investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can …. Very high corruption has the potential to prevent positive effects from road infrastructure on transport costs or to even … reverse them. This paper contributes to the literature on infrastructure investment by introducing and applying an …

We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …

We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An … period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new indices of infrastructure and provide country rankings, which we also … compare with subjective assessments of infrastructure in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. Finally, we …

. They are also attracted to industrially diverse locations and those with better infrastructure. We conclude that the …