other infrastructure funding systems, toll charges and other parts to remuneration, and risk sharing between concession …

"The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative … deficiencies in infrastructure performance in Lesotho: (1) extremely low access to electricity and its affordability; (2) poor …

Reforms to make infrastructure services more competitive and to provide strong and independent economic regulation of … natural monopolies create an environment more conducive to private sector participation in infrastructure investments …

paper--a product of the Office of the Vice President, Infrastructure Network--is part of a larger effort in the network to …

"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 …

"Using panel data models, the author examines the threshold effects of the productivity of infrastructure investment in … particular, the productivity of infrastructure investment generally exhibits some network effects. When the available stock of … infrastructure is very low, investment in this sector has the same productivity as noninfrastructure investment. On the contrary …

"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 …

"Briceno, Estache, and Shafik review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing … to assess and monitor infrastructure needs and policies. This paper--a product of the Office of the Vice President …, Infrastructure Network--is part of a larger effort in the network to upgrade economic and policy work in infrastructure"--World Bank …