Search Results - subject:"Infrastructure development"

Factors influencing the patronage of flexible transport in urban and rural areas : a case study in NSW, Australia

Loyola, Miguel; Nelson, John D.; Clifton, Geoffrey; Ho, … - In: Research in transportation economics 99 (2023), pp. 1-6

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Unravelling the encumbrances in procurement management of Nigeria's infrastructure development : pitfalls and prospects of projects

Ebekozien, Andrew; Samsurijan, Mohamad Shaharudin; … - In: Property management 41 (2023) 1, pp. 20-40

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More Roads or Public Transit? Insights from Measuring City-Center Accessibility

Conwell, Lucas J.; Eckert, Fabian; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We propose a theory-inspired measure of the accessibility of a city's center: the size of the surrounding area from which it can be reached within a specific time. Using publicly available optimal-routing software, we compute these "accessibility zones" for the 109 largest US and European...

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Infrastructure and intra-regional trade in Africa

Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Verena; Ongono, Patrice Bonaventure; … - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 46 (2023) 2, pp. 453-471

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Analysis of the two-way causal nexus between macroeconomic factors and infrastructure development : the experience of selected African countries

Azolibe, Chukwuebuka Bernard - In: Journal of economic and administrative sciences 39 (2023) 2, pp. 322-339

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The Process of Economic Development in West Sichuan: The Case of Daocheng County

Holz, Carsten A. - 2020

Economic development of a remote, mountainous region is a challenge for any country. This paper examines how this development challenge has been addressed in a high-altitude backward region of the People's Republic of China. Is this region increasingly being left behind or has it entered a...

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Fiscal vulnerability and transport infrastructure development in Nigeria

Oseni, Isiaq O.; Adekunle, Ibrahim A.; Ogunade, Ayomide O. - 2020

solutions to the problems of transport infrastructure development in Nigeria informed the need to regress indices of fiscal … vulnerability on the indicator of transport infrastructure development in Nigeria from 1986 through 2017 using the dynamic ordinary … on transport infrastructure development in Nigeria. Based on the findings of the study, itis recommended that government …

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Decentralized infrastructure development in the Philippines: Constraints, governance, and regulation in water

Canlas, Dante B.; Debuque-Gonzales, Margarita - 2020

This chapter discusses infrastructure development in the Philippines under decentralization using illustrations mainly …, decentralized infrastructure development can take off, guided by an effective division of labor between the national government and …

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Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing

Hornbeck, Richard - 2020

We examine impacts of market integration on the development of American manufacturing, as railroads expanded through the latter half of the 19th century. Using new county-by-industry data from the Census of Manufactures, we estimate substantial impacts on manufacturing productivity from relative...

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Infrastructure Development in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Scorecard

Calderón, César A. - 2020

adequate supply of infrastructure can help foster growth in the region. This paper provides a scorecard on infrastructure … development in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decades along four sectors (telecommunications, electric power, transportation …

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