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 … investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic growth mostly conclude that there exists a positive …

accompanying freely downloadable Excel-based tool. It also constructs a new Infrastructure Efficiency Index (IEI), by combining …

This report examines the role of infrastructure in explaining why the region lags so far behind the rest of the country …. More importantly, it looks at how improved infrastructure may help the region catch up. Infrastructure is examined here …

, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes …

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 …

This review examines the literature on the welfare impacts of infrastructure disruptions. There is widespread evidence … that households suffer from the consequences of a lack of infrastructure reliability, and that being connected to the grid … is not sufficient to close the infrastructure gap. Disruptions and irregular service have adverse effects on household …

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 …

variations from these projections which means that planning for resilient wastewater infrastructure requires more detailed …