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 …

returns to nonbeneficiary countries in recent years. Rather, it shows that public infrastructure, such as paved roads, has an …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … to a varying extent. In Ethiopia, the impact of market share reallocations among survivors tended to be larger than those … the pattern here is opposite to that in Ethiopia in that in Côte d'Ivoire entering (or newly opening) plants have larger …

This paper provides a systematic, empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure quality on the total factor … countries are divided into two blocks: high-income-growth and low-income-growth. Infrastructure quality has a low impact on TFP … heterogeneity in the individual infrastructure elements affecting countries from both blocks. Poor-quality electricity provision …

of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …

Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about …, perhaps even more than physical damage to infrastructure, hinders private-sector-led recovery, as irreversible investment is … can permit accelerated rehabilitation of the infrastructure (especially transport networks) needed to return to a market …

Governance is central to development outcomes in infrastructure, not least because corruption (a symptom of failed … governance) can have significantly negative impact on returns to infrastructure investment. This conclusion holds whether … infrastructure is in private or public hands. This paper looks at what has been learned about the role of governance in …

Projects and reforms targeting infrastructure services can affect consumer welfare through changes in the price … in the quality of infrastructure services within the broader theoretical perspective of welfare measurement. The study … applications of a new approach to analyzing the effects of interruptions in the supply of infrastructure services on household …

The authors examine the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade … bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. The authors depart from the institutions and infrastructure literature in this … components (to condense the institutional and infrastructure measures) with a focus on deviations in the resulting indexes from …