Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries

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-sen...

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Main Authors:	Bluhm, Richard (Author) , Dreher, Axel (Author) , Fuchs, Andreas (Author) , Parks, Bradley (Author) , Strange, Austin M. (Author) , Tierney, Michael J. (Author)
Format:	Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	Munich, Germany CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute June 2020
Series:	CESifo working paper no. 8344 (2020)
In:	CESifo working papers (no. 8344 (2020))
Subjects:	Graue Literatur
Online Access:	Verlag, kostenfrei: http://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp8344.pdf Verlag, kostenfrei: https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2020/working-paper/connective-financing-chinese-infrastructure-projects-and-diffusion Resolving-System, kostenfrei: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/219162
Author Notes:	Richard Bluhm, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Austin M. Strange, Michael J. Tierney