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We develop a model in which public capital is both an engine of growth and a determinant of the distributions of wealth, income, and welfare. Government investment increases wealth inequality over time, regardless of its financing. The time path of income inequality is, however, highly sensitive...
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This paper cites statistics published by the World Economic Forum and concludes that there is no infrastructure crisis … infrastructure, which places it firmly in the top 8 percent in terms of infrastructure development. Thus, it is not reasonable to … argue or conclude that there is an infrastructure crisis …
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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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, 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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Cities are shaped by transportation infrastructure. Older cities were anchored by waterways. Nineteenth century cities … value of investing in transportation infrastructure. Future transportation innovations, including autonomous vehicles and …
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Faced with historically low interest rates, investors are looking further into illiquid assets such as infrastructure … analyzes the key performance and risk characteristics of the EDHECinfra global unlisted infrastructure equity index when … compared to the main global listed infrastructure indices during the 2001-2018 period. The descriptive statistics method is …
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This paper studies the regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on employment and transport volumes by … effects from infrastructure provision on various outcome variables. Moreover, we find that rail transport does not crowd out …
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