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 …

This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … substantial drag that unreliable infrastructure imposes on firms in developing countries. Yet, these figures are likely to be …

This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African … affected by floods. It further details how transport infrastructure is subjected to significant flood risk that … of natural hazards on urban infrastructure networks …

political bias in road infrastructure investment in a democratic setting, focusing on the case of Mexico. Using a regression …

Disruption of infrastructure services can cause significant social and economic losses, particularly in the event of a … natural disaster. The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment … Partnership to focus attention on the quality dimensions of infrastructure in developing countries, with a focus on promoting …

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 …

The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of … emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure, due to their vast geographic reach, generate more complex and …

with East Asia and the Pacific accounting for 55 percent of infrastructure investments and Africa 4 percent. The public …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 …

Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects … upgrading in transport infrastructure; and (iii) products that use time sensitive inputs and countries that are highly exposed … to the new infrastructure and integrated in global value chains have larger trade gains …