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, improvements in physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and financing infrastructure play an important role … Thailand's intra-regional trade, physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and infrastructure funding as … examines the current financing mechanism of Thailand's infrastructure projects that relies heavily on public spending. The …
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Investment in infrastructure for increasing trade and connectivity in South Asia and Southeast Asia has been impacted … investments of an estimated $3.6 trillion by 2020 for financing of its infrastructure and connectivity projects. Increased …, such economic integration faces a multitude of challenges relating to cross-border infrastructure links, weak trade …
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This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …
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This paper examines the effects of infrastructure projects on economic performance by studying the changes in … from business activities, and total revenue, because they reflect the economic performance that the infrastructure … investment creates. To investigate the impacts of infrastructure projects, we utilize the difference-in-difference (DID) method …
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This research study aimed to assesses the impact of infrastructure based on the evaluation of infrastructure provision … infrastructure financing in Georgia and outlines the importance of greater involvement of the private sector in infrastructure … for infrastructure projects by increasing the rate of return for private investors. …
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The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth via various channels including reducing transaction costs and raising … productivity. Another mechanism emphasized in this paper is that infrastructure investment can promote urbanization through …
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This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure investment activity, capital market development, the role … evidence over recent decades. Infrastructure is shown to be an important asset class playing a central role in a nation …’s output, growth, productivity and microeconomic performance. Infrastructure investment also requires investment and …
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Faced with historically low interest rates, investors are looking further into illiquid assets such as infrastructure … analyzes the key performance and risk characteristics of the EDHECinfra global unlisted infrastructure equity index when … compared to the main global listed infrastructure indices during the 2001-2018 period. The descriptive statistics method is …
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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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The provisioning of adequate infrastructure may be seen as a key contributing factor in the industrialization process … infrastructure on economic growth, productivity and income inequality, estimates of the effect on infrastructure on manufacturing …-Saharan African countries over the 1980-2012 period. Our findings suggest a positive effect of infrastructure provisioning on …
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