Sales in the construction industry will continue to increase strongly in 2022 and 2023. Overall, DIW Berlin estimates a nominal increase in construction volume of almost 13 percent in 2022 and six percent in 2023 to 585 billion euros. In 2021, construction volume increased by ten percent to 488...

Introduction -- Income generation -- Education and skills development -- Agriculture -- Housing -- Energy -- Waste -- Water and sanitation -- Transportation -- Health and well-bing -- Environment -- Governance -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

According to the German Institute for Economic Research construction volume forecast, the country’s construction industry will continue to flourish in the coming years. Companies can count on a rise in the nominal construction volume of around 7.5 percent in 2019 and 6.5 percent next year. The...

Der Aufholprozeß in Ostdeutschland hat sich im Jahr 1996 verlangsamt. Die Impulse, die insbesondere von der massiven staatlichen Unterstützung der Investitionstätigkeit ausgingen, sind merklich schwächer geworden. Vor allem die Aktivitäten der Bauwirtschaft, die lange Zeit die wesentlichen...

Public infrastructure is an important part of a wellfunctioningurban economy. Such infrastructure—definedhere as publicly owned and maintained physical capital—hashistorically played a central role in allowing cities to grow bymitigating or reducing problems such as congested...

This paper documents the convergence of incomes across Indian states over theperiod 1965 to 1998. It departs from traditional analyses of convergence by trackingthe evolution of the entire income distribution, instead of standard regression and timeseries analyses. The findings reveal twin-peaks...