expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …

Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service …

It is widely accepted that investing in public infrastructure promotes economic development. However, there is little … awareness of the prevalence of unfinished infrastructure projects and their consequences. In this paper, I study the effect of … unfinished sewerage infrastructure on early-life mortality in Peru. I compile several sources of administrative panel data for 1 …

What determines the aggregate and distributional effects of new transportation infrastructure? One key overlooked … channel is the role that infrastructure policy plays in changing the incentives of firms to enter, exit, and grow--in turn … infrastructure. Firms play a critical role in driving these results: highways increase firms' size, entry rates, survival rates, and …

, substantial amounts of public money could be raised and used to cover the population’s infrastructure needs, such as access to …

investment needs for infrastructure providing access to water, sanitation, electricity, telecommunications and transport. In this …

demand for public expenditures such as infrastructure investments but they are constrained by international tax competition …. With carbon taxes the rents can be captured and invested in infrastructure, which leads to higher welfare than under …