Better roads increase domestic trade and improve regional economies
Paving dirt roads and building highway networks, unsurprisingly, have been shown to produce substantial economic gains, but what is the impact on domestic trade from improving existing road networks? Using spatially disaggregated data on major capacity upgrades of existing road networks and domestic transactions in Turkey, this column estimates a large positive impact of
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