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 …

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 …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has boomed in post-reform India. Moreover, the composition and type of FDI has changed … to Granger causality tests within a panel cointegration framework. It turns out that the growth effects of FDI vary …

. Employing Johansen's multivariate cointegration approach, it investigates for ten selected SSA countries the long-run effect of … those cases where cointegration relationships are found-estimated supply elasticities tend to lie between 0.20 and 0 …

sector investment in R&D and stronger public-private sector linkages than in the EU. Hence, to reduce the "innovation gap …