Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

Published: Jan 1, 2020
Abstract
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on remotely-sensed data, we analyze the effects of transport projects on the spatial distribution of economic activity within and between regions in a large number...
Paper Details
Title
Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries
Published Date
Jan 1, 2020
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