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This paper evaluates the economic development of China using the New Economic Geography (NEG) as a framework of … process sustains it. This paper also supports the hypothesis that investment in infrastructure and fixed assets, which has … been concentrated in China due to the nature of the Special Economic Zones in the Coastal regions, and the interdependence …
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-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … Asia region's rates of access to infrastructure (sanitation, electricity, telecom, and transport) are closer to those of … of access across time, that is, across generations. It finds that while the regressivity of infrastructure services is …
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
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This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People …'s Republic of China. Recent policies target reductions in income inequality while increasing sustainable urban development …. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both goals, yet the effects of different infrastructures on income …
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This paper evaluates the economic development of China using the New Economic Geography (NEG) as a framework of … process sustains it. This paper also supports the hypothesis that investment in infrastructure and fixed assets, which has … been concentrated in China due to the nature of the Special Economic Zones in the Coastal regions, and the interdependence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107793
; infrastructure ; knowledge creation ; China …This paper evaluates the economic development of China using the New Economic Geography (NEG) as a framework of … process sustains it. This paper also supports the hypothesis that investment in infrastructure and fixed assets, which has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540143
This study investigates the economic impact of China's "stadium diplomacy" in Sub-Saharan Africa. Exploiting the … widely held notion that China's development finance projects constitute "white elephants". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014456170
Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has … resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both hard and soft infrastructure on trade … improvements in transport infrastructure (i.e., the road density network, air transport, railways, ports, and logistics) have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407564
The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of infrastructure on trade in the case of Central Asian countries …. Infrastructure is measured by the aspects of quality and quantity in three Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic … and quantity of infrastructure in Central Asia have a positive impact on trade flows. However, estimations by country …
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