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Reliance on private partners to help provide infrastructure investment and service delivery is increasing in the United … States. Numerous studies have examined the determinants of the degree of private participation in infrastructure projects as … estimates indicate that infrastructure characteristics, particularly those that reflect “stand alone” versus network …
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Spain’s transport infrastructure policy has become a paradigmatic case of oversupply and of mismatch with demand. The … massive expansion of the country’s transport infrastructure over the last decade has not been a response to demand bottlenecks … areas, which could help improve the performance of Spain’s infrastructure policy. …
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Spain’s transport infrastructure policy has become a paradigmatic case of oversupply and of mismatch with demand. The … massive expansion of the country’s transport infrastructure over the last decade has not been a response to demand bottlenecks … areas, which could help improve the performance of Spain’s infrastructure policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750350
infrastructure, essentially access to basic urban services. The main contribution of the paper is to therefore provide empirical …
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This paper analyzes Spanish infrastructure policy since the early 1700s: Road building in the eighteenth century … twenty-first. The analysis reveals a long-term pattern, in which infrastructure policy in Spain has been driven not by the … national budget have regularly been used to decide the priorities regarding infrastructure creation and to fund the development …
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The Australian wheat industry has changed considerably in structure and governance during the past 15 years. The most important changes have been the deregulation of the domestic market and privitisation of the former Australian Wheat Board into AWB Limited. Through these changes growers have...
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, existing studies of the effects of infrastructure on NFRE may give incorrect inferences because they typically fail to account …
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Laos is a mountainous country with poor roads and a high rate of poverty incidence, especially in rural areas. It is obvious that better roads could reduce poverty, but by how much? And what forms of road improvement reduce poverty the most? The economic effects of road improvement are complex...
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Most studies analysing the infrastructure impact on regional growth show a positive relationship between both variables … reveals both the absence of a direct effect of infrastructure and the fact that the link between infrastructure and growth … depends on the level of the existing stock (threshold level) and the way infrastructure is articulated in its location …
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Over the past 220 years since European settlement, Australia has amassed a diverse array of historic heritage places. Currently there are approximately 200,000 places listed on statutory heritage lists across the nation. Owing to the public-good nature of heritage, community values for the...
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