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Infrastructure and finance : evidence from India's GQ highway network

Das, Abhiman; Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, William R.; … - 2019

This paper uses the construction of India's Golden Quadrangle central highway network, together with comprehensive loan data from the Reserve Bank of India, to investigate the interaction between infrastructure development and financial sector depth. The paper identifies a disproportionate...

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Methodology and findings for the exposure analysis of the Chinese wastewater sector to flooding and earthquakes hazards : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : back...

Hu, Xi; Pant, Raghav; Zorn, Conrad; Lim, Weeho; Koks, Elco - 2019

This paper describes the methodology and findings for the extreme hazard exposure analysis of the Chinese wastewater sector to flooding and earthquakes hazards. This analysis is undertaken for changing flooding, under climate scenarios, and earthquake exposure of a spatially accurate wastewater...

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Resilience and critical power system infrastructure : lessons learned from natural disasters and future research needs : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : backg...

Schweikert, Amy; Nield, Lindsey; Otto, Erica; Deinert, Mark - 2019

Resilience against infrastructure failure is essential for ensuring the health and safety of communities during and following natural hazard situations. Understanding how natural hazards impact society in terms of economic cost, recovery time, and damages to critical infrastructure is essential...

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Attracting investors to African public-private partnerships : a project preparation guide

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Meeting the sustainable development goal for electricity access : using a multi-scenario approach to understand the cost drivers of power infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa : bey...

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This paper explores the investments needed to achieve universal access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 …

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Are they really being served? : assessing effective infrastructure access and quality in 15 Kenyan cities

Gulyani, Sumila; Rizvi, Andrea; Talukdar, Debabrata - 2019

This paper proposes a framework that examines three levels of access to infrastructure-nominal, effective, and quality-adjusted access. Most conventional indicators measure nominal access-whether a household has physical access to a service in or near the house. By contrast, effective access...

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Dynamics of Rural Growth in Bangladesh : Sustaining Poverty Reduction

World Bank Group - 2016

The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The...

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Sector Diagnostic and Analysis of Public Spending in Agriculture and Rural Development

World Bank Group - 2019

agriculture and rural development in Croatia, as the country prepares its National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy and …) in the context of the macro-trends and issues affecting Croatian agriculture today, the ongoing EU CAP reform process … range of strategic themes related to agriculture and rural development in Croatia, including (i) Croatian agricultural …

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Measuring Rural Access : Update 2017/18

World Bank Group - 2019

developing countries, particularly in Africa, most people are still not connected to local, regional, or global markets. Such …

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Dynamics of rural growth in Bangladesh : sustaining poverty reduction

Gautam, Madhur; Faruqee, Rashid - 2016 - Online-Ausg.

agriculture -- Growth of the non-farm sector and its drivers -- Connecting farmers to markets : trading in high-value products …

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