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infrastructure in 38 African countries over the period 2000-2020. Telecommunications, trade/transport-related, and port … services value-added. Our empirical strategy revealed that regardless of the infrastructure indicator used in the estimate … infrastructure in the continent. Capital formation increases trade/transport-related and reduces port infrastructure while population …
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Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic … effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT …)-based evaluation, is difficult in the context of large-scale infrastructure. Second, while micro studies so far have focused on the …
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. Bedouin households, especially in non-recognized villages, were found to have much less access to infrastructure compared to … mechanisms it seems that government intervention in infrastructure may yield a high social return and help interrupt the vicious …
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Endowment with infrastructure, human and cultural capital is highly significant for regional economic performance …
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The provision of transport infrastructure outside the most populated regions in Finland has been under budgetary … infrastructure (minimum) service level are discussed. In addition the study indicated the problems and trade-offs when bringing these …
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We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...
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Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since … the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present … paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure for trade by means of meta-analysis and meta-regression techniques …
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infrastructures. One product of this trend is the ‘inverse infrastructure,’ which refers to a modularized, semi-autonomous and user …-driven infrastructure that is a result of the self-organization of local actors. In this study, we discuss the nature of such … infrastructures and the challenges they pose to local infrastructure policy with special reference to the case of water cooperatives …
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In the last 15 years, Australian governments' infrastructure policy has shifted systematically from directly providing … virtually all infrastructure to creating competitive markets where competing public and private suppliers can provide … infrastructure efficiently. Wide ranging competition and structural reforms, particularly under National Competition Policy, have …
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This working paper assesses national policy and governance mechanisms that can influence green growth in Chinese cities. It applies the OECD conceptual framework for urban green growth to examine the potential challenges and opportunities for increasing economic growth through reducing the...
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