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Downsized, restructured and greener (2019-23) : a new era for China's New Silk Road?
Barisitz, Stephan - 2024
This study focuses on the most recent development of Chinese overseas investment and construction and of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2019-23, from a project-oriented perspective. As a source we use data of the China Global Investment Tracker (CGIT) of the American Enterprise Institute....
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Roads for Asian integration : measuring ADB's contribution to the Asian highway network
Madhur, Srinivasa; Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Darjes, Peter - 2009
Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) programs. It also finds that ADB road investment has made a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283452
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Transport infrastructure for MED11 countries
Carruthers, Robin - 2012
Lack of adequate infrastructure is a significant inhibitor to increased trade of the countries of the Mediterranean region. Bringing their transport infrastructure to standards comparable with countries of a similar per capita GDP will be costly but worthwhile. We compare the current quantities...
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Belt and Road Transport Corridors : Barriers and Investments
Lobyrev, Vitaly - 2018
The report presents an analysis of the impact that international freight traffic barriers have on logistics, transit potential, and development of transport corridors traversing EAEU member states. Restrictions discussed in this report include infrastructural (transport and logistical...
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Transportation and Communication Infrastructure in Latin America : Lessons from Asia
Kotschwar, Barbara R. - 2012
In Latin America, inadequate transportation infrastructure has been identified as an increasingly important impediment to the region's further integration in global trade and a significant factor preventing countries from properly taking advantage of the multitude of regional, plurilateral, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171055
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Trade effects of transportation infrastructure among CAREC countries
Baniya, Suprabha; Taniguchi, Kiyoshi - 2022
(ADB) in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program. To do this, we applied a combination of geographic …-funded transportation reforms in the CAREC program. Then, using econometric analyses, we examine the direct impacts of transport time on the …-part model, we find that the ADB transportation reforms in CAREC countries increase the trade values for existing exporters by 3 …
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Evaluating impacts of cross-border transport infrastructure in the Greater Mekong Subregion : three approaches
Fujimura, Manabu - 2017
This paper presents three approaches to the evaluation of cross-border transport infrastructure in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). First, it estimates benefit-cost ratios for selected segments of economic corridors. The results indicate differing degrees of economic viability among different...
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Capital cities and road network integration : evidence from the U.S.
Loumeau, Nicole - 2021
This paper quantifies the causal effect of capital status on road network integration of U.S.micro/metropolitan statistical areas. Road network integration is defined using a class of measurements that evaluate how well a location is connected to all other locations through the National Highway...
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TEN-T corridors : stairway to heaven or highway to hell?
Goldmann, Kathrin; Wessel, Jan - 2019
The European Union coordinates and co-finances supra-national transport infrastructure investments in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) which consist of road, rail, airport, and port infrastructure. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to quantify the direct and indirect...
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How to spend it : a proposal for a European Covid-19 recovery programme
Creel, Jérôme; Holzner, Mario; Saraceno, Francesco; … - 2020
The Recovery Fund recently proposed by the EU Commission marks a sea-change in European integration. Yet it will not be enough to meet the challenges Europe faces. There has been much public debate about financing, but little about the sort of concrete projects that the EU should be putting...
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