Infrastructure made a net contribution of just over two percentage points to Botswana's improved per capita growth … performance in recent years. Raising the country?s infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries could … boost annual growth by about 1.2 percentage points. Botswana has made significant infrastructure progress in recent years …

public transport networks. Capturing the increase in land value caused by transport infrastructure (for example, through a … improvements in public transport infrastructure in Paris, France. To apply in places where models or data are not available, a … potentials are influenced by what happens in the entire agglomeration. Simultaneous infrastructure investments in different parts …

Despite strong economic growth, investment in basic urban infrastructure -- water supply, wastewater removal and … infrastructure deficit. At the same time, urban lands in these many developing countries are among the most expensive in the world …'s urban areas would show an asset mix strong on public-sector landholdings but weak on infrastructure. This raises the …

that sometimes stand in the way of efficient completion of urban infrastructure networks. At the same time, urban India is … deficient in basic infrastructure -- both network infrastructure needed to support economic growth and urban service … infrastructure needed to meet basic household needs like water supply, waste removal, and transportation. This condition raises …

) accommodating urban expansion, (ii) providing infrastructure, and (iii) managing density. Together, the planning for infrastructure … global experience on using land based instruments to accommodate urban development and financing infrastructure. The review …

infrastructure with a view to identifying areas where India could improve its system of financing infrastructure in cities. Based on … international data, the analysis shows that there is indeed a wide range of models for funding municipal infrastructure across a …

decentralized fiscal system, in which provinces and large cities are given the freedom to make infrastructure investments to … important. The authors recommend greater use of the revenue streams from infrastructure assets as a financing source, and …

infrastructure is the responsibility of local government. Although many challenges remain, the country has made significant progress … most revenues in the larger urban centers raised locally through a combination of local taxes and fees for services, while … poorer regions are predominantly grant funded. The objective has been to encourage the financing of capital infrastructure …

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