-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 …

Policy recommendations for infrastructure provision usually build on a well-established understanding of best practice … ignored goes a long way toward explaining why infrastructure policies fail and why best practice can be counterproductive … consideration of how the different incentive problems in politics impede policy improvements in infrastructure. This paper addresses …

This paper examines a puzzle in the political economy of infrastructure in India -- the co-existence of relatively low … shares of capital spending in public budgets alongside evidence of large demand for village infrastructure from poor voters …. It argues that this pattern is due to infrastructure projects being used at the margin for political rent-seeking, while …

This paper uses some simple conceptual models to draw out various implications of infrastructure investments with long … infrastructure investment decisions tend to be made on the basis of (current and expected future) emissions prices that do not fully … for infrastructure investors. These issues are illustrated for two alternative cases of climate damages, namely with the …

The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative … deficiencies in infrastructure performance in Lesotho: (1) extremely low access to electricity and its affordability; (2) poor …

Infrastructure improvements boosted growth in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by one percentage …. Deficient power infrastructure held growth back by 0.1 percent. Raising the region's infrastructure to the level of Mauritius … could boost growth by 5 percentage points. Overall, infrastructure in the 15 ECOWAS countries ranks consistently behind …

Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing … within the current resource means of government. The Infrastructure Prioritization Framework is a multi-criteria decision … social cost-benefit analysis) are available, the Infrastructure Prioritization Framework can inform project selection by …

particularly acute in infrastructure investment decisions, as these often involve significant financial resources and lock …-in technologies. In regions and countries where the infrastructure access gap is large and pubic budgets severely constrained, the … the trade-offs policy makers confront when attempting to prioritize infrastructure investments, in particular with regard …

For a number of years, my research group and I have explored different aspects of the planning of large infrastructure …