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Bird, Julia and Straub, Stéphane
(2014)
The Brasília Experiment: Road Access and the Spatial Pattern of Long-term Local Development in Brazil.
TSE Working Paper, n. 14-495, Toulouse
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This paper studies the impact of the rapid expansion of the Brazilian road network, which occurred from the 1960s to the 2000s, on the growth and spatial allocation of population and economic activity across the country's municipalities. It addresses the problem of endogeneity in infrastructure location by using an original empirical strategy, based on the "historical natural experiment" constituted by the creation of the new federal capital city Brasília in 1960. The results reveal a dual pattern, with improved transport connections increasing concentration of economic activity and population around the main centers in the South of the country, while spurring the emergence of secondary economic centers in the less developed North, in line with predictions in terms of agglomeration economies. Over the period, roads are shown to account for half of pcGDP growth and to spur a signifficant decrease in spatial inequality.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | May 2014 |
| Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Transport costs, Infrastructure, Roads, Brazil |
| JEL Classification: | F15 - Economic Integration N76 - Latin America; Caribbean O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses R11 - Regional Economic Activity - Growth, Development, and Changes R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade R40 - General |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2014 17:45 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2024 11:33 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:28242 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/15936 |
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