This paper investigates the emerging global landscape for public-private co-investments in infrastructure. The creation … of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and other so-called 'infrastructure investment platforms' are an attempt to … infrastructure projects. This paper puts these new initiatives into perspective by critically reviewing the literature and experience …

efficiency, and hindering domestic integration and export performance. This paper assesses the state of Brazil's infrastructure …, in light of past investment trends and various quality and quantity indicators. Brazil's infrastructure stock and its …Infrastructure bottlenecks have been identified as a key obstacle to growth affecting productivity and market …

While Brazil's deep recession has been broad based, it has been marked by a particularlylarge fall in investment. Real … factors contributed tothe investment decline, including a deterioration in Brazil's medium-term growthprospects, rising real …

eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …

-private partnerships (PPPs). We show that infrastructure projects carried out through local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) were …

unemployment with efficiency wages. Typically P3s cost more but produce higher-quality infrastructure and boast a better on …, underinvestment in infrastructure, unemployment and poverty. The asymmetric impact on macro externalities raises the social return in …

Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions … covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact of infrastructure and investment on income … distribution. It finds that better infrastructure, both quality and quantity, promotes income equality, while the link between …

This paper examines trends in infrastructure investment and its financing in low-income developing countries (LIDCs …). Following an acceleration of public investment over the last 15 years, the stock of infrastructure assets increased in LIDCs …, even though large gaps remain compared to emerging markets. Infrastructure in LIDCs is largely provided by the public …