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Poor domestic transportation infrastructure in developing countries is often cited as an important impediment for … accessing international markets. Yet, evidence on how transportation infrastructure improvements affect the volume and …. Two results emerge. First, we estimate that this road infrastructure project accounts for 15 percent of the export …
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The effects of foreign aid on the endowment of recipient countries with infrastructure have received surprisingly …-in-difference-in-differences estimations, with the treatment defined as steep increases in aid for infrastructure since a distinct change in donor behavior in … 2005. Mitigating endogeneity concerns in this way, we consistently find aid for infrastructure to be ineffective in …
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This paper investigates the relationship between taxation and firm performance in developing countries. Taking firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) and tax data from the Government Revenue Dataset (ICTD/UNU-WIDER), our results suggest that tax revenue benefits to firm...
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, safeguard land for utilities and physical infrastructure decades ahead, deliberately configures transport networks (including … planning and implementation have overly focused on housing and neglected other types of physical infrastructure. Moreover, the …
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, improvements in physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and financing infrastructure play an important role … Thailand's intra-regional trade, physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and infrastructure funding as … examines the current financing mechanism of Thailand's infrastructure projects that relies heavily on public spending. The …
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Investment in infrastructure for increasing trade and connectivity in South Asia and Southeast Asia has been impacted … investments of an estimated $3.6 trillion by 2020 for financing of its infrastructure and connectivity projects. Increased …, such economic integration faces a multitude of challenges relating to cross-border infrastructure links, weak trade …
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