Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

Richard Bluhm, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney

No 2020-06, SoDa Laboratories Working Paper Series from Monash University

Abstract: 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

Keywords: transport costs; infrastructure; development finance; spatial concentration; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F35 O18 O19 P33 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-11-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-geo, nep-ppm, nep-tre and nep-ure
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