Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Sophia Levtchenkova 
Author-Email:levtches@cbs.curtin.edu.au
Author-Name: Jeff Petchey 
Author-Email:petcheyj@cbs.curtin.edu.au
Title:  A model for Public Infrastructure Equalization in Transitional Economies 
Abstract: In this paper, a simulation model is constructed that would enable policy-makers in transitional economies to
 estimate regionally disparate capital needs and direct capital expenditures to improve standards of public capital
 or services such as education and health.  The model allows policy makers to achieve some degree of ‘equalisation
 in the regional distribution of publicly supplied capital to allow citizens greater equality of access to services,
 regardless of location.  After developing an appropriate input database, the model is applied to South Africa.
 The results show that South Africa would need to commit about 2 percent of GDP to supplementary public capital
 expenditures if it is to make substantial inroads into attaining some form of public infrastructure equalisation over time.
Keywords: transitional economies, capital expenditure, PIM, equalisation, infrastructure backlogs, public expenditure
Length: 21 pages
Creation-Date: 2004-11-01
File-URL:http://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2015/03/ispwp0414.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:ays:ispwps:paper0414