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 …

With limited financing options, increasing investment efficiency will be a critical avenue to building infrastructure … scores for a wide range of countries employing metrics of infrastructure quantity and utilization. We find that efficiency … inefficiencies could increase infrastructure output by 55 percent overall, when averaging across 12 estimation approaches …

intra-regional financial flows and mobilize resources from the aging savers in industrialized Asia to finance infrastructure … emerging Asia. Finally, financial deepening could help ease the potential overheating from scaling up infrastructure investment …There is a role for Asia's financial sector to play to address the challenges associated with the region's changing …

infrastructure financing. This paper looks at the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs) on the terms of syndicated loan deals …

Major output collapses are costly and frequent in the developing world. Using cross-country data, we classify five …