Institutions, Infrastructure, and Economic Growth

By H. S. Esfahani, M. Ramírez. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Is Infrastructure Capital Productive? A Dynamic Heterogeneous Approach (2011, neutral): “For this approach to be valid, the inputs have to be weakly exogenous -- in the sense of Engle, Hendry, and Richard (1983) -- for the parameters of the cointegrating relation.”
Social responsibility of major infrastructure projects in China (2015, background): “Previous studies have shown that infrastructure projects have direct or indirect positive impacts on economic development (Esfahani and Ramirez, 2003; Munnell, 1992).”
Transport Infrastructure Development, Public Performance and Long-Run Economic Growth: A Case Study for the Eu-28 Countries (2018, background): “Esfahani and Ramirez [87] highlight the institutional implications.”
Infrastructure and Development: A Critical Appraisal of the Macro-level Literature (2008, background): “Formally, Esfahani and Ramirez (2003), using a structural model of infrastructure and output growth, display estimates that support the key role of generic institutional capabilities, such as contract enforcement and bureaucratic efficiency, in enabling high infrastructure returns.”
Infrastructure and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2008, background): “For example, Estache, Manacorda and Valletti (2002) show that income inequality adversely affects access to internet, while Alesina, Baqir and Easterly (1999) argue that more unequal societies devote less effort to the provision of public goods, including infrastructure.”
Effect of transportation infrastructure on economic growth in India: The VECM approach (2013, neutral): “In short, transport remains a crucial infrastructure that boosts economic development (Esfahani & Ramirez, 2003; Phang, 2003; Sanchez-Robles, 1998; Shah, 1992; Short & Kopp, 2005; Wang, 2002; WDR, 1994).”
Does Greater Accountability Improve the Quality of Public Service Delivery? Evidence from Uganda (2005, background): “This may be one of the reasons that infrastructure investment improves economic growth only if associated with the right governance environment (Esfahani & Ramirez, 2003).”
Infrastructure and growth in South Africa : direct and indirect productivity impacts of 19 infrastructure measures (2006, neutral): “51 An immediate estimation issue concerns the possibility of simultaneity bias attaching to the R & D Y/L variable identi ﬁ ed in the theoretical discussion.”
Infrastructure, growth, and inequality : an overview (2014, background): “Esfahani and Ramírez (2003) and Cadot, Roller and Stephan (2006) present two-equation models that jointly describe the aggregate production function and”
Institutions and Development:A View from Below (2005, background): “Ethnolinguistic homogeneity11 One SD increase in contract-intensive money (0.14) increases growth by 94.5 (OLS) and 1.739 (IV), controlling for log GDP per capita in 1970 Esfahani &Ramirez (2003) I. Growth of GDP per capita II.”