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This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People …'s Republic of China. Recent policies target reductions in income inequality while increasing sustainable urban development …. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both goals, yet the effects of different infrastructures on income …
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This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses road accessibility, transport corridors and checkpoints set up in border towns in West Africa. An innovative model shows that the population base of border towns could be 14% greater if there were no delays at border crossings. The...
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The paper examines the politics of infrastructure in the post-privatisation era. It shows the tensions between the … collectively underpin the operation of liveable sustainable cities. The paper traces the intrinsic role of infrastructure as a … infrastructure funding. Implications are drawn for urban planning and design …
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We develop a model in which public capital is both an engine of growth and a determinant of the distributions of wealth, income, and welfare. Government investment increases wealth inequality over time, regardless of its financing. The time path of income inequality is, however, highly sensitive...
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The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … lessons from the PRC have implications for infrastructure financing. On the one hand, recent reforms have allowed the market … infrastructure investment and the productivity of the economy. On the other hand, evidence in the PRC suggests a cross …
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. We propose and explore the concept of carbon-smart green infrastructure (carbon-smart UGI) for bridging the policy …, and transformational dimensions of urban green infrastructure. Core meanings associated with carbon-smartness emphasize …
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Calderon and Serven provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on economic growth and … include, among the regressors, infrastructure quantity and quality indicators, in addition to standard controls. To account … for the potential endogeneity of infrastructure (as well as that of other regressors), the authors use a variety of …
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-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … Asia region's rates of access to infrastructure (sanitation, electricity, telecom, and transport) are closer to those of … of access across time, that is, across generations. It finds that while the regressivity of infrastructure services is …
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Sustainable Infrastructure in Shrinking Cities: Options for the Future is a research project completed by the Center … infrastructure in shrinking cities. It presents findings from a series of interviews with infrastructure management professionals …
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