World Bank?s Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM), by separating the total capital stock into public and private portions, with the … accompanying freely downloadable Excel-based tool. It also constructs a new Infrastructure Efficiency Index (IEI), by combining …

Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities … of infrastructure on labor productivity, and the indirect impact of infrastructure on total factor productivity …

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 …

business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis … finds basic protection, access to finance and infrastructure, and the existence of a strong agglomeration environment to be …

This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample … an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation …

This paper provides a systematic, empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure quality on the total factor … productivity (TFP) of African manufacturing firms. This measure is understood to include quality in the provision of customs … TFP, and allocative efficiency. For each country the impact is evaluated based on 10 different productivity measures …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … associated with increases in within-plant productivity. In addition, plant closure (or exit) boosted productivity more than new …

infrastructure projects with high productivity effects and the crucial role of financing in determining the net effects of expanded … focus on the creation of fiscal space for increased investment in infrastructure, as well as on indicators related to macro … the World Bank for country strategy analysis. The different policy scenarios point to the importance of selecting …

, 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 …

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 …