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 …

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 …

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 review examines the literature on the welfare impacts of infrastructure disruptions. There is widespread evidence … that households suffer from the consequences of a lack of infrastructure reliability, and that being connected to the grid … is not sufficient to close the infrastructure gap. Disruptions and irregular service have adverse effects on household …

Considerable work has been done to understand and improve the resilience of individual infrastructure components … one infrastructure affects others, is a major source of vulnerability which can lead to catastrophic disruptions of … lifeline infrastructure systems rely on electricity. In this study we review the literature and give a primer on the …

This review examines the literature on the role of infrastructure in determining the productivity and competitiveness … of firms. It shows that the existing evidence base is clear in concluding that reliable and high-quality infrastructure …, water, and telecommunications systems increases firm-level productivity. It also shows that providing infrastructure per se …

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 …'s BOOST database. Two of these proxies rely on the World Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure database to capture …