Indonesia.s infrastructure is in poor shape, having suffered from protracted under-investment since the Asian financial …

productivity (TFP) in the United States in the early 1970s. He argues that it is due to the roughly contemporaneous slowdown in the … rate of investment in public-sector infrastructure. Using data for eleven OECD countries, this note provides only mixed … significant effect of infrastructure on TFP in about half the countries. A longer-term perspective was also examined for the …

Adequate and well-functioning infrastructure is a key ingredient to growth and well-being. The benefits to activity of … accumulation. Good infrastructure facilitates trade, bolsters market integration and competition, fosters the dissemination of … other markets. Nevertheless, Australia has an important infrastructure deficit. This is in part due to underinvestment in …

Productivity growth has been falling for a decade, hindering improvements in living standards. Low productivity … reflects, firstly, poor infrastructure in telecommunications and transport. Secondly, the regulatory environment is not always … systems have been unable to supply adequately skilled workers across the country. To improve productivity, public investment …

, where productivity is higher and has increased further thanks to agglomeration effects. In the process, the rural …

Three main approaches can be used to assess infrastructure performance. The first employs macro-econometric techniques … to estimate the impact of the existing infrastructure capital stock on growth and to infer its growth-maximising level …. This approach neglects the impact of infrastructure on some dimensions of social welfare, such as pollution. The second …

Brazil under-invested in infrastructure for over three decades, and infrastructure investment rates have come up only … slowly since 2007. Infrastructure needs are sizeable in almost all sectors. It is likely that at its current stage of … development the country will benefit from large pay-offs from infrastructure spending. Against this background, the Brazilian …

Indonesia.s infrastructure is in poor shape, having suffered from protracted under-investment since the Asian financial ….oecd.org/eco/surveys/Indonesia).<P>Relever le défi de l'infrastructure en Indonésie<BR>L.infrastructure indonesienne est en mauvais etat, ce qui tient au sous …

Following many years of underinvestment, renovating and building new transport infrastructure is an important policy … in the rolling stock and infrastructure network of the railway sector. It also faces the challenges of revitalising … infrastructure.<P>Le défi d'une amélioration rapide des infrastructures de transport en Pologne<BR>Après des années de sous …