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Digital transformations in developing economies : from first-mile infrastructure to end-user fingertips

Cariolle, Joël - 2026

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Partner of choice : Australian national interest in infrastructure development programs in Papua New Guinea

Pennington, Lucy - 2025

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The state of infrastructure in the proclaimed small harbours in enhancing livelihoods in South Africa

Maphumulo, Mashimane Njabulo; Masuku, Mfundo Mandla - 2025

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Making "strategic autonomy" rhyme with "fiscal austerity?" : unresolved conflicts of (geo)economic ideas in EU infrastructure policy

Abels, Joscha - 2025

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Shifting landscape of rural transformation in Bangladesh : exploring the interplay of non‐farm GDP, infrastructure and education

Saha, Subrata; Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; Abbasi, Al Amin Al - 2025

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A heterogeneous-agent model of growth and inequality for the UK : do planning and infrastructure matter? : a supplementary note

Minford, Patrick; Zhu, Zheyi - 2025

This paper builds on Yang et al (2021) which analysed the effect of wealth inequality on UK economic growth in recent decades with a heterogeneous-agent growth model where agents can enhance individual productivity growth by undertaking entrepreneurship. In this supplementary note we examine...

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Does infrastructure improve human well-being? : analysis of Japan's subnational human development Index (1960–2020)

Ishizuka, Fumiaki - 2025

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Wealth effect of asset securitization in real estate and infrastructure sectors : evidence from China

Kong, Wenkai; Huang, Juanjuan - 2025

We investigate the wealth effect of asset securitization in real estate and infrastructure sectors on issuing firms, based on data from 859 listed companies in China, the world's largest developing country. The data come from a manual match to securitization issuance records, spanning from 2014...

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The empty signifier of "connectivity" : how infrastructure reorders the world

Forough, Mohammadbagher; Fünfgeld, Anna - 2025

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Bridging the gap : how transport infrastructure reduces bilateral trade costs to fuel GDP growth

Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph; Bai, Yuting; Liu, Ligang; Wang, Shuo - 2025

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Impact of logistics on global economic growth : beta and sigma convergence during the period 2007-2022

Coto-Millán, Pablo; Saavedra, David Paz; De la Fuente, … - 2025

Background: Logistics plays a key role in economic performance, yet its contribution to global growth and convergence remains underexplored. This study examines how different logistics dimensions have influenced GDP per worker across countries over the period 2007-2022. Methods: Using...

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Local economic impacts of hydroelectric power plants : evidence from Brazil

Costa, Francisco; Szerman, Dimitri; Assunção, Juliano J. - 2025

This paper evaluates the short- and medium-run effects of large hydroelectric power plant (HPP) construction on the economic development of Brazilian municipalities. Using the synthetic control method, we estimate the effects for 82 municipalities affected by HPP construction between 2002 and...

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Mitigating operational risks in critical infrastructure through integrated ERP-BPMS : a multi-case study

Chernenko, Yuri; Bedrii, Dmytro; Haidaienko, Oksana; … - 2025

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Leapfrog logistics : digital trucking platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China

Wei, Wei; Nowak, Jörg; Rolf, Steve - 2024

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How should we measure infrastructure? : the case of highways and streets

Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2024

The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and streets. We compare BEA's capital measures with...

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How should we measure infrastructure? : the case of highways and streets

Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2022

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Constructing BEA highways and streets net wealth stocks with detailed types of investment and engineering-based estimates of depreciation

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Kornfeld, Robert - 2024

This paper builds on a previous paper by the authors (Kornfeld and Fraumeni, 2022) that primarily used U.S. Federal Highway Administration Highway Statistics data to disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types to produce updated estimates of net wealth stocks and...

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Ports vs. roads : infrastructure, market access and regional outcomes

Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2024 - This version: August 2024

What determines the relative gains from improving different parts of a transportation network? Ports and roads are key components of a country’s infrastructure to access international markets. I provide a framework to jointly estimate the quality of different ports and trade costs on normal...

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Ports vs. Roads: Infrastructure, Market Access and Regional Outcomes

Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2024

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Building up local productivity : infrastructure and firm dynamics in Mexico

Busso, Matias; Fentanes, Oscar - 2024

What determines the aggregate and distributional effects of new transportation infrastructure? One key overlooked channel is the role that infrastructure policy plays in changing the incentives of firms to enter, exit, and grow--in turn generating endogenous changes in local productivity. In...

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Mapping Africa's infrastructure potential with geospatial big data and causal ML

Krantz, Sebastian - 2024

Using rich geospatial data and causal machine learning (ML), this paper maps potential economic benefits from incremental investments in all major types of public and economic infrastructure across Africa. These 'infrastructure potential maps' cover all African populated areas at a spatial...

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Mapping Africa's infrastructure potential with geospatial big data and causal ML

Krantz, Sebastian - 2024

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Invisible frontlines : safeguarding the European energy infrastructure

Slakaityte, Veronika; Surwillo, Izabela - 2024

This report explores key challenges and priorities in safeguarding Europe's critical energy infrastructure against both physical and cyber threats amid rising geopolitical tensions. It follows recent sabotage incidents and the extensive development of new offshore energy infrastructure planned...

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Maintaining maintenance : the real effects of financial reporting for infrastructure

McDonough, Ryan P.; Yan, Claire J. - 2024

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Synthesizing the empirical evidence on the productivity of public capital in Japan : a meta-analysis

Ishizuka, Fumiaki - 2024

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The unintended consequences of infrastructure development

Bancalari, Antonella - 2024

I investigate the social costs imposed by poor implementation of public infrastructure. Focusing on the period from 2005 to 2015 in Peru, when the government embarked on a nationwide initiative to expand sewerage systems, I leverage quasi-random variation in initiation of the implementation...

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The unintended consequences of infrastructure development

Bancalari, Antonella - 2024

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Education versus infrastructure: is there a trade-off in an open economy with perfect capital mobility?

Konopczyński, Michał - 2024

We present an open economy growth model incorporating various elements of fiscal policy, including government expenditure on education and public capital (infrastructure), budget deficit, internal and external public debt, public consumption, and four tax rates. This detailed description of...

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Education versus infrastructure: Is there a trade-off in an open economy with perfect capital mobility?

Konopczyński, Michał - 2024

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Does the Belt and Road Initiative boost industrialization? Empirical evidence from African economies

Mohamed, Abas Omar - 2024

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Does the Belt and Road Initiative boost industrialization? : empirical evidence from African economies

Mohamed, Abas Omar - 2024

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A comparative analysis of the spillover effects from human capital skill and infrastructural development on industrial sector growth across sub-regional economies in sub-Saharan Africa

Keji, Sunday Anderu; Akinola, Gbenga Wilfred; … - 2024

Despite the sub-Saharan African (SSA) region's vast size in terms of human capital and physical capital resources, the industrial output growth in SSA still needs to catch up to the other regions. This is because of low productive skills and the dilapidated spread of infrastructural technology...

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The trade potential of infrastructure partnerships : the case of eu global gateway

Wolf, André; Poli, Eleonora - 2024

The EU's Global Gateway Initiative seeks to create new strategic partnerships by supporting infrastructure investments around the world. While much attention has been paid to its geopolitical implications, its long-term trade potential remains unexplored. This paper analyses the potential impact...

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The European Union's Global Gateway : an institutional and economic overview

Tagliapietra, Simone - 2024

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Public policy, economic growth and poverty alleviation : a study in the Indian States

Sasmal, Ritwik; Das, Pinaki; Sasmal, Joydeb - 2024

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Managing what you measure: Evidence from federal infrastructure surveys

Breuer, Matthias; Dong, Qingkai - 2026

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Dams and rural conflict: Evidence from Brazil's hydropower expansion

Corbi, Raphael Bottura; Falco, Chiara; Uberti, Luca J. - 2026

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Moral capital threshold in the effectiveness of ODA for social infrastructure

Vincent, Moses Owede; Greyling, Lorraine - 2026

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Extraction-by-design : auditing infrastructures of datafication in babytracking apps

Pybus, Jennifer; Matheson, Katrina Nicole; … - 2026

Millions of parents across Europe use mobile baby-tracking applications. These digital aides generate intimate data sets by accessing sensitive information about (un)born babies, pregnancies, and family caregiving routines. Crucially, the tracking infrastructures embedded in these apps enable...

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A heterogeneous-agent model of growth and inequality for the UK : what has caused the UKs growth collapse since 2008?

Minford, Patrick; Zhu, Zheyi - 2026

This paper builds on Yang et al. (2021). This analysed the e§ect on UK economic growth of wealth inequality and tax or regulative disincentives to entrepreneurs, over recent decades with a heterogeneousagent growth model where agents can enhance individual productivity growth by undertaking...

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Absent branches, digital presence : fintech and the reconfiguration of everyday debt in Nigeria

Jalal-Eddeen, Shuaib - 2026

This article examines how the absence of physical branches and embodied oversight in fintech reconfigures financial life in Nigeria. Based on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork in Jimeta, it shows that the absence of physical infrastructures and the dominance of virtual ones is not merely...

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Landscape of opportunities : Belize

Pecha, Camilo; Ochoa, Elizabeth - 2026

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Digital public infrastructure for our new era

Madgavkar, Anu; White, Olivia - 2026

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Roads to the market or the town hall? : new evidence from India's PMGSY

Kumar, Santosh; Shandal, Monica; Zucker, Ariel D. - 2026

We examine the impact of rural road connectivity on economic and novel governance outcomes in the context of the world's largest rural road program, India's PMGSY. Using a novel village-level survey designed around PMGSY's rollout, we exploit quasi-random variation in road placement to estimate...

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Towards a conceptual framework of hard and soft behaviour change interventions in sustainable transport

Nelson, John D.; Hensher, David A.; Mulley, Corinne; … - 2026

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Managing what you measure : evidence from federal infrastructure surveys

Breuer, Matthias; Dong, Qingkai - 2026

We study how federal information-collection requirements affect public infrastructure spending of local governments. Exploiting the introduction and revision of the federal survey on highway infrastructure, we find that county roads that are randomly sampled by the survey attract more local...

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Public capital stocks in dynamic fiscal competition

Pieretti, Patrice; Pulina, Giuseppe; Zou, Benteng - 2026

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Rethinking AI sovereignty: pathways to competitiveness through strategic investments : white paper

2026

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Geographical simulation analysis of Uzbekistan's international logistics strategy : corridor diversification to overcome the constraints of double landlocked geography

Kumagai, Satoru; Isono, Ikumo; Tsubota, Kenmei - 2026

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Crowding in or crowding out? : public and private investment in the Western Balkans

Gutzianas, Ioannis; Holzner, Mario; Jovanović, Branimir - 2026

This note examines whether public infrastructure investment crowds in private investment in the Western Balkans and how this relationship compares with the EU. Using Eurostat data for 2000-2024 and a sector-level analysis, it finds that higher public infrastructure investment is generally...

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Residential segregation and unequal access to local public services in India : evidence from 1.5m neighborhoods

Asher, Sam; Jha, Kritarth; Novosad, Paul; Adukia, Anjali; … - 2026

We study residential segregation and access to public services across 1.5 million urban and rural neighborhoods in India. Muslim and Scheduled Caste segregation in India is high by global standards, and only slightly lower than Black-White segregation in the U.S. Within cities, public facilities...

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Residential segregation and unequal access to local public services in India : evidence from 1.5m neighborhoods

Asher, Sam; Jha, Kritarth; Novosad, Paul; Adukia, Anjali; … - 2026

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Dams and rural conflict : evidence from Brazil's hydropower expansion

Corbi, Raphael Bottura; Falco, Chiara; Uberti, Luca J. - 2026

We estimate the impact of infrastructure investment on conflict using 163 hydroelectric dams in Brazil (2002–2022). Leveraging the staggered rollout of construction in a difference-in-differences framework, we find that dams trigger sharp, temporary surges in land invasions, water disputes,...

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Regionale Entwicklung und Vertrauen brauchen einen sichtbaren Staat vor Ort

Rösel, Felix - 2026

Wo Schulen, Kommunalverwaltungen und Krankenhäuser schließen, zieht sich der Staat aus der Fläche zurück. Dieser Rückzug kostet nicht nur gut bezahlte Jobs und Zukunftsperspektiven, sondern auch Vertrauen in den Staat, insbesondere in strukturschwachen Regionen. In diesem Beitrag zeige ich,...

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Anticiper et prévenir les risques liés au changement climatique, pour les infrastructures

2026

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China's infrastructure finance in Africa : Impacts and lessons

Foster, Vivien; Islam, Roumeen; Chen, Yunnan; … - 2026

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Why does UK infrastructure cost so much?

Winch, Graham - 2026

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