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This study explores the role of governance in improving infrastructure reliability. It estimates that increasing … infrastructure spending and improving governance in parallel is six times more effective at enhancing transport system performance … infrastructure maintenance is as effective as 1.5 dollar of new investments in many OECD economies. Overall, the evidence in this …
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's BOOST database. Two of these proxies rely on the World Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure database to capture …The paper provides the first consistently estimated data set on infrastructure investments in low- and middle …-income countries. To do so, the authors identify three possible proxies for infrastructure investments: two are variants on gross fixed …
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infrastructure investment and regional cooperation. The initiative has the potential to accelerate significantly the rate of economic … infrastructure improvements on Belt and Road Initiative and non-Belt and Road Initiative countries' trade flows, growth, and poverty …. The analysis captures the trade costs reductions as a result of infrastructure improvements. The findings indicate that …
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variations from these projections which means that planning for resilient wastewater infrastructure requires more detailed …
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Resilience against infrastructure failure is essential for ensuring the health and safety of communities during and …, and damages to critical infrastructure is essential for developing robust approaches to increasing resilience. Identifying … relevant in areas recovering from a natural hazard that have the opportunity to build back their infrastructure, and for those …
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This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … disruptions in 137 low- and middle-income countries, representing 78 percent of the world population and 80 percent of the GDP of … substantial drag that unreliable infrastructure imposes on firms in developing countries. Yet, these figures are likely to be …
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factors, including investments in infrastructure resilience and maintenance …
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