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 … dollar due to dryouts. Moreover, this study shows that electricity outages are causing sales losses equivalent to 82 billion …

factors, including investments in infrastructure resilience and maintenance …

Entrepreneurs in developing countries report that unreliable electricity imposes a serious constraint, yet little …

sector TIMES model and a computable general equilibrium model. The study finds that the price of electricity in China would … to operate the power system. The reduction in the price of electricity would spill over throughout the economy, resulting …

Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid … extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor … households' willingness-to-pay for different types of electricity access, including lower cost off-grid technologies. The …

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 …

. Overall, between 0.1 and 0.2 percent of GDP would be lost each year because of unreliable infrastructure-electricity, water …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 …

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 …