This paper investigates how the services of public capital affect the different sectors of private economy in Italy. For this purpose, we use a trans-logarithmic cost function which includes infrastructure’s services as a quasi-fixed free input. This approach allows to measure the effects of...

In spite of the efforts and initiatives undertaken by the NHB, NCDC, APEDA, NABARD, Commercial banks, and other funding agencies to create proper and adequate post-harvest infrastructure for horticulture crops, the development of PHI related facilities in horticulture sector is not impressive so...

The Brazilian experience is of particular interest as a case study into the fiscal scope for public sector investments, especially in infrastructure. Brazil has one of the highest tax burdens in the world and, at the same time, the public sector has been registering a historic low in investment,...