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 …

industry level, we find that PPP determinants vary across industries depending on the nature of public infrastructure, capital …

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 …

Driving infrastructure development, notably mobilizing financial resources for infrastructure projects, has been … infrastructure booms, and a case study of four emerging economies about their practice of funding infrastructure development. The … study shows that (i) there is no empirical evidence that rapid infrastructure growth would undermine contemporary …

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) involve the supply by the private sector of infrastructure and services deriving … from infrastructure assets which have traditionally been supplied by the public sector. PPPs are spreading all over the …

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 …