Infrastructure contributed 0.6 percentage points to Ethiopia's annual per capita GDP growth over the last decade … percentage points to infrastructure's contribution to growth. Ethiopia's infrastructure successes include developing Ethiopia … poor institutional and regulatory framework. Addressing Ethiopia's infrastructure deficit will require a sustained annual …

Infrastructure contributed 1.3 percentage points to Tanzania's annual per capital GDP growth during the 2000s. If the … country's infrastructure endowment were improved to the level of the African leader, Mauritius, annual per capita growth rates … transport sectors in Africa. The power sector poses Tanzania's most serious infrastructure challenge. Despite significant …

Infrastructure improvements contributed 0.6 percentage points to Zambia's annual per capital GDP growth over the past … the growth rate down by more than 0.1 percentage points. Improving Zambia's infrastructure endowment could boost growth by … every other aspect of infrastructure, rural Zambians lag well behind their African peers. In a country where 70 percent of …

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 paper explores the benefits and the costs of strengthening infrastructure assets to make them more resilient …, reducing the repair costs and infrastructure disruptions caused by natural hazards. Strengthening infrastructure assets in low … billion and $65 billion a year, i.e. 3 percent of baseline infrastructure investment needs. The uncertainty pertaining to the …

data from the Reserve Bank of India, to investigate the interaction between infrastructure development and financial sector … with stronger initial financial development, suggesting that although financing responds to large infrastructure …

Academics and policy makers have long considered an adequate supply of infrastructure services to be essential for … economic development. This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of infrastructure … the drivers of income growth, the degree to which infrastructure represents a public or a private good, and the extent of …

-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … Asia region's rates of access to infrastructure (sanitation, electricity, telecom, and transport) are closer to those of … of access across time, that is, across generations. It finds that while the regressivity of infrastructure services is …

alleviation, and shared prosperity, it is essential to make closing its huge infrastructure gap a priority. Identifying and …, practical, and effective infrastructure development choices. This study addresses this knowledge gap by focusing on the current … status of infrastructure sectors and geographical disparities, real levels of investment and private sector participation …