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This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People …'s Republic of China. Recent policies target reductions in income inequality while increasing sustainable urban development …. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both goals, yet the effects of different infrastructures on income …
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Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has … resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both hard and soft infrastructure on trade … improvements in transport infrastructure (i.e., the road density network, air transport, railways, ports, and logistics) have …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of infrastructure on trade in the case of Central Asian countries …. Infrastructure is measured by the aspects of quality and quantity in three Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic … and quantity of infrastructure in Central Asia have a positive impact on trade flows. However, estimations by country …
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Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic … effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT …)-based evaluation, is difficult in the context of large-scale infrastructure. Second, while micro studies so far have focused on the …
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decomposition frameworks to data from the People's Republic of China yield various interesting findings and more importantly …
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This paper analyzes consumption risk sharing among provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) during 1980 - 2007 …
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The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth via various channels including reducing transaction costs and raising … productivity. Another mechanism emphasized in this paper is that infrastructure investment can promote urbanization through …
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's Republic of China (PRC). The analysis is extended to investigate the impacts of the infrastructure on non-bank loans. The … adequate infrastructure exists within their community. This study uses data from the 2013 Chinese Household Finance Survey to … investigate how the infrastructure affects the usage of formal bank loans for both urban and rural households in the People …
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The significance of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) for Europe is increasing … infrastructure and to date have limited access to EU grants. The economic effects of infrastructure projects in CESEE would, however …. EU initiatives presented in 2018 may help to increase complementarity between Chinese and European infrastructure …
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High-quality infrastructure will boost regional economic development and reduce poverty and income inequality. The … spill-over effects created by this high-quality infrastructure will be seen in the form of an increase in gross domestic … product and tax revenue in the region. These positive effects can be utilized to address the gap between infrastructure demand …
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