, particular attention is paid to the role of infrastructure as a constraining factor on trade expansion. The second part discusses … Dominican Republic -- a country where infrastructure indicators remain relatively weak. The results illustrate the potentially …

How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically …

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 …

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

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

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 …

focus on the creation of fiscal space for increased investment in infrastructure, as well as on indicators related to macro … infrastructure projects with high productivity effects and the crucial role of financing in determining the net effects of expanded … government infrastructure spending. Transfer programs can generate immediate welfare gains but are less effective over time …

In the past half a century, Egypt has experienced remarkable progress in the provision of infrastructure in all areas … perspective, Egypt has achieved an infrastructure status that closely corresponds to what could be expected given its national … income level. The present infrastructure status is the result of decades of purposeful investment. In the past 15 years …