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Article: Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
| Title | Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries |
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| Authors | |
| Keywords | China Development finance Foreign aid Infrastructure Spatial concentration Transport costs |
| Issue Date | 1-Jan-2025 |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Citation | Journal of Urban Economics, 2025, v. 145 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial distribution of economic activity within subnational regions across a large number of developing countries. To do so, we introduce a new global dataset of geolocated Chinese grant- and loan-financed development projects from 2000 to 2014 and combine it with measures of spatial concentration based on remotely sensed data. We find that Chinese-financed transportation projects decentralize economic activity within regions, as measured by a spatial Gini coefficient, by 2.2 percentage points. The treatment effects are particularly strong in regions that are less developed, more urbanized, and located closer to cities. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/352757 |
| ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 5.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 4.314 |
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| dc.contributor.author | Bluhm, Richard | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Dreher, Axel | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Fuchs, Andreas | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Parks, Bradley C | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Strange, Austin M | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Tierney, Michael J | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-31T00:35:06Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-31T00:35:06Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-01-01 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Urban Economics, 2025, v. 145 | - |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0094-1190 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/352757 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | <p>This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial distribution of economic activity within subnational regions across a large number of developing countries. To do so, we introduce a new global dataset of geolocated Chinese grant- and loan-financed development projects from 2000 to 2014 and combine it with measures of spatial concentration based on remotely sensed data. We find that Chinese-financed transportation projects decentralize economic activity within regions, as measured by a spatial Gini coefficient, by 2.2 percentage points. The treatment effects are particularly strong in regions that are less developed, more urbanized, and located closer to cities.</p> | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Urban Economics | - |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
| dc.subject | China | - |
| dc.subject | Development finance | - |
| dc.subject | Foreign aid | - |
| dc.subject | Infrastructure | - |
| dc.subject | Spatial concentration | - |
| dc.subject | Transport costs | - |
| dc.title | Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries | - |
| dc.type | Article | - |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103730 | - |
| dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85211232349 | - |
| dc.identifier.volume | 145 | - |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1095-9068 | - |
| dc.identifier.issnl | 0094-1190 | - |