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Downsized, restructured and greener (2019-23): A new era for China's New Silk Road?

Barisitz, Stephan - 2024

This study focuses on the most recent development of Chinese overseas investment and construction and of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2019-23, from a project-oriented perspective. As a source we use data of the China Global Investment Tracker (CGIT) of the American Enterprise Institute....

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On The Advantages of Piecemeal Integration: A model of trade with several countries where local integration benefits all

Hansen, Bodil O.; Keiding, Hans - 2005

For the study of economic integration, it is costumary to use a three countryworld, where two of the countries may introduce forms of closer economic cooperation. In the present model, we follow this tradition but put special emphasis on the role of credit and entrepreneurship. Our model is of...

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Trade effects of transportation infrastructure among CAREC countries

Baniya, Suprabha; Taniguchi, Kiyoshi - 2022

(ADB) in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program. To do this, we applied a combination of geographic …-funded transportation reforms in the CAREC program. Then, using econometric analyses, we examine the direct impacts of transport time on the …-part model, we find that the ADB transportation reforms in CAREC countries increase the trade values for existing exporters by 3 …

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Transport infrastructure for MED11 countries

Carruthers, Robin - 2012

Lack of adequate infrastructure is a significant inhibitor to increased trade of the countries of the Mediterranean region. Bringing their transport infrastructure to standards comparable with countries of a similar per capita GDP will be costly but worthwhile. We compare the current quantities...

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Roads for Asian Integration: Measuring ADB's Contribution to the Asian Highway Network

Madhur, Srinivasa; Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Darjes, Peter - 2009

Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) programs. It also finds that ADB road investment has made a significant …

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Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia: A Bangladesh country study

Rahman, Mustafizur; Moazzem, Khondaker Golam; … - 2014

Economic integration is being inhibited by the poor state of transport connectivity between Bangladesh, and South Asia and Southeast Asia. This study reviews connectivity initiatives of Bangladesh and the two neighboring regions and proposes ways to deepen regional and interregional...

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...

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Fast tracking the SADC integration agenda to unlock regional collaboration gains along growth corridors in Southern Africa

Habiyaremye, Alexis - 2020

Despite more than two decades of economic integration efforts, levels of spatial development inequality remain high within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Owing to persistent delays in the implementation of the SADC integration agenda, infrastructure connectivity is still...

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Beyond the remittances-driven economy: Notes as if the long run mattered

Medalla, Felipe M.; Fabella, Raul V.; de Dios, Emmanuel S. - 2014

This paper discusses the causes and consequences of the current trend in which a principal driver of growth is inward remittances by workers deployed overseas. The main benefit of the phenomenon is an easing of the fiscal burden arising from the effectively large transfer from workers to the...

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High-speed railway, market access, and economic growth

Chen, Liangheng; Xiong, Junke - 2018

This paper establishes a general equilibrium trade model and adopts the "market access" approach to measure the impact of the high-speed railway (HSR) network on the economic growth of 110 of the main prefecture-level cities of the People's Republic of China, for which we manually collect the...

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