Search Results - subject:"Infrastructure development"

Improving Logistics Costs for Transportation and Trade Facilitation

Gonzalez, Julio A.; Guasch, José Luis; Serebrisky, Tomás - 2012

Access to basic infrastructure services - roads, electricity, water, sanitation - and the efficient provision of the services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural communities in Latin America live on average 5 kilometers...

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Road Network Upgrading and Overland Trade Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa

Buys, Piet; Deichmann, Uwe; Wheeler, David - 2012

Recent research suggests that isolation from regional and international markets has contributed significantly to poverty in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Numerous empirical studies identify poor transport infrastructure and border restrictions as significant deterrents to trade expansion....

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Sustainable infrastructure development challenges through PPP procurement process : Indian perspective

Agarchand, Nilesh; Laishram, Boeing - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 10 (2017) 3, pp. 642-662

Purpose Infrastructure development through public-private partnership (PPP) route in India has exhibited concerns about … the literature and interview source was used to identify the challenges encountered in sustainable infrastructure … development of PPP projects. These challenges were, first, reviewed from the perspectives of key sustainability principles and …

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Investigating the interlinkages between infrastructure development, poverty and rural–urban income inequality : Evidence from BRICS nations

Chotia, Varun; Rao, N.V.M. - In: Studies in Economics and Finance 34 (2017) 4, pp. 466-484

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between infrastructure development, rural … long-run relationship among infrastructure development, poverty and rural–urban inequality. The PDOLS results suggest that … both infrastructure development and economic growth lead to poverty reduction in BRICS. However, rural–urban income …

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An empirical investigation of the link between infrastructure development and poverty reduction : The case of India

Chotia, Varun; Rao, N.V.M. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 12, pp. 1906-1918

Purpose India is a developing nation where the marginal benefit of infrastructure development is tremendous. The … purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between infrastructure development and poverty reduction for India using … represents infrastructure development. The authors provide evidence on the link between infrastructure development and poverty …

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