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There are ongoing academic and public debates on the nature of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). While some … problems of capital accumulation under China's export-oriented growth model indicates a particular form of spatial fix via the … space for new forms of asymmetric interdependencies, rendering it prohibitively costly for most BRI partners to exit China …
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In the past three decades, developing countries have made significant economic and social progress, from improved infant mortality rates to higher life expectancy. Yet, 1.3 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty in the developing world, leading policymakers to place a renewed...
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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...
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Infrastructure construction and use is at the heart o the current political debate. Not only are European member state governments investing large amounts of money to alleviate the harmful effects of the economic downturn due to the credit crisis, EU accession countries receive large amounts of...
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