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Governance and the City: An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance

Kaufmann, Daniel; Leautier, Frannie; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2004

infrastructure service delivery), as well as other relevant city characteristics. This city database, encompassing hundreds of cities … of delivery of infrastructure services. We also find that globalization and good city governance are significantly …

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Market integration for agricultural output markets in Peru: the role of public infrastructure

Escobal, Javier; Vásquez, Arturo - EconWPA - 2005

This paper shows the impact that investment in infrastructure may have on the efficiency of agricultural products …

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New Estimates of Government Net Capital Stocks for 22 OECD Countries 1960-2001

Kamps, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a …

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Modi di pensare e vedere la città mediterranea

Giuseppe, Pace - EconWPA - 2003

This essay attempt to summarise what is known about the mediterranean cities and their relationship to the so-called Global Cities, principally based on immaterial fluxes, which offer a growing centrality to cities networks and communication systems. A new dualism has sprung, global/local,...

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Is Public R&D a Complement or Substitute for Private R&D? A Review of the Econometric Evidence

David, Paul A.; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Toole, Andrew A. - EconWPA - 2000

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Public Inputs and Productivty in the Agricultural Sector: A Dynamic Dual Approach

Onofri, Alejandro; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper introduces a dynamic model of productivity measurement based on recent endogenous growth theories. The model … presented in this study is based on dynamic duality theory and incorporate public goods (public capital and R&D) as external … permits deriving testable hypotheses related to the two conditions of endogenous growth theory mentioned above. The model is …

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A MODEL OF CORRUPTION IN AN INVESTMENT PROJECT

Sikdar, Soumyen; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

The present paper analyzes the phenomenon of corruption in the context of a Public Works Department (PWD) in a developing country city and examines its tenacity in the face of anticorruption measures. Different behaviour patterns of the supervisor (official) of the PWD have been considered. The...

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SOCIALIST PRIVATIZATION: RESPONSE

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005

In earlier papers on “Socialist privatization” Feige proposed a sequential set of stabilization, privatization and liberalization policies designed to provide the necessary, albeit not sufficient conditions, for a transition from a planned to a market economy. An important component of the...

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The effect of inequality on growth: Theory and evidence from the Indian states

Ghosh, Sugata; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the effect of inequality on growth among the sub- national states in India. Theoretically, growth of the regional economy is driven by productive public investment in the provision of health and education services financed by a linear output tax, and the optimum tax rate is...

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Political Economy of Electricity Reform: A Case Study in Gujarat, India

Hansen, Christopher Joshi; Bower, John - EconWPA - 2004

In India, the supply of electricity relies heavily on a virtually bankrupt and sometimes corrupt system of state electricity boards (SEBs), which have failed to bring electricity to approximately 40% of rural households. High subsidy levels to agriculture and domestic customers and widespread...

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