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标题：Difference Within Peers: The Infrastructure Stock in the Least Developed Countries
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作者：Lisa Borgatti
期刊名称：African Technology Development Forum Journal
印刷版ISSN：1817-2008
电子版ISSN：1817-2008
出版年度：2008
卷号：4
期号：4
出版社：African Technology Development Forum
摘要：The decrepit state of infrastructure in many least developed countries (LDCs) constitutes a major obstacle for these countries to grow and develop. Yet, the differences in the infrastructure stocks within the group of LDC countries are too often overlooked. Using a cluster analysis technique, this paper shows that LDCs with poor infrastructure tend to be large African LDCs with a low population density, while the group with the best infrastructure stocks is composed of small LDCs with high population and urbanization rates. The paper highlights the worrying trend that less than a handful of LDCs managed to improve their infrastructure over time. Most of them are still grappling with the same infrastructure stock they had 13 years earlier.
关键词：infrastructure; cluster analysis; least developed;countries