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 …

The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … of comparator countries using a new World Bank international data base with objective and perception-based indicators of … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative …

natural disaster. The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment …Disruption of infrastructure services can cause significant social and economic losses, particularly in the event of a … 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 …

-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 …

focus on the creation of fiscal space for increased investment in infrastructure, as well as on indicators related to macro … the World Bank for country strategy analysis. The different policy scenarios point to the importance of selecting … infrastructure projects with high productivity effects and the crucial role of financing in determining the net effects of expanded …

Uganda has made substantial progress on its infrastructure agenda in recent years. The early and successful ICT reform …'s infrastructure challenges will require sustained expenditure of around $1.4 billion per year over the next decade, strongly skewed … towards capital expenditure. Uganda already spends approximately $1 billion per year on infrastructure, equivalent to about 11 …