infrastructure spending and improving governance in parallel is six times more effective at enhancing transport system performance …This study explores the role of governance in improving infrastructure reliability. It estimates that increasing … 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 … low- and -middle-income countries. Specifically, this study assesses the impact of transport, electricity, and water … a year-of which 107 billion dollar are due to transport disruptions, 38 billion dollar due to blackouts, and 6 billion …

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 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 …

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 …

product of common transport infrastructure. Specifically, the model builds on the framework by Caliendo and Parro (2015)-a … of transport infrastructure related to the initiative based on Geographic Information System analysis, the model shows … costs due to improvements in transportation infrastructure, financed through domestic taxation, connecting multiple …

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 …