全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP14818 Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14818
	DP14818 Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries
	Richard Bluhm; Axel Dreher; Andreas Fuchs; Bradley Parks; Austin Strange; Michael Tierney
发表日期	2020-05-27
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	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 of developing countries. We find that Chinese-financed transportation projects reduce spatial concentration within but not between regions. In line with land use theory, we document a range of results which are consistent with a relocation of activity from city centers to their immediate periphery. Transport projects decentralize activity particularly strongly in regions that are more urbanized, located closer to the coast, and less developed.
主题	Development Economics ; International Trade and Regional Economics ; Macroeconomics and Growth ; Public Economics
关键词	Transport costs Infrastructure Development finance Foreign aid Spatial concentration China
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14818
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543751
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Richard Bluhm,Axel Dreher,Andreas Fuchs,et al. DP14818 Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries. 2020.