infrastructure spending and improving governance in parallel is six times more effective at enhancing transport system performance …This study explores the role of governance in improving infrastructure reliability. It estimates that increasing … infrastructure maintenance is as effective as 1.5 dollar of new investments in many OECD economies. Overall, the evidence in this …

This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … low- and -middle-income countries. Specifically, this study assesses the impact of transport, electricity, and water … a year-of which 107 billion dollar are due to transport disruptions, 38 billion dollar due to blackouts, and 6 billion …

Appropriate and effective regulatory frameworks remain crucial for ensuring that investments in infrastructure are done … strategically and efficiently. Benchmarking infrastructure development 2020 assesses the regulatory quality for preparation …, procurement, and management of large infrastructure projects through both public-private partnerships (PPPs) and traditional …

This report provides a gender review of a decade and a half of World Bank infrastructure lending for 1,246 projects …. The objective of this review is to assess the status of and trends in gender integration in the World Bank infrastructure … 2006 gender action plan. The portfolio review reveals important progress on gender integration in infrastructure operations …

Resilience against infrastructure failure is essential for ensuring the health and safety of communities during and …, and damages to critical infrastructure is essential for developing robust approaches to increasing resilience. Identifying … relevant in areas recovering from a natural hazard that have the opportunity to build back their infrastructure, and for those …

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 …

product of common transport infrastructure. Specifically, the model builds on the framework by Caliendo and Parro (2015)-a … of transport infrastructure related to the initiative based on Geographic Information System analysis, the model shows … costs due to improvements in transportation infrastructure, financed through domestic taxation, connecting multiple …

"This report lays out a framework for understanding infrastructure resilience - the ability of infrastructure systems …

Infrastructure services are significant determinants of economic development, social welfare, trade, and public health …. As such, they typically feature strongly in national development plans. While governments may receive many infrastructure …-Nunez and Wei, 2014; World Bank). Global estimates of infrastructure investments required to support economic growth and human …