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Ghana's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Foster, Vivien - 2017

Infrastructure contributed just over one percentage point to Ghana's annual per capital GDP growth during the 2000s … rate by more than 2.7 percentage points. Ghana has an advanced infrastructure platform when compared with other low … water supply sectors. Ghana?s most pressing challenges lie in the power sector, where outmoded transmission and distribution …

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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies

Melecky, Martin - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare, social inclusion, and environmental quality. The analysis uses district-level data for 1994-2011 and the difference-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways...

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The Poverty Impact of Rural Roads : Evidence from Bangladesh

Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2006

The rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to use labor and capital more efficiently. But significant knowledge gaps remain as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into household...

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Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPP? PPP Practice and Contract Cancellation

Marcelo, Darwin - 2017

Learning from experience to improve future infrastructure public-private partnerships is a focal issue for policy makers, financiers, implementers, and private sector stakeholders. An extensive body of case studies and "lessons learned" aims to improve the likelihood of success and attempts to...

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How Much Will the Belt and Road Initiative Reduce Trade Costs?

de Soyres, Francois - 2018

This paper studies the impact of transport infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative on shipment times and trade costs. Based on a new data on completed and planned Belt and Road transport projects, Geographic Information System analysis is used to estimate shipment times before...

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Prioritizing Infrastructure Investments : A Comparative Review of Applications in Chile

Marcelo, Darwin - 2018

Governments worldwide face the difficult challenge of deciding which infrastructure projects to prioritize and select for implementation, given the limits of available funding and the need to attain their developmental goals. The key objective of this report is to conduct a comparative exercise...

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Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization : Application to the Road Transport Sector

Marcelo, Darwin - 2018

Disruption of infrastructure services can cause significant social and economic losses, particularly in the event of a natural disaster. The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership to focus attention on the quality dimensions of...

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Common Transport Infrastructure : A Quantitative Model and Estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative

de Soyres, Francois - 2019

This paper presents a structural general equilibrium model to analyze the effects on trade, welfare, and gross domestic product of common transport infrastructure. Specifically, the model builds on the framework by Caliendo and Parro (2015) -- a Ricardian model with sectoral linkages, trade in...

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Assessing Rural Accessibility and Rural Roads Investment Needs Using Open Source Data

Mikou, Mehdi - 2019

Rural accessibility is the only metric used in the Sustainable Development Goals to track progress toward better transport services in low- and middle-income countries. This paper estimates the rural accessibility index, defined as the proportion of the rural population who live within 2...

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Hitting the Trillion Mark -- a Look at How Much Countries are Spending on Infrastructure

Fay, Marianne - 2019

The paper provides the first consistently estimated data set on infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income countries. To do so, the authors identify three possible proxies for infrastructure investments: two are variants on gross fixed capital formation from national accounts system...

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