Thailand's increasing importance as a regional co-production base and as an intra-regional trade and border trade hub is due mainly to recent changes in its economic structure, namely, the lack of operational workers, rises in wages, and increases in outward foreign direct investment (FDI),...

There are three parts of our paper. Firstly, it gives an overview about the goals and factors which affect the integration of local communal services. Horizontal integration means joining the various individual service providers, such as water supply and sewage, communal waste, district heating,...

This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of a permanent increase in foreign aid in a model that takes into account environmental quality. We develop a dynamic equilibrium model in which both public investment in infrastructure and environmental protection can be financed using domestic...

Führt eine private Finanzierung von Infrastrukturprojekten zu größerer Wirtschaftlichkeit, oder ist dies nur eine Umgehung der Schuldenbremse? Für Alfons Weichenrieder, Universität Frankfurt, liegt der Verdacht nahe – so ökonomisch sinnvoll im Einzelfall der Einsatz eines Public Private...

Aktuelle Zahlen von EUROSTAT zeigen, dass die ostdeutschen Bundesländer in der kommenden EU-Strukturfondsförderperiode 2014 bis 2020 ihren Status als EU-Höchstfördergebiete verlieren werden. Der Direktionsbezirk Leipzig könnte sogar jegliche Förderberechtigung verlieren, da das...

Im Zeitraum 1992 bis 2005 waren die öffentlichen nfrastrukturinvestitionen in Deutschland rückläufig, danach stiegen sie wieder leicht an. Es stellt sich daher die Frage, ob es sich bei dem Rückgang um eine für entwickelte Volkswirtschaften wie Deutschland typische und deshalb...

Urban peripheries in many developing countries lack basic local public goods like street pavement, water, sewerage and electricity. We design an experiment of street pavement provision in a Mexican urban area and estimate impacts on a set of indicators obtained from a household survey. Our...

The present study jointly determines the impact of rural infrastructure on the decision to choose between farm and non-farm enterprises vis-à-vis income by Bangladeshi rural households (4,195 households from 139 villages) using a bivariate Tobit model. The model diagnostic reveals that the...

While the importance of physical infrastructure in the development of secondary sector of the Indian economy is acknowledged, there is little or no empirical study to validate its role at the state-level. This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the relationship between development of...

This paper presents empirical evidence on how telecommunications infrastructure is related to economic growth in a panel dataset covering 44 African countries for the period from 1990 to 2010. A dynamic panel data approach model is employed, which suggests that telecommunications contribute in a...