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Optimal investments in Africa's road network
Krantz, Sebastian - 2024
This paper characterizes economically optimal investments into Africa's road network in partial and general equilibrium - based on a detailed topography of the network, road construction costs, frictions in cross-border trading, and economic geography. Drawing from data on 144 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052413
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Comparative advantages of free trade port construction in shanghai under the belt and road initiative
Hu, Hao; Wang, Shufang; He, Jin-liao - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 8 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-16
As China's opening-up grows wider under the Belt and Road Initiative, the exploration and construction of free trade ports have received increasing attention. In 2018, China's first free trade port was settled in Hainan instead of Shanghai. In 2019, after the Lingang New Area of China (Shanghai)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168952
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Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization : global analysis at the grid cell level
Motamed, Mesbah J.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Masters, … - 2014
This paper addresses the timing of a location's historical transition from rural to urban activity. We test whether urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide data that divide the earth's surface at half-degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226975
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Political actions oriented to territorial development : the multifunctional role of agriculture
Calabrò, Grazia; Vieri, Simone - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015), pp. 1346-1358
classified as rural, it is indispensable to think up models of development whose main reference point is agriculture. Agriculture … producer of goods and promoter of a socio-cultural and environmental context. Agriculture is not a separate sector but an … action aimed at endorsing the multifunctional role of agriculture and to underline how agriculture operating in an integrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825331
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Klimaanpassung in Land- und Forstwirtschaft : Ergebnisse eines Workshops der Ressortforschungsinstitute FLI, JKI und Thünen-Institut
Schimmelpfennig, Sonja; Heidecke, Claudia; Beer, Holger; … - 2018
departmental research and the future challenges of adaptation to climate change in German agriculture and forestry. German … agriculture and forestry is affected by primary climate impacts such as steadily rising average temperatures, altered …, secondary climate impacts such as increased pest and infection pressure, problems with controlling rodents in agriculture and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793933
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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity : the Bayesian perspective
Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018
Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821443
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Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level
Motamed, Mesbah J.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Masters, … - 2014
This paper addresses the timing of a location's historical transition from rural to urban activity. We test whether urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide data that divide the earth's surface at half-degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328318
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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity: The Bayesian perspective
Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018
Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943852
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The impact of improved transport connectivity on income, education, and health: The case of the roll-on/roll-off system in the Philippines
Francisco, Kris; Helble, Matthias - 2017
This paper studies the impacts of providing an efficient and affordable transport system within a country through the experience of the Philippines. In 2003 the roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) policy was implemented to provide an integrated mode of inter-island transfer. We offer three analyses that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944176
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Political Actions Oriented to Territorial Development: The Multifunctional Role of Agriculture
Calabrò, Grazia; Vieri, Simone - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 17 (2015) Special No. 9, pp. 1346-1358
classified as rural, it is indispensable to think up models of development whose main reference point is agriculture. Agriculture … producer of goods and promoter of a socio-cultural and environmental context. Agriculture is not a separate sector but an … action aimed at endorsing the multifunctional role of agriculture and to underline how agriculture operating in an integrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725008