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Farther on Down the Road: Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Storeygard, Adam - Department of Economics, Tufts University
transport costs of -0.25 at that distance. Moreover, the effect differs by the surface of roads between cities. Cities connected … to the port by paved roads are chiefly affected by transport costs to the port, while cities connected to the port by … unpaved roads are more affected by connections to secondary centers. …
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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226698
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Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Drehery, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230114
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Aglomerações urbanas no Brasil e na América do sul: Trajetórias e novas configurações
Moura, Rosa; Pêgo Filho, Bolívar - 2016
the cities and towns and economic infrastructure , and existing urban social-including logistic networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516704
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Aglomerações urbanas no Brasil e na América do sul : trajetórias e novas configurações
Moura, Rosa; Pêgo Filho, Bolívar - 2016
the cities and towns and economic infrastructure , and existing urban social-including logistic networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489997
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Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227684
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Connective Financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Drehery, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230958
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A Century of the Evolution of the Urban System in Brazil
Matlaba, Valente J.; Holmes, Mark; McCann, Philip; … - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2011
In this paper, we study the hitherto unexplored evolution of the size distribution of 185 urban areas in Brazil between …
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Spatial income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2000
Reis, Eustáquio José - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 2, pp. 119-140
The paper provides historical perspectives on spatial economic inequalities in Brazil making use of a database on …
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Long-Term Effects of the Inca Road
Franco, Ana Paula; Galiani, Sebastian; Lavado, Pablo - 2021
The Inca Empire was the last of a long series of highly developed cultures in pre-colonial South America. It stretched across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road was its 30,000-kilometer-long transportation system....
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