The authors provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on economic growth and income … the regressors, infrastructure quantity and quality indicators, in addition to standard controls. To account for the … potential endogeneity of infrastructure (as well as that of other regressors), the authors use a variety of generalized …

This paper provides an overview of the major current debates on infrastructure policy. It reviews the evidence on the … infrastructure service delivery as well as the main options for changes in the role of government (i.e. regulation and …

This paper focuses on problems and their causes and cures in policy and planning for large infrastructure projects …. First, it identifies as the main problem in major infrastructure development pervasive misinformation about the costs … paper presents measures for reforming policy and planning for large infrastructure projects, with a focus on better planning …

Evidence of public expenditure on infrastructure is extremely sparse. Little is known about the trends and patterns of … infrastructure expenditure, and there is no real basis for assessing the adequacy and efficiency of infrastructure spending. Drawing … on the World Bank's novel BOOST database, this paper provides a first relatively disaggregated picture of infrastructure …

An adequate supply of infrastructure services has long been viewed by both academics and policy makers as a key … dominant position in the provision of infrastructure, and the opening up of these industries to private participation, have … renewed the debate on the role of infrastructure in the region's development. The focus of this paper is three-fold. First, it …

An adequate supply of infrastructure services has long been viewed by both academics and policy makers as a key … dominant position in the provision of infrastructure, and the opening up of these industries to private participation, have … renewed the debate on the role of infrastructure in the region's development. The focus of this paper is three-fold. First, it …

This paper examines whether infrastructure investment has contributed to East Asia's economic growth using both a … exercise and cross-country regressions fail to find a significant link between infrastructure, productivity and growth. These … conclusions contrast strongly with previous studies finding positive and significant effect for all infrastructure variables in …

infrastructure projects. It reveals the possible risk of relying too much on a foreign bidding coalition and may suggest the …

The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensive benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance in four … questions: How does South Africa compare on major indicators of infrastructure sector performance against the relevant country … groups? What do outcome indicators tell us about the relative strengths and weaknesses of South Africa's infrastructure …

using panel data for South Africa over the 1970-2000 period, and a range of 19 infrastructure measures. Using a number of …Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … infrastructure overprovision, simultaneity between infrastructure provision and growth, and the possibility of multiple (hence …