This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …

This paper aims to describe the regional configuration of Brazil’s productive structure in 1959, a crucial moment in … is the oldest of its kind for Brazil and is made available to other researchers. Hence, it can be an important tool for …

This article reviews the literature analysing the importance of infrastructure for economic growth, and performs an …-service infrastructures (roads, electricity and telecommunications) are important in explaining temporary differences in regional output, in … development of projects that help to reduce the infrastructure disparities that hinder the development of Peru's regions. …

Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to …

This paper aims at describing the regional configuration of 1959 Brazil's productive structure through the estimation … of an Inter-State Input-Output system. The estimated matrix is the oldest of this kind for Brazil. It can, hence, be an …

low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and … skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that cities in the south of Brazil are more effective engines of upward … prevalent in the cities of southern Brazil than in northern cities. This segregation, which can decline with specialization and …

Transport, social as well as some other types of infrastructure represent an important component of system … existing settlement system. There are only little doubts that the role of infrastructure in local and/or regional development … existing spatial distribution of infrastructure. The same - with even higher intensity - applies to also to post …