In the midst of a Global Economic Crisis, both governments and investors are pondering the following question. What is the solution to the Global Financial Market Meltdown ? The think tank at The KIN Consulting and Research Services Company have spanned the globe searching for potential...

Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

Africa's road networks tend to have an interior-to-coast shape. As such, they are better placed to export natural resources, than to support regional trade. Are they the best response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of political distortions? To answer this question, we...

This paper combines local election results and geo-referenced road construction data over 1993-2012 to investigate political bias in road infrastructure investment in a democratic setting, focusing on the case of Mexico. Using a regression discontinuity design, the paper finds strong evidence of...

This publication, the first in a series of three, considers the feasibility of the central economic growth target that is set out in South Africa's National Development Plan 2030. It then explores some of the associated human development targets. The paper first looks at the core characteristics...

Der Bund setzt zu Lasten der Länder eine zentrale Bundesfernstrassengesellschaft durch, zudem sollen kommunale Schulgebäude künftig vom Bund direkt gefördert werden können. Beides öffnet den Weg zu noch mehr Privatisierungen und zu noch mehr Öffentlich-Privaten Partnerschaften. Darüber...