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		| Hiroyuki  Taguchi and Yasushi  Sunouchi | 
	
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		| ''The Role of Institutions in Private Participation in Infrastructure in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Greenfield versus Brownfield Projects'' | 
	
		| ( 2019, Vol. 39 No.3 ) | 
	
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		| This paper aims to examine institutional effects on the private participation in infrastructure (PPI) projects by the type of greenfield and brownfield projects during the recent period for 2002-2017 with 117 low- and middle-income economies, by using the PPI and the Worldwide Governance Indicators database of the World Bank. The study contributes to enriching the evidence by updating the sample time-horizon and widening the coverage of sample economies, and by decomposing the PPI projects into greenfield and brownfield ones. The main findings of this study are summarized as follow: the institutional role in promoting the PPI projects are clearly identified in terms of government governance indicators such as government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law and control of corruption; the institutional effects are confirmed to be greater on the greenfield projects than on the brownfield ones; and the macroeconomic conditions such as the market size of an economy are also significant promoters of the PPI projects. | 
	
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		| Keywords: Private Participation in Infrastructure,  Institution,  Worldwide Governance Indicator,  Greenfield and Brownfield,  Multicollinearity | 
	
		| JEL: H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
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		| | Manuscript Received : Apr 28 2019 |  | Manuscript Accepted : Sep 07 2019 | 
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