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As India is projected to be the world’s most populous country by 2025, the growing needs of the economy, with expanding … population, in the recent years have placed intense stress on physical infrastructure. In order to meet the deficit in the … provision of infrastructure, mid-term appraisal of the twelfth plan suggests that to attain 9 percent real Gross Domestic …
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This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure investment activity, capital market development, the role … evidence over recent decades. Infrastructure is shown to be an important asset class playing a central role in a nation …’s output, growth, productivity and microeconomic performance. Infrastructure investment also requires investment and …
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Why do governments in developing economies invest in roads and not enough in schools? In the presence of distortionary taxation and debt aversion, the different pace at which roads and schools contribute to economic growth turns out to be central to this decision. Specifically, while costs are...
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in energy and infrastructure in scenarios with varying degrees of debt finance and with different types of supporting … non-energy infrastructure. These programs lead to much higher real wages and real GDP while keeping public debt …
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needing to fill infrastructure gaps and build resilience. This paper proposes a bottom-up approach to assess large public …
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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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Condemned bridges, dilapidated school buildings, contaminated water supplies, and other infrastructure shortcomings … infrastructure projects that is designed to have minimal effect on the federal budget and to promote sound fiscal operation. Federal … such projects, achieve needed improvements in the nation's infrastructure, and thereby contribute to the American economy …
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Liberia is facing large infrastructure gaps and developmental needs that constrain the country's growth potential. The … investment in infrastructure and human capital. Fiscal space remains constrained by rigidities in current spending and the …
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will of countries on the one hand, and their respective infrastructure - on the other. Reasoning of the assessment methods … to evaluate the progress on integration of securities market infrastructure is one of the most pressing issues facing the … market infrastructure in the EU countries enhances the convergence of average transactions size on organised markets …
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Examining the value-added link between infrastructure and industrialization is fundamental to achieving Sustainable … Development Goal (SDG) 9, which consists of building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable … infrastructure and the specific transmission channel considered. For instance, the indirect effect through the interaction of …
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