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This research study aimed to assesses the impact of infrastructure based on the evaluation of infrastructure provision … infrastructure financing in Georgia and outlines the importance of greater involvement of the private sector in infrastructure … for infrastructure projects by increasing the rate of return for private investors. …
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infrastructure on households' income. We analyzed the impacts of a rapid transit system in urban areas of Punjab Province, Pakistan … empirical results show a significant improvement in households' income after improvement in transport infrastructure. This … improvement and modernization of the transport infrastructure in urban areas of Punjab Province has increased households' income …
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Infrastructure development in Southeast Asia has been financed mainly by public funds, which leave wide gaps in … implementation is not limited to hard infrastructure only, but also to social infrastructure. …
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This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …
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Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization around the world in recent decades. How do these assets …
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I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented (i …. Failing to take the implementation phase into account could severely bias the welfare evaluation of infrastructure. …
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This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … millennia, although at times it has been pivotal in bringing innovation, taking risks and driving efficiency. It is argued that … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …
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, political, and governance variables to assess the determinants of private financing of infrastructure in emerging markets and … developing economies. Controlling for economic characteristics, we find that overall private participation of infrastructure … infrastructure. Our results do not vary when controlling for income inequality and across quartiles of experience, country wealth …
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Developing Asia's infrastructure gap results from both inadequate public resources and a lack of effective channel to … infrastructure gap. However, PPP projects are often at risk of becoming distressed or worst being terminated because of the long …
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The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth via various channels including reducing transaction costs and raising … productivity. Another mechanism emphasized in this paper is that infrastructure investment can promote urbanization through …
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