South Asia needs large infrastructure investments to achieve its development goals, and public investment can also … public infrastructure was a key driver of productivity growth in South Asia. Going forward, higher public infrastructure … reap the most benefits from higher infrastructure investment, South Asian countries need to manage fiscal risks carefully …

This paper investigates the deindustrialization and welfare effects of infrastructure aid in developing countries. In … the short run, cost-saving infrastructure aid in the export sector increases the domestic wage rate, whereas the same aid … infrastructure aid. Infrastructure aid in the nontraded sector has no effect on domestic factor prices. Laborsaving infrastructure …

One objective of government investment is to develop public infrastructure which may reduce private sector costs. In a … recent fiscal adjustment in Mexico is that it has been carried out, in part, by depleting public infrastructure stocks ….We estimate the effects of public infrastructure on private sector costs in Mexico and calculate the implied optimal …

essential for PPPs. We provide evidence on the importance of institutional quality, where less corruption and effective rule of … industry level, we find that PPP determinants vary across industries depending on the nature of public infrastructure, capital …

We evaluate the direct employment effect of the public investment in key infrastructure-electricity, roads, schools and … million of public spending in infrastructure create 3-7 jobs in advanced economies, 10-17 jobs in emerging market economies …

While expanding public investment can help filling infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling up too much and too fast often …