Sentence examples for infrastructure endowment from inspiring English sources

An increase in the host country's infrastructure endowment is capable of attracting more FDI (Bellak et al. [2009]).

As well known, infrastructure endowment influences competitiveness of a region since the characteristics of a transport system in terms of capacity, connectivity, speeds, etc. determine the advantages/disadvantages of an area compared to other locations.

For example the above reported Table 1 indicates that the current infrastructure endowment (baseline 2005 versus scenario 45) benefits in terms of accessibility mainly the countries in the European core (such as Austria, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom) and even the Iberian Peninsula and France.

In practice the article assumes the best and worst (hypothetic) network settings by simulating respectively the Scenario 200 km/h and Scenario 45 km/h; this last one hypothesizes a degradation of the current network (or better an imaginary configuration previous to the baseline), to evaluate the benefits of the current infrastructure endowment compared to this lower bound.

Since no distance decay function (and so no discrimination between neighbor or far locations) is considered, the accessibility for each zone depends on the geographical position; remote locations present low accessibility values and even a good transport infrastructure endowment could be not enough to overcome the negative effects of a large geographical distance to the main activity areas [11].

"Universities have their own thing going — they want to build infrastructure and endowments and perpetuate their system, which isn't necessarily in the social interest," Mr. Gross said.

Long-term investors such as insurers and pension funds are eager to plough money into infrastructure, as are endowments and sovereign-wealth funds.

The efficacy of socio-economic endowments and public health infrastructure in promoting improved child nutrition may change as a country develops.

Another way to help is by calling for state policies and programs that grow community college endowments and build their physical infrastructure.

Her accomplishments include the completion of a $55 million fund-raising effort; increasing the university's endowment to $100 million; developing resources and infrastructure for information technology; and renovating dormitories and academic buildings at the university's campuses in Pleasantville and Manhattan.

Our analysis suggests that public health interventions aimed at overcoming rural-urban disparities in child nutrition outcomes need to focus principally on bridging gaps in socio-economic endowments and improving the quality of rural infrastructure.