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The government wants an infrastructure-based public service to be provided. First, the infrastructure has to be built …
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The construction sector plays a key role in providing structures for economies. This paper surveys the literature on key issues pertaining to the construction sector. It starts by summarizing our knowledge about differences in unit costs across time and space. It then discusses key bottlenecks...
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This research study aimed to assesses the impact of infrastructure based on the evaluation of infrastructure provision … infrastructure financing in Georgia and outlines the importance of greater involvement of the private sector in infrastructure … for infrastructure projects by increasing the rate of return for private investors. …
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, political, and governance variables to assess the determinants of private financing of infrastructure in emerging markets and … developing economies. Controlling for economic characteristics, we find that overall private participation of infrastructure … infrastructure. Our results do not vary when controlling for income inequality and across quartiles of experience, country wealth …
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This paper develops a structural model of infrastructure and output growth that specifies the ways in which country … characteristics and policies enter the infrastructure-GDP interactions and lead to heterogeneity of steady states and convergence …-country estimates of the model indicate that the contribution of infrastructure services to GDP is substantial and in general exceeds …
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This paper develops a structural model of infrastructure and output growth that specifies the ways in which country … characteristics and policies enter the infrastructure-GDP interactions and lead to heterogeneity of steady states and convergence …-country estimates of the model indicate that the contribution of infrastructure services to GDP is substantial and in general exceeds …
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We examine how highway accessibility influences local employment outcomes. We exploit the stagewise expansion of the "Baltic Sea highway", the largest contiguous highway construction project in Germany since 1945. Results from difference-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show...
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. For this purpose, we use a trans-logarithmic cost function which includes infrastructure’s services as a quasi-fixed free …
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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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