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Pvunderink Posted 12 years ago
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Key

Can some please verify whether the word 'key' is appropriate here?
Are there other mistakes in this sentence?

"Following Aschauer’s early work, which found evidence for large rates of return, there have been a great number of studies using national and international data that support the result that infrastructure is key to economic growth."
  

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Pvunderink Can some please verify whether the word 'key' is appropriate here? )

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Pvunderink Can some please verify whether the word 'key' is appropriate here? Are there other mistakes in this sentence?"Following Aschauer’s early work, which found evidence for large rates of return, there have been a great number of studies using national and international data that support the result that infrastructure i
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Results based on empirical analysis.
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Pvunderink"Following Aschauer’s early work, which found evidence for large rates of return, there have been a great number of studies using national and international data that support the result that infrastructure is key to economic growth."
...support / reinforce / confirm the conclusion that infrastructure is key to economic growth.
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AlpheccaStarsthe conclusion
That's the word I was trying to come up with. Thanks.
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Thank you both!
Conclusion is indeed better.
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