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Duong Trung Le
Duong Trung Le is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University. He received a Ph.D. in economics and an MBA in Management Information Systems from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. His fields of research include development economics, environmental economics, and applied microeconomics. His research focuses on two areas: First, he studies the economics of enterprises in developing countries, evaluating how various institutional and public interventions affect their performance and behaviours; second, he examines the impacts of different environmental shocks on the sustainability of socioeconomic development. His research leverages Geographic Information System (GIS) and relates geospatial and remote-sensing information to firm- and household-level data.
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Rural infrastructure development and economic activity
Estimating the effects of physical infrastructure investments on economic growth has remained challenging, especially in rural settings. This article studies the effects of a rural infrastructure grants programme launched to facilitate physical infrastructure development in the most economically backward districts in India. It provides evidence on the effectiveness of the programme, especially on microenterprises, with stronger impacts in electricity and road-intensive industries, and in villages that had paved roads and electricity prior to the programme
