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This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People …. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both goals, yet the effects of different infrastructures on income … disparities at the city level remain undetermined. Using 10 city-level infrastructure indicators relating to sustainable urban …
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This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses road accessibility, transport corridors and checkpoints set up in border towns in West Africa. An innovative model shows that the population base of border towns could be 14% greater if there were no delays at border crossings. The...
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productivity. Another mechanism emphasized in this paper is that infrastructure investment can promote urbanization through … infrastructure investment and the productivity of the economy. On the other hand, evidence in the PRC suggests a cross …The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined …
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This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on tax revenues and on the economy of the region. In 1991 …
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, safeguard land for utilities and physical infrastructure decades ahead, deliberately configures transport networks (including … planning and implementation have overly focused on housing and neglected other types of physical infrastructure. Moreover, the …
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Transport, social as well as some other types of infrastructure represent an important component of system … existing settlement system. There are only little doubts that the role of infrastructure in local and/or regional development … existing spatial distribution of infrastructure. The same - with even higher intensity - applies to also to post …
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High-quality infrastructure will boost regional economic development and reduce poverty and income inequality. The … spill-over effects created by this high-quality infrastructure will be seen in the form of an increase in gross domestic … product and tax revenue in the region. These positive effects can be utilized to address the gap between infrastructure demand …
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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...
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The provision of infrastructure and related services in developing Asia via publi-private partnership (PPP) increased …. Empirical results suggest that increasing the ratio of PPP investment to GDP improves access to and quality of infrastructure …
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We examine the evolution of infrastructure, and the impact of infrastructure investment, in middleincome countries … (MICs). We document how different types of infrastructure stocks, as well as infrastructure investment, vary with the level … provision of infrastructure varies across development stages; there is a focus on basic infrastructure, such as transport, water …
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