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 …

infrastructure. As the 'low hanging fruit' have been taken, making further progress may require the development of appropriate tools …

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 …

Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a …. Looking towards an uncertain future in which infrastructure must be made resilient towards climate change, and the value of … has provided in human security sustainable. Infrastructure investment can not only reduce spatial inequality, and provide …