduction of a new agricultural technology intensive in irrigation (the Green Revolution) as a natural...
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While bringing positive impacts and benefits, cross-border infrastructure projects face additional challenges relative … factors, and their obstacles constrain the development of cross-border infrastructure projects. This paper argues that proper … wherever necessary, will promote the further development of cross-border infrastructure projects …
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direct relationship with income. Public infrastructure provision, income, and education are the key variables which can be … infrastructure have varying impacts on rural and urban households' energy mix, these variables generally reduce rudimentary fuel use … and increase modern fuel consumption. Timely investment in electricity infrastructure is necessary to cater for burgeoning …
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This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses road accessibility, transport corridors and checkpoints set up in border towns in West Africa. An innovative model shows that the population base of border towns could be 14% greater if there were no delays at border crossings. The...
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