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regional benchmarking or comparing the types of programs and infrastructure available to support closely related economic …
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regional benchmarking or comparing the types of programs and infrastructure available to support closely related economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138405
New Silk Road railways have provided cross-continental rail freight services between China and Eurasian countries since … China. To address the issue of endogenous placement of railways, we utilize the generalized synthetic control method. We … countries based on whether they share boundary with China …
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We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An … period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new indices on infrastructure and provide country rankings, which we also … compare with subjective assessments of infrastructure in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. Finally, we …
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Making use of considerably improved measures of infrastructure, we assess the impact of infrastructure on bilateral …-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance on trade in … of the gravity model. Importantly, we still observe significant and non-linear effects of infrastructure on bilateral …
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Widespread liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s enabled the freer movement of capital across international borders. Alongside large and often volatile movements in capital flows, risks to macro stability and the health of the financial system have led many countries to reconsider the wisdom of...
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technological innovations and environmental-related expenditures. Equally, infrastructure investment plays an important role in the … provision of fundamental demands and needs such as transport, utilities, communication, and energy, with ‘green infrastructure … infrastructure investment trends through a global investigation of 56 countries for the period 2000-2020. Employing data extracted …
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This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries, virtual countries and ethnic groups, exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade...
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Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...
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We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
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