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infrastructure in 38 African countries over the period 2000-2020. Telecommunications, trade/transport-related, and port … services value-added. Our empirical strategy revealed that regardless of the infrastructure indicator used in the estimate … infrastructure in the continent. Capital formation increases trade/transport-related and reduces port infrastructure while population …
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Nordroute in den russischen Zentralraum könnte die verbesserte Infrastruktur der Kernstrecke bedeutende Zeitersparnisse von über …The study concludes that Europe should respond to China's New Silk Road initiative with a coherent infrastructure … in particular needs an upgrading of its transport infrastructure. If this is achieved, the boost to incomes and living …
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Luisa Dörr prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in February 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of three distinct empirical essays...
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We examine how highway accessibility influences local employment outcomes. We exploit the stagewise expansion of the "Baltic Sea highway", the largest contiguous highway construction project in Germany since 1945. Results from difference-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show...
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country and year. However, transport-related infrastructure may be able to alleviate these disadvantages. …
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economy but also for human well-being. However, the investment gap in ICT infrastructure has been growing and is expected to … infrastructure is by creating a steady stream of income for the investors. We quantify the spillover effects of mobile network on tax … infrastructure in the national budget of India for 2022-2023. …
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I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented (i …. Failing to take the implementation phase into account could severely bias the welfare evaluation of infrastructure. …
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We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...
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Transport, social as well as some other types of infrastructure represent an important component of system … existing settlement system. There are only little doubts that the role of infrastructure in local and/or regional development … existing spatial distribution of infrastructure. The same – with even higher intensity – applies to also to post …
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The construction sector plays a key role in providing structures for economies. This paper surveys the literature on key issues pertaining to the construction sector. It starts by summarizing our knowledge about differences in unit costs across time and space. It then discusses key bottlenecks...
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