We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …

The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its … effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and … paper encourages discussion about how to measure infrastructure capital, particularly highways and streets, and its effects. …

(SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean …

, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … face greater interruptions in infrastructure services. Larger firms spend significantly more time dealing with officials … growth of all firms, particularly micro and small firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure …

contrast, infrastructure proxies are not significantly associated with subsequent growth in any of the models estimated. …

's income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with … economies. When brain drain increases in source economies, public infrastructure investment is optimally adjusted downward … ; cross-country evidence ; educational choice ; public infrastructure investment ; R&D investment …

This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub … about the processing of small infrastructure projects requests by sub-municipal governments. The objective of this …, and monitoring small infrastructure project allocations. Second, is to explicitly alter the probability of detecting …

important implications for the ongoing policy debate over government investment in broadband infrastructure to encourage …