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 …

Liberia is facing large infrastructure gaps and developmental needs that constrain the country’s growth potential. The … investment in infrastructure and human capital. Fiscal space remains constrained by rigidities in current spending and the …

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 …

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 …

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 …