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, consumption, and infrastructure that stabilize urban-regional economies and determine development pathways. The framework is … rates of inward foreign direct investment, principally in speculative real estate ventures in the consumption regime … generate widespread formal employment and raise tax revenues for the infrastructure regime. The net result is a city …
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particular after the crisis of 2008-2009. Which are investment- and export-led growth, which implies slower growth of consumption … that are compatible with them are infrastructure, physical and institutional, investments supported by the EU and …
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This evaluation of the EU’s cooperation with the Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean region (EA-SA-IO) aims to: - Provide an overall and independent assessmentof the past and current cooperation. - Identify lessons learned and make recommendations to inform current and future...
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reliance on donor aid, and limited physical infrastructure and human capital. Policy choices to address some of these …
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that country’s focus on investing in infrastructure. In this white paper, we explore the importance of infrastructure in … the growth of East African countries, the role of pension funds in infrastructure development, the emergence of a new East … stimulating infrastructure growth in Chile as well as examining current prospects in the EAC countries, it has become apparent …
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Infrastructure is an important driving force for economic growth. It reduces trade and transaction costs and stimulates …, infrastructure is an important constraint in many African countries. Using firm-level data for East Africa, the paper reexamines the … relationship between firm performance and infrastructure. It is shown that labor costs are by far the most important to stimulate …
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Sound infrastructure is critical for growth in East Africa. During 1995-2005, improvements in infrastructure boosted …). Although power infrastructure sapped growth in other regions of Africa, it contributed 0.2 percentage points per year growth in … East Africa. If East Africa's infrastructure could be improved to the level of the strongest performing country in Africa …
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