-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 …

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 infrastructure in developing countries, with a focus on promoting …

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 …