Fluid populations, immobile assets: Synchronizing infrastructure investments with shifting demography

International Area Studies Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 222-248

  Ansar, Atif ^a   Pohlers, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demand forecasts; Demographic change; Durable and immobile investments; Infrastructure; Spatial; Technical natural monopoly; Temporal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927745438     PISSN: 22338659     EISSN: 20491123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2233865914538625     Document Type: Article

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