the 2009–10 winter weather disaster in Mongolia, by comparing herders’ adaptation strategies and adaptive capacity in … Mongolia. …

. We undertake a systematic empirical analysis of productivity in the Indian Railways—the world’s largest employer subject … have reduced efficiency in the railway system. We find no evidence for such an effect; indeed, some of our results suggest …

infrastructure sectors. This paper explores how city characteristics, spatial pressures, and other institutional forces condition the … extent of liberalization reforms in local infrastructure markets. The findings advance the policy diffusion literature by …

This paper examines why private participation in infrastructure (PPI) in water continues to be promoted despite poor … results in developing countries. It argues that the main characteristics of infrastructure discourage private investment and …

manufacturing but not in services. The key factors explaining Africa’s disadvantage at the firm level are lack of infrastructure …

the endogeneity and the function misspecification issues in estimating the returns to infrastructure and private capital … Chinese provinces were under-invested in infrastructure, whereas in 2008 most of the western provinces were over-invested in … infrastructure. Such findings suggest that the nationwide large-scale infrastructure investment enacted by the Chinese government …

. Distances to physical infrastructure are often not representative of farmers’ access to markets; changes in specific market …

To meet its infrastructure needs, the Middle East needs to invest, on average, around 6% of its GDP annually, although … infrastructure-related jobs. Because of significant differences in financing opportunities, fiscal constraints could be binding for … the poorest countries. The effectiveness of job creation from infrastructure will depend on the quality of targeting and …

developed transport and communications infrastructure. While we emphasize exports of developing countries, low institutional and …We work with a panel of bilateral trade, exploring the influence of infrastructure and institutional quality on … infrastructure quality in the South also limits market access for exports from the North. The pattern of results implies that policy …