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Capital markets, infrastructure investment and growth in the Asia Pacific region

Regan, Michael - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-28

This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure investment activity, capital market development, the role of public institutions and economic development in the Asia Pacific. It adopts a review approach drawing on empirical evidence over recent decades. Infrastructure is shown to be...

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Multilevel Assessment of Public Transportation Infrastructure : A Spatial Econometric Computable General Equilibrium Approach

Chen, Zhenhua - 2014

Impact assessment of transportation investment policy is a challenging task as assessment outcome is sensitive to various attributes such as methodology, time period, scale and location of analysis. This study is conducted to evaluate regional impact of public transportation infrastructure in...

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Contrasting Giants : Demographic Change and Economic Performance in China and India

Tyers, Rod; Golley, Jane - 2011

The timing of China’s and India’s demographic transitions and the implications of alternative fertility scenarios are … China will be comparatively flat, the positive contribution of declining youth dependency to real per capita income will not …

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Demographic Dividends, Dependencies and Economic Growth in China and India

Golley, Jane - 2012

China's demographic dividend now lies in the past, alternative assumptions about future trends in fertility and labor force … participation rates are used to demonstrate that China will not necessarily enter a period of “demographic taxation” for at least … another decade, if not longer. In contrast with China, much of India's potential demographic dividend lies in waiting for the …

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Transaction Cost Economics Perspectives on Indonesian Public-Private Partnership (PPP) : Case Study on Umbulan Water Supply System PPP (Working Paper)

Wijanarko, Nadia; Ye, Zhen (Peter) - 2023

existing theory in transaction cost in the Indonesian PPP context. Umbulan WSS was chosen as the subject of the case study. It …

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Ready for take-off? : the economic effects of regional airport expansion

Breidenbach, Philipp - 2015

This paper analyzes whether the expansion of regional airports in Germany caused positive spillover effects on the surrounding economies, exploiting the deregulation of the European aviation market as a quasi-experiment. Such potential spillovers are often used as an argument for the substantial...

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The impacts of infrastructure in development : a selective survey

Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2015

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, while proper identification of the causal effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is...

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Infrastructure Investment and GDP Growth : A Meta-Regression Analysis

Josheski, Dushko - 2011

The infrastructure investment effects on GDP growth have been of interest to economists and policy makers in the past 20 years. Around thirty studies have investigated the effect of infrastructure investment on the growth of GDP, resulting in 346 point estimates of the effect. Meta-regression...

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Infrastructure’s Role in Sustaining Asia’s Growth

Brooks, Douglas - 2012

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, policies, and political economy of infrastructure investment, and a review of empirical literature of the relationship between growth and infrastructure. Empirical estimations using the growth accounting framework for a panel of 123...

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Efficient Energy Investment and Fiscal Adjustment in Senegal

Issoufou, Salifou - 2014

Senegal's fiscal deficit and public debt have been on the rise in recent years owing partly to an ailing and inefficient oil-based energy sector. In this paper we use a two-sector, open-economy, dynamic general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of varying fiscal policy instruments one...

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