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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Public Investment"”.
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Essays In Mortgage Markets And Public Investment Cycles
… system for economic growth-enhancing public investment since it reduces the likelihood and size of coalition governments. Chapter 1 investigates how statistical discrimination by lenders, a tool that separates borrowers who differ in search intensity, affects welfare and monetary …
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Essays on Public Investment and Regional Economic Performance
… crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of public investment has regained central importance in the European economic agenda. The renewed focus on large-scale investment programmes—such as the EU Cohesion Policy and NextGenerationEU—reflects a broader shift toward using public spending not …
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Social discount rates and welfare weights for public investment decisions in Turkey
… rate (SDR) to be used in the evaluation of public sector projects and the application of regional welfare weights (RWW) to facilitate the implementation of regional development policy in Turkey. The issue of an appropriate SDR and a set of RWW is particularly important for Turkey since the …
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Promoting economic development in poor countries : the role of developed country public investment corporations
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science; and, Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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A Critical Study of the Accounting and Economic Evaluation of Mexican Public Investment Projects in Roads and Irrigation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T13:33:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606925.pdf: 8381411 bytes, checksum: b00eb2e3461f1b98f77b5802126226c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Public pension funds and socially responsible investment in South Africa: a case study of the Public Investment Corporation
Socially responsible investment (SRI) and now commonly known as sustainable responsible investment is starting to gain a momentum in South Africa among asset owners and managers. Of a particular interest is that the leading public pension fund manager, the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) which …
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The Impact of Public Investment on Urban Revitalization: A Case Study on the Redevelopment of Downtown Norfolk, Virginia 1935-1985
… revitalization. It examines the effect of public investment in Downtown Norfolk in relation to various theories that have been developed to explain the growth of the central cores of cities.</p> <p>A chronology is presented of the events that marked the beginning and the first fifty years …
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Wage equations and the regional economics in Guatemala
… it is presented an analysis of the influence of public capital on productivity and production of non-agricultural firms located in different municipalities of the country. The research includes an analysis of the influence of neighboring effects of their economic conditions as regards labor …
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Making schools the centers of communities : moving the Los Angeles Unified School District from policy to practice
… often represent the largest, single community public infrastructure investment. In light of this, California's Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is in a unique and critical position as it attempts to undertake the largest, single capital improvement campaign in the Nation's history. …
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The impact of public infrastructure investment on economic growth in Thailand
This study investigates the effects of public infrastructure investment on economic growth under Thailand‟s fiscal sustainability framework. A recursive supply-side model based on the Standard Neoclassical Model framework is used using Thai national data on public revenue (taxes, non-tax revenue …
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Ex-Ante Welfare Effects From Scale-Neutral Productivity Growth for Semi-Subsistence Orphan Crops: Genetically Modified Cassava in Sub-Sahara Africa
… may be able to make more informed decisions on public investment in cassava by relying on both conventional and the alternative EDMs presented in this dissertation.
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An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Aid Heterogeneity According to Donors for Pakistan
… foreign assistance will be measured in terms of public expenditure and revenue. The factors associated in the provision of aid commitments and disbursements, and the effect of bilateral assistance on the production efficiency of Pakistan. Chapter 1 uses an aid disaggregation approach to examine …
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Regional economic performance and public infrastructure investment
… conducted to analyze the relationship between public infrastructure investment and regional economic performance. The first study examines the literature on economic development and productivity growth. I show that conflicting results from studies by other analysts are the likely result of poor …
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An investigation of the determinants of private investment: the case of Botswana
Private investment in Botswana as well as a ratio to Gross Domestic Product has been falling in some periods of 1976-2003. Viewed against the background of growing evidence of a link between investment and economic growth, an inconsistent and downward trend in Botswana's private investment is a …
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Public and private investment in Brazil: Empirical evidence about complementarity
… we examine the relationship between public and private investment in Brazil in the 1955-1993 period. The public sector has always been an important agent in the Brazilian economy. However, historical observation and empirical evidence indicate that the state has lost some of its …
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The people or the place? : revitalization / gentrification in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point
… bring to the neighborhood intense private and public investment in largely market-rate residential developments, large-scale commercial development, new transit service, and massive environmental remediation of abandoned toxic sites. With this renewed interest in the area comes the potential …
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Who Benefits from EU Money? The Political Effects of European Union Investment instruments
The European Union's regional investment policy allocates billions of Euros each year to foster economic and social cohesion through one of the largest public investment programs in the world. The following research examines the under-investigated electoral impact of this policy using novel data …
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Optimal planning of running time improvements for mixed-use freight and passenger railway lines
… and services. With the political sensitivity of public investment in rail infrastructure and accompanying shortage of state and federal funds, it is important that the most cost effective investments are selected. Many of these endeavors, including high-speed-rail projects with new, dedicated …
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Donor funding and crowding out of public spending: Evidence from low and middle-income countries
… low-resource settings agricultural output and public spending on agriculture are in decline, raising questions about the effectiveness of agricultural aid. To understand why these trends are occurring, we examined factors that affect the share of government spending on agriculture. Using a …
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Public-Private Partnerships for Higher Education Infrastructure: A Multiple-Case Study of Public-Private Partnership Models
The use of public-private partnerships is a growing trend in the United States. However, these arrangements\' job creation abilities have not fully been studied. The nature of these arrangements allows for a wide variety of organizational structures. This thesis analyzes differing public-private …
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