The paper analyses the infrastructure provision in East Germany mainly by an examination of existing literature. At the … time of German unification 1990, infrastructure in East Germany was in a very bad condition. After more than ten years of … rebuilding, most of the remaining need for infrastructure investments is probably in the road sector. Therefore, the planned new …

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 …

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 …

applied for EU membership. These actions are taking place in a variety of different fields. Transport infrastructure upgrading … is supporting network upgrading in all Baltic Rim EIT. Specific infrastructure measures refer to the Pan-European "Crete … "software" side, TEN initiatives have been enacted to harmonize infrastructure cross-border planning, in particular for Crete …

analyses of public capital productivity have been limited to a small sample of countries for which official capital stock …