Global evidence suggests better infrastructure governance results in more efficient spending and better growth outcomes …, 2015; World Bank 2014; OECD, 2013a) demonstrate that improvements in infrastructure governance can lead to substantial … efficiency enhancements and enhanced infrastructure productivity over the life of the asset. Conversely, poor governance is a …

This report examines the role of infrastructure in explaining why the region lags so far behind the rest of the country …. More importantly, it looks at how improved infrastructure may help the region catch up. Infrastructure is examined here …

employment. This new analysis was possible by applying the growth decomposition tool to new data disaggregated by sectors of the … economy and new data on constraints to productivity and employment growth generated by the three enterprise surveys conducted …

The Mashreq countries must fully leverage digital infrastructure as well as their relative strengths in transforming … their economies. The report lays out the strategic importance of digital infrastructure for countries in the region, takes … infrastructure covers the broadband value chain: international connectivity, Internet exchange points (IXPs), backbone networks, and …

addressing human capital and infrastructure gaps. This PER-1 (phase 1 of the PER) focuses on macro-fiscal and overarching public …

services and infrastructure. Yet general government spending at 15 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) is much lower than …

address development needs explains the country's low human capital and poor quality infrastructure, which in turn hamper …), identify reforms that could yield fiscal and efficiency gains, and assess the governance of SOEs …