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Effects of Improving Infrastructure Quality on Business Costs : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
| 题名： | Effects of Improving Infrastructure Quality on Business Costs : Evidence from Firm-Level Data |
| 责任者： | Iimi, Atsushi |
| 关键词： | Water Supply and Sanitation；Town Water Supply and Sanitation；Transport Economics Policy and Planning；Communities and Human Settlements；Urban Slums Upgrading；Infrastructure Economics and Finance；Infrastructure Economics；Infrastructure Economics and Finance；Private Participation in Infrastructure；Transport |
| 学科分类： | 交通运输规划与管理 |
| 摘要： | Economic development is affected by infrastructure services in both volume and quality terms. However, the quality of infrastructure is relatively difficult to measure and assess. The current paper, using firm-level data collected by a business environment assessment survey in 26 countries in Europe and Central Asia, estimates the marginal impacts on firm costs of infrastructure quality. The results suggest that the reliability or continuity of services is important for business performance. Firm costs significantly increase when electricity outages occur more frequently and the average outage duration becomes longer. Similarly, increased hours of water supply suspensions also reduce firms' competitiveness. In these countries, it is found that the total benefit for the economy from eliminating the existing electricity outages ranges from 0.5 to 6 percent of gross domestic product. If all water suspensions are removed, the economy could receive a gain of about 0.5 to 2 percent of gross domestic product. By contrast, the quality of telecommunications services seems to have no significant impact. |
| 出版机构： | World Bank |
| 报告类型： | 咨询报告 |
| 详细地址： | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/03/9293279/effects-improving-infrastructure-quality-business-costs-evidence-firm-level-data |
| 资源类型： | 科技（咨询、行业）报告 |
| 初始创建时间： | 2008-03 |
| 最新修改时间： | 2017-12-13T13:22:11Z |
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