Most studies analysing the infrastructure impact on regional growth show a positive relationship between both variables … reveals both the absence of a direct effect of infrastructure and the fact that the link between infrastructure and growth … depends on the level of the existing stock (threshold level) and the way infrastructure is articulated in its location …

, employment generation, livelihood diversification and poverty reduction. Access to infrastructure is identified in some studies … by poor quality infrastructure. In this paper we use data from 4000 households in rural Indonesia to show that the … quality of two key types of infrastructure – roads and electricity – affects both employment in and income from non …