Lall, Somik V.; Wang, Hyoung Gun; Deichmann, Uwe - 2010
Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms … competitiveness, measured as the city's share of national private investment. For the empirical analysis, we collect city-level data …, and drainage - enhance competitiveness, but their impacts are much smaller. Thus, while local efforts are important for …