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This paper documents the potential employment and other value-added benefits of infrastructure investments in Ontario …. In particular, it details the impact of infrastructure investment as a counter-cyclical fiscal policy tool. A review of … the recent literature reveals that infrastructure investment serves both as a tool for job creation and as a stimulus for …
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Good infrastructure is linked to economic growth and development, without deny. The study explores five problematic … infrastructure factors affecting development in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean nation has been struggling to recover from economic crisis … which has bedevilled the economy for quite a long time. The study identified and discussed five problematic infrastructure …
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Recently, there has been a growing interest in newly developed econometric tools to conduct counterfactual analysis when a treated unit experiences a policy intervention, and an artificial control group has to be constructed. Adopting novel penalized synthetic control methods, we quantify the...
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … infrastructure threshold of 2.583 indicating that countries with governance and infrastructure level higher than these values tend to … infrastructure), the established thresholds are low and situated between the 5 th and the 10th percentiles. Countries identified …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure moderate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … governance threshold of -1.210 and an infrastructure threshold of 2.583, indicating that countries with governance and … infrastructure levels higher than these values tend to benefit much more from the wealth of natural resources. With high levels of …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … infrastructure threshold of 2.583 indicating that countries with governance and infrastructure level higher than these values tend to … infrastructure), the established thresholds are low and situated between the 5th and the 10th percentiles. Countries identified below …
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In this article, we analyze extended periods of growth in Africa based on panel estimations from 27 African countries …
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Sub-Saharan Africa has grown at record figures since the mid-1990s, generating optimism that the continent has finally … acceleration. We use the methodology developed by Arbache and Page (2007a) and find evidence that Africa has indeed been …
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green growth (IGG) in Africa. Our contribution is novel from both the conceptual and empirical perspectives. With regard to …
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