performance of regulation, an issue that has recently occupied much of the policy debate on the effectiveness of infrastructure … processes, the authors investigate, for the case of telecommunications, its impact on the performance of regulation in two time … some well documented results on the positive role of regulatory governance in infrastructure industries, the authors …

data from the Reserve Bank of India, to investigate the interaction between infrastructure development and financial sector …This paper uses the construction of India's Golden Quadrangle central highway network, together with comprehensive loan … with stronger initial financial development, suggesting that although financing responds to large infrastructure …

This paper examines a puzzle in the political economy of infrastructure in India -- the co-existence of relatively low … shares of capital spending in public budgets alongside evidence of large demand for village infrastructure from poor voters …. It argues that this pattern is due to infrastructure projects being used at the margin for political rent-seeking, while …

This paper analyzes analyze the impact of deregulatory reforms in India during the 1990s, which eliminated compulsory …

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

) are scored in a sample of 175 countries using data from 2006-16 on education, health, and infrastructure. The paper … need more resources than others to achieve similar education, health, and infrastructure outcomes …

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 … Partnership to focus attention on the quality dimensions of infrastructure in developing countries, with a focus on promoting …

This study argues that public infrastructure is an important though previously neglected driving mechanism of the … neoclassical growth model with heterogeneous firms, where public infrastructure contributes to firms' production and mitigates the … infrastructure in recent decades, yet remains in deep need of further infrastructure improvements. The accumulation of infrastructure …

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 …