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We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major … importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy …-makers to understand the intended, and potentially unintended, long run consequences of their infrastructure investment …
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urban environment - in particular the quality of urban infrastructure - strongly determine the growth-enhancing benefits of … empirically). We analyse several measures of urban infrastructure and look at different world regions, taking a special focus on … to significant deficiencies in terms of urban infrastructure. …
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infrastructure investment projects and their financing options on growth and distribution in Indonesia economy. It is possible to …
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The relation between infrastructure and economic growth has been largely investigated in the literature, but the … empirical evidence found has proven to be controversial. This paper aims to empirically analyze the impact of infrastructure … stocks on economic growth. In spite of there being theoretical justification for taking infrastructure into account in …
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The main goal of this paper is to provide evidence for the causal effect of the highway and railway infrastructure on … studied before at this scale. We constructed a unique population and transport infrastructure dataset covering 579 cities from …
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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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and developed countries initially need to establish regional economic infrastructure, the next concern should be given to … the social infrastructure. In local regions, the presence of sufficient social infrastructure may hold the number of … given to the roles played by public sector for coordinating wider-regional sharing of the social infrastructure element. The …
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-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … Asia region's rates of access to infrastructure (sanitation, electricity, telecom, and transport) are closer to those of … of access across time, that is, across generations. It finds that while the regressivity of infrastructure services is …
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This paper estimates the non-linear impact of ICT network on motorway contribution to total factor productivity. Using dynamic panel data of OECD member countries, the paper finds that there exists a critical mass of broadband penetration rate which has the property that if this threshold level...
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