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 …

investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic growth mostly conclude that there exists a positive …How much an economy should invest in its physical infrastructure is a crucial question being asked by policy makers … question by bringing insights from the literature that investigates the relationship between infrastructure investment …

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 …

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