relative effects of physical and social infrastructure on living standards or poverty indicators are examined, with a view to … providing empirical evidence on the implications of increased urban infrastructure for the urban poor. The paper employs … though infrastructure in general reduces poverty, social infrastructure explains a higher proportion of the forecast error in …

Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms … stimulate local infrastructure supply? And how do local efforts compare with national decisions of placing inter-regional trunk … infrastructure? In this paper, we examine how the combination of local and national infrastructure supply improve city …

role of economic factors such as the lack of agglomeration economies and poor infrastructure in urban Africa. …

examined taking the case of roads. -- land lease ; efficiency of cities ; India ; urban infrastructure finance ; stochastic …

infrastructure projects are discrete, risky, and costly. South African companies have tended to go it alone, with minimal commitment …

quantitative data on Colombian infrastructure contracts, we demonstrate that municipalities exhibit an 'electoral contracting cycle … Marta, reinforce that infrastructure contractors provide a critical source of campaign finance and can create subnational …

Bangladesh. Conclusion: Many study facilities were deficient in the basic infrastructure necessary for providing basic surgical …

processing, and infrastructure, and finds that the policies used have mostly not lived up to expectations. Finally, the outline … use of infrastructure, (v) a strong role for local government, and (vi) accurate information and monitoring. …

of a major road bridge to identify the impact of enhanced domestic transport infrastructure on agricultural market … that new infrastructure can enhance market performance, but such benefits are spatially limited. …