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needed. This paper focuses on transport infrastructure in Africa. The effects of better and longer roads are investigated in …Investment in infrastructure is considered as a crucial prerequisite for economic development. Given the scarce … resources for public investment in developing countries a detailed perspective on the effects of each form of infrastructure is …
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investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can …. Very high corruption has the potential to prevent positive effects from road infrastructure on transport costs or to even … reverse them. This paper contributes to the literature on infrastructure investment by introducing and applying an …
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We show with the aid of pooled OLS estimations that investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to … roads on transport costs or to even reverse them. This paper contributes to the literature on infrastructure investment by … sectoral differences concerning the impact of roads on transport costs. We conclude that investment in transport infrastructure …
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We show with the aid of pooled OLS estimations that investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to … costs or to even reverse them. This paper contributes to the literature on infrastructure investment by introducing and … concerning the impact of roads on transport costs. We conclude that investment in transport infrastructure can have substantial …
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We show with the aid of pooled OLS estimations that investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to … roads on transport costs or to even reverse them. This paper contributes to the literature on infrastructure investment by … sectoral differences concerning the impact of roads on transport costs. We conclude that investment in transport infrastructure …
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investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can …. Very high corruption has the potential to prevent positive effects from road infrastructure on transport costs or to even … reverse them. This paper contributes to the literature on infrastructure investment by introducing and applying an …
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significant and positive correlation between telecommunication infrastructures and regional growth in Africa, after controlling …
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As planned large investments in road infrastructure continue to be high on the agenda of many African countries, only … first presents data on the state of roads in Sub-Saharan Africa (length, density, condition) as well as on investments in …
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Recently, there has been a growing interest in newly developed econometric tools to conduct counterfactual analysis when a treated unit experiences a policy intervention, and an artificial control group has to be constructed. Adopting novel penalized synthetic control methods, we quantify the...
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