"Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities … alternative measures of productivity, the prevalence of ambiguous (countervailing signs) results, with little systematic pattern …

This Infrastructure Public Expenditure Review presents options for addressing infrastructure services needs in Mexico … sectors in Mexico, and existing cost-recovery mechanisms, and the related outcomes: quality and efficiency of service, and … are also discussed. Chapter 4 discusses the effectiveness of the existing programs in Mexico to encourage private …

"Using panel data models, the author examines the threshold effects of the productivity of infrastructure investment in … particular, the productivity of infrastructure investment generally exhibits some network effects. When the available stock of … infrastructure is very low, investment in this sector has the same productivity as noninfrastructure investment. On the contrary …

generate productivity growth, the authors find that African countries are likely to gain more from larger stocks of …

empirical strategy involves the estimation of simple equations for GDP growth and conventional inequality measures, augmented to …

total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …

"The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …