How Productive Is Infrastructure? A New Approach and Evidence from Rural India

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Road Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction in China: (2005, background): “29Using the data from rural India, Zhang and Fan (2001) tested the two directions of causality between produc-”
Differential impacts of rainfall and irrigation on agricultural production in Nigeria: Any lessons for climate-smart agriculture? (2016, methodology): “Zhang and Fan (2004) applied a GMM technique to empircally test the causal relationship between productivity, growth and nfrastructural development using India district-level data from 970 to 1994, while Fan et al. (2008) assessed the impact of public xpenditure in developing countries.”
Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Rwanda (2010, unknown): “042 3 India (Zhang and Fan, 2004) Road density (km/1000km) 0.”
Granger-Causality between Transportation and GDP: A Panel Data Approach (2014, unknown): “Zhang and Fan (2004) conducts a Granger causality test in a general method of moments (GMM) framework to study the relationship between road density and agricultural productivity growth of 290 districts of rural India in 1971-1994.”
The adoption of intensive monocrop horticulture in southern Cameroon (2004, background): “The condition of rural roads and the amount of vehicular traffic affect market access and search and information costs, which have been shown to influence intensification processes (Odhiambo, 1998; Zang and Fan, 2001).”