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The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative … deficiencies in infrastructure performance in Lesotho: (1) extremely low access to electricity and its affordability; (2) poor …
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infrastructure (especially between the north and the south), which were partly determined by regional development policy, and (ii … indicates significant urbanization economies, notably those related to infrastructure, but the size of these economies varies … country failed to take advantage of these economies, and its declining capital stock, including infrastructure, may have …
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local innovation due to an increased entry, productivity, and specialization of independent inventors. As the railroad …
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This paper proposes to identify the micro-level sources for the dynamic increasing returns occurring at an aggregate level. The paper reverts to a micro model of technological change in-line with the evolutionary literature on industrial dynamics. The data generated through numerical simulations...
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infrastructure, growth, and productivity in developing Asian countries. The main conclusion is that a number of countries in … developing Asia have significantly improved their basic infrastructure endowments in the recent past. This improvement appears to …
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Empirical explorations of the growth and aggregate productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by … manufacturing over the 1970–2000 period, and a range of 19 infrastructure measures, explores the question of infrastructure … the possibility of endogeneity in the infrastructure measures renders the impact of infrastructure capital not only …
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extensions in the infrastructure network …
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This paper presents new evidence on the impact of public infrastructure on the Australian economy. The contribution of …. Second, it employs a new data set on public infrastructure. Third, the paper applies detailed econometric investigations in … infrastructure spillovers to productivity and, consequently, results in incredibly high estimates of infrastructure elasticity …
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