for peace and reconstruction. Hence, the rehabilitation of damaged transport infrastructure has emerged as an overarching … conflict on welfare and on the economic impact of transport infrastructure. The theoretical model explores how transport … infrastructure affects conflict incidence and welfare when selection into rebel groups is endogenous. The implications of the model …

The literature lends empirical support for the idea that improvements to transport infrastructure lead to economic …

of groundwater salinity on road maintenance expenditures in the coastal region of Bangladesh. The assessment draws on new … panel measures of salinity from 41 stations in coastal Bangladesh, and road maintenance expenditures, income, road network … length, and road surfaces from 20 coastal municipalities. In a model relating maintenance expenditure for paved roads to …

development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …

quantitative indicators capturing key aspects of infrastructure resilience related to the road transport sector. These indicators …Disruption of infrastructure services can cause significant social and economic losses, particularly in the event of a … natural disaster. The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment …

The infrastructure gap is one of the most significant impediments to India realizing its growth and poverty reduction … potential. Although India?s transport network is one of the most extensive in the world, accessibility and connectivity are … the rural population does not have access to an all-weather road. It is estimated that the transport sector alone will …

in connection with the all-India rural roads program Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, using an overlapping generations … and mortality. Based on survey evidence from upland Orissa in India and Bangladesh, as well as elements of more usual …

India's rural roads program, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, aims to draw villagers into the mainstream by improving … not only their terms of trade, but also their educational attainments and health. Treating each all-weather feeder road as …

poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine …

because of the nonrandom placement of road infrastructure. This endogeneity is addressed using a seemingly novel instrumental …Transport infrastructure is deemed to be central to development and consumes a large fraction of the development … assistance envelope. Yet there is debate about the economic impact of road projects. This paper proposes an approach to assess …