This paper uses some simple conceptual models to draw out various implications of infrastructure investments with long … infrastructure investment decisions tend to be made on the basis of (current and expected future) emissions prices that do not fully … for infrastructure investors. These issues are illustrated for two alternative cases of climate damages, namely with the …

This paper examines a puzzle in the political economy of infrastructure in India -- the co-existence of relatively low … shares of capital spending in public budgets alongside evidence of large demand for village infrastructure from poor voters …. It argues that this pattern is due to infrastructure projects being used at the margin for political rent-seeking, while …

Policy recommendations for infrastructure provision usually build on a well-established understanding of best practice … ignored goes a long way toward explaining why infrastructure policies fail and why best practice can be counterproductive … consideration of how the different incentive problems in politics impede policy improvements in infrastructure. This paper addresses …

transport sectors in Africa. The power sector poses Tanzania's most serious infrastructure challenge. Despite significant …Infrastructure contributed 1.3 percentage points to Tanzania's annual per capital GDP growth during the 2000s. If the … country's infrastructure endowment were improved to the level of the African leader, Mauritius, annual per capita growth rates …

Uganda has made substantial progress on its infrastructure agenda in recent years. The early and successful ICT reform …'s infrastructure challenges will require sustained expenditure of around $1.4 billion per year over the next decade, strongly skewed … towards capital expenditure. Uganda already spends approximately $1 billion per year on infrastructure, equivalent to about 11 …

Infrastructure contributed 1.8 percentage points to Cote d'Ivoire's annual per capita GDP growth over the mid-2000s … before conflict began to erase the country's infrastructure and its growth contributions. Raising the country …'s infrastructure endowment to the level of the region's middle-income countries could boost the growth rate by a further 2 percentage …

could be halved through the use of more efficient technologies to meet infrastructure targets in the transport and WSS …In the past decade, infrastructure contributed 0.5 percentage points to Kenya's annual per capita GDP growth. Raising … the country s infrastructure endowment to that of Africa's middle-income countries could increase that contribution by 3 …

three times the regional average. Addressing Liberia's public infrastructure needs will require sustained expenditures of … between $350 million and $600 million annually, mostly to fund power and transport. In the mid-2000s, with all sources of … spending taken into account, Liberia spent around $90 million a year on infrastructure. An additional $17 million was lost to …

Infrastructure contributed 1.2 percentage points to Malawi's annual per capital GDP growth over the past decade …. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region s middle-income countries could increase that … contribution by 3.5 percentage points. Malawi's successes in infrastructure development include reaching the Millennium Development …

Infrastructure contributed 0.6 percentage points to Ethiopia's annual per capita GDP growth over the last decade …. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries could add an additional 3 … percentage points to infrastructure's contribution to growth. Ethiopia's infrastructure successes include developing Ethiopia …