"The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … comparator countries using a new World Bank international data base with objective and perception-based indicators of … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative …

of a world attempting to manage its way out of a triple crisis: debt sustainability, climate change, and pandemic. The … change. Participation of the private sector in climate-smart investments and infrastructure is critical and public … infrastructure gap without mobilizing private sector expertise, innovative thinking, investment capacity, and finance. PPPs can be a …

"Infrastructure projects are often technically complicated and highly customized. Therefore, procurement competition … suggests that quality is of particular importance in large infrastructure projects and auctioneers cannot easily substitute … price for quality. "--World Bank web site …

community to progressively increase access to modern infrastructure services in Africa. "--World Bank web site … infrastructure services. In this paper, we use Demographic and Health Surveys from a larger sample of sub-Saharan African countries …) telephone has increased rapidly. The decline has been primarily in the urban areas while the infrastructure coverage has either …

the developing world in its infrastructure endowment, except in ICT. By far the largest gaps arise in the power sector … that African countries have much more limited infrastructure than income peers in other parts of the developing world …"The paper's objective is to explain factors underlying Africa's weak infrastructure endowment and to identify suitable …

"The goal of the paper is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the impact of infrastructure development on growth … the impact on per capita growth of faster accumulation of infrastructure stocks and of enhancement in the quality of … infrastructure services for 39 African countries in three key infrastructure sectors: telecommunications, electricity, and roads …

of infrastructure on labor productivity, and the indirect impact of infrastructure on total factor productivity. "--World …"Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … infrastructure overprovision, simultaneity between infrastructure provision and growth, and the possibility of multiple (hence …

"The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensive benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance in four … relevant group of comparator countries using a new World Bank international data base with objective and perception …-based indicators of infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. Specifically, the paper seeks to answer a number of relevant …