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This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People …. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both goals, yet the effects of different infrastructures on income … disparities at the city level remain undetermined. Using 10 city-level infrastructure indicators relating to sustainable urban …
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This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses road accessibility, transport corridors and checkpoints set up in border towns in West Africa. An innovative model shows that the population base of border towns could be 14% greater if there were no delays at border crossings. The...
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Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms … stimulate local infrastructure supply? And how do local efforts compare with national decisions of placing inter-regional trunk … infrastructure? In this paper, we examine how the combination of local and national infrastructure supply improve city …
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We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major … importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy …-makers to understand the intended, and potentially unintended, long run consequences of their infrastructure investment …
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The growing trend of urban city development requires various infrastructure investments, including water supply … potentially create a time delay in infrastructure investment and huge budget deficits. If these infrastructure investments were … financed by overseas investors, future exchange rate risks would have to be carried by infrastructure companies. This paper …
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This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on tax revenues and on the economy of the region. In 1991 …
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, safeguard land for utilities and physical infrastructure decades ahead, deliberately configures transport networks (including … planning and implementation have overly focused on housing and neglected other types of physical infrastructure. Moreover, the …
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Urban infrastructure investment is needed for both, mitigation of climate risks and improved urban resiliency … necessary and sufficient factors to economically favor climate-change resilient infrastructure in private investment decisions … of climate-resilient infrastructure. The Paris Agreement and other supra-local policies and actors including city …
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