If the South Asia region hopes to meet its development goals and not risk slowing down or even halting growth, poverty … 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 …

This paper investigates the role of fiscal guarantees in promoting infrastructure investment. Infrastructure is a … critical driver of economic growth, but infrastructure entails significant up-front costs that yield benefits after a time lag …. Investors hesitate to put their money down on private infrastructure ventures because of the long lag and governments do not …

The paper addresses the issue of the feasible level of private finance in a contracting model of infrastructure finding …

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 …

This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and …

This paper argues for a novel approach to financing infrastructure needs in Arab countries. It first describes the … context of rising public debt in the region, contrasting it with the vast infrastructure needs. It then discusses the …

persistent infrastructure financing gap in developing countries has motivated some governments to encourage their sovereign …

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 …