with stronger initial financial development, suggesting that although financing responds to large infrastructure … data from the Reserve Bank of India, to investigate the interaction between infrastructure development and financial sector …

financing of infrastructure investment -- documenting the changing roles of the public and private sectors -- and analyzes how …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 …

financing of infrastructure investment -- documenting the changing roles of the public and private sectors -- and analyzes how …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 …

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 …-based indicators of infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. Specifically, the paper seeks to answer a number of relevant … questions: How does South Africa compare on major indicators of infrastructure sector performance against the relevant country …

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 … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities …

The authors examine the impact of public infrastructure on private capital formation in three countries of the Middle … East and North Africa-Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. They highlight various channels through which public infrastructure may …) model that accounts for flows and (quality-adjusted) stocks of public infrastructure, private investment, as well as changes …

Existing literature on the relationship between infrastructure and economic growth is inconclusive. This study … evaluates the contributions to economic growth of three main categories of infrastructure - transport, electricity, and …, includes new types of infrastructure such as mobile phones, and provides separate estimates for developing and developed …