in particular needs an upgrading of its transport infrastructure. If this is achieved, the boost to incomes and living … standards would be particularly significant in that part of the continent, as a 'big push' in transport infrastructure … Nordroute in den russischen Zentralraum könnte die verbesserte Infrastruktur der Kernstrecke bedeutende Zeitersparnisse von über …

, infrastructure finance is among the most complex and challenging areas in the global financial architecture. Ingo Walter, Professor …Infrastructure and its effects on economic growth, social welfare, and sustainability receive a great deal of attention … today. There is widespread agreement that infrastructure is a key dimension of global development and that its impact …

transportation infrastructure enhances international trade more than internal trade and this result is robust to various estimation … infrastructure has a non-negative effect on internal trade. Further quantitative analysis suggests 10% increase in transportation …---transportation infrastructure in a commonly used fixed effect gravity estimation. Guided by this new theoretical framework, this paper shows that …

We show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another in the … aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly …

movement of goods, labor and capital. Twenty five years later, CIS countries still face important trade policy choices the … implementation of which is conditional on the quality of governance and infrastructure. The evaluation of these policy choices gains … the gravity model of trade using alternative estimation approaches that account for zeros in trade: Heckman, Poisson …

Sound infrastructure is fundamental for growth across the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). During … 1995-2005, improvements in infrastructure boosted growth in Central Africa by 1 percentage point per capita annually …