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Transport investment and the promotion of economic growth
David Banister,Yossi Berechman +1 more
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In this article, the authors have developed a new approach based on defining the set of necessary conditions for economic development to take place -in addition to the economic conditions, there are the investment conditions and the political and institutional conditions.About:
This article is published in Journal of Transport Geography.The article was published on 2001-09-01. It has received 554 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Project appraisal & Investment (macroeconomics).read more
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Research on Impulse Response of Yangtze River Waterway Construction to Basin Economic Growth
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors applied datum of waterway construction investment from 1991 to 2008, uses impulse response function to analyze the relationship between waterway investment investment and basin economy, and reached the conclusions that Yangtze River Waterway construction and basin economic growth have strong interaction.
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Is the creative class a shock absorber against an economic recession? Spatial labour market resilience in Romania
TL;DR: This article proposed a new framework on the significance of the creative class for local economic resilience, namely: the creativity and resilience analysis approach (CREA), to evaluate resilience through an index that includes multiple dimensions of creativity-based economic development, and identified preliminary findings that link economic resilience with spatial shifts in local labour markets.
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Land Transportation Accessibility and Urbanization Spatial Pattern Based on Coupling Coordination—Taking Chengdu-Chongqing Urban Agglomeration as an Example
TL;DR: In this paper, Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration is used as an example to explore the evolution relationship between land transportation accessibility and urbanization spatial pattern based on coupling coordination measurement model.
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Economic adaptability evaluation of the main ports of artery of yangtze river
Wang Xuanxuan,Zhan Bin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the main ports of artery of the Yangtze River were evaluated from three aspects of economic adaptability, namely, carrying capacity, demand potential and economy support ability, establishing the related index, including the integrated port cargo throughput capacity and throughput, container throughput capacity, and throughput as well as city economic scale, reaching economic development adaptability of 8 ports and cities.
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Access to Inclusive Urban Public Transport System in Bangladesh: The Case of Dhaka City
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the state of people's access to the inclusive urban transport system in Dhaka and suggested strategies for improving access to public buses for vulnerable groups in the city.
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