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The Growth Return of Infrastructure in Latin America

This paper examines the effects of improvements in infrastrucutre on sectoral growth and firm-level investment, focusing on six Latin American countries. Exploiting the heterogeneity in the quality of infrastructure across countries and the intrinsic variation in the dependence of sectors on infr...

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Main Author: Sergi Lanau
Format: Báo cáo
Language:English
Published: International Monetary Fund 2017
Subjects:
infrastructure
growth
investment
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11742/39078
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description This paper examines the effects of improvements in infrastrucutre on sectoral growth and firm-level investment, focusing on six Latin American countries. Exploiting the heterogeneity in the quality of infrastructure across countries and the intrinsic variation in the dependence of sectors on infrastructure, I find that better infrastructure raises growth and investment. Improved infrastructure could yield large economic benefits. For example, if the quality of infrastructure in Colombia increased to the sample median (Czech Republic), GDP growth would increase by about 0.1 percentage points.
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spelling oai:http:--thuvienso.quochoi.vn:11742-390782024-07-08T09:36:17Z The Growth Return of Infrastructure in Latin America Sergi Lanau infrastructure growth investment This paper examines the effects of improvements in infrastrucutre on sectoral growth and firm-level investment, focusing on six Latin American countries. Exploiting the heterogeneity in the quality of infrastructure across countries and the intrinsic variation in the dependence of sectors on infrastructure, I find that better infrastructure raises growth and investment. Improved infrastructure could yield large economic benefits. For example, if the quality of infrastructure in Colombia increased to the sample median (Czech Republic), GDP growth would increase by about 0.1 percentage points. 2017-02 Báo cáo http://hdl.handle.net/11742/39078 en application/pdf International Monetary Fund International Monetary Fund
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