Typology of Industries for Prioritising Infrastructure Investments in Developing Countries: A Spatial Approach

Acronym

P_TIPII

Consortium Coordinator

Herrera Catalan, Pedro Paul

Start Date

December 19, 2023

End Date

October 2, 2024

Status

https://purl.org/pe-repo/concytec/estadoProyecto#concluido

Tipo de proyecto

https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/tipoProyecto#investigacionBasica

Description

Review and publication of: "The paper constructs a typology of industries to prioritise infrastructure investments in high-return areas of developing countries, presenting the case of Peru. Based on Marshall’s discussion of the economic benefits to production for firms that spatially concentrate, we use nonparametric distance-based tests of industry localisation to identify the geographic concentration of industries. We find that one-third of manufacturing industries exhibit a relatively high degree of industrial agglomeration. Then using spatial logit models, we explore spatial and non-spatial factors that firms value when deciding where to locate. We find that spatial autocorrelation effects are a key factor of a firm’s location, but their importance varies significantly across concentration quartiles. Finally, we use the model estimations to construct a typology of industries that differs according to their clustering degree, accessibility to markets, access to inputs, basic infrastructure levels and neighbouring effects. This setup is proposed to help policymakers to prioritise industrial policies in Peru."

Keywords

Infraestructura productiva

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Tipología industrial

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Análisis espacial

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Países en desarrollo

Área de conocimiento

Social sciences

Campo OCDE

https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.07.03