Many investments in infrastructure are built on the belief that they will ineluctably lead to poverty reduction and … impact on poverty than expected. Isolation from a tarred road is found to have no direct impact on consumption expenditures … access to roads is only one factor contributing to poverty reduction (and not necessarily the most important in many cases …

This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on … agricultural productivity, and using subdistrict level panel data from Bangladesh, this paper finds significant positive effects of …

Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities … alternative measures of productivity, the prevalence of ambiguous (countervailing signs) results, with little systematic pattern …

about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results … and poverty-reducing effects, even after imputations for the potential home earnings of migrants …

Transport connectivity is among the most important factors in increasing firm productivity and accelerating economic …

The infrastructure gap is one of the most significant impediments to India realizing its growth and poverty reduction … entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …

. Furthermore, in the communities most affected by the El Ni?o drought, the likelihood of falling into poverty was 14.4 percent …