Infrastructure Investment and Inflation in Saudi Arabia

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Looney, R.E.
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The possibility that the resulting supply-side effects of publicsector investment in infrastructure can reduce inflationary pressures has long intrigued economists. Tersely put, increases in investment in infrastructure, while perhaps inflationary in the initial construction stage, may ultimately result in reductions in the price level through the elimination of bottlenecks and the subsequent increase in the supply of goods and services. In particular, investment in such areas as transportation and energy, thereby reducing the costs of commercial production, appear to have the potential of being particularly effective in this regard.
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Journal of Energy and Development, vol 14, no. 1, 1990.
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Looney, R.E., "Infrastructure Investment and Inflation in Saudi Arabia,” Journal of Energy and Development, vol 14, no. 1, 1990.
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