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Infrastructure and the effects of changes in its stock and composition on the economy have been the object of study in a large variety of contexts (Rietveld, 1989).
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Hakfoort, J. (1996). Public Capital, Private Sector Productivity and Economic Growth: A Macroeconomic Perspective. In: Batten, D.F., Karlsson, C. (eds) Infrastructure and the Complexity of Economic Development. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80266-9_5
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