World Development Report 1994, the seventeenth in this annual series, examines the link between infrastructure and … development and explores ways in which developing countries can improve both the provision and the quality of infrastructure … services. In recent decades, developing countries have made substantial investments in infrastructure, achieving dramatic gains …

World Development Report 1994, the seventeenth in this annual series, examines the link between infrastructure and … development and explores ways in which developing countries can improve both the provision and the quality of infrastructure … services. In recent decades, developing countries have made substantial investments in infrastructure, achieving dramatic gains …

This report provides a gender review of a decade and a half of World Bank infrastructure lending for 1,246 projects …. The objective of this review is to assess the status of and trends in gender integration in the World Bank infrastructure … 2006 gender action plan. The portfolio review reveals important progress on gender integration in infrastructure operations …

Drawing on the World Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, this Note provides an overview of … private activity in infrastructure in developing countries between 1990 and 2000. Three main trends characterized that decade …: Private activity in infrastructure grew each year except 1998 and 1999. Most developing countries introduced some form of …

"Calderán and Serven provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on economic growth and … include, among the regressors, infrastructure quantity and quality indicators, in addition to standard controls. To account … for the potential endogeneity of infrastructure (as well as that of other regressors), the authors use a variety of …

Nigeria's urban infrastructure is crumbling. Water supply, sewerage, sanitation, drainage, roads, electricity, and …-effective infrastructure spending, is almost zero. It has become the norm in Nigeria to wait for a capital infusion to rehabilitate, replacing … instead of maintaining the infrastructure. But declining financial resources are making this less feasible, and the …

"The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative … deficiencies in infrastructure performance in Lesotho: (1) extremely low access to electricity and its affordability; (2) poor …

This book is designed to promote the development of infrastructure services in Honduras, with the aim of improving the … increase in private investment in infrastructure services, which should take place in a more competitive environment and be … subject to an adequate legal and regulatory framework. The study details the progress to date in Honduran infrastructure …