This paper presents a meta-analysis of the infrastructure research done over more than three decades, using a database …” underlying infrastructure elasticities, accounting for publication bias, as well as for heterogeneity stemming from both study …

Policy makers have long used investing in public infrastructure as a means of reducing geographical disparities and … maximize the development impact of infrastructure. For this, the paper presents a systematic qualitative overview of the … literature, covering more than 300 studies conducted between 1983 and 2022, focusing on specific infrastructure sectors, namely …

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the infrastructure research done over more than three decades, using a database … parameters of interest, the "true" underlying infrastructure elasticities, accounting for publication bias, as well as for …

Evidence of public expenditure on infrastructure is extremely sparse. Little is known about the trends and patterns of … infrastructure expenditure, and there is no real basis for assessing the adequacy and efficiency of infrastructure spending. Drawing … on the World Bank's novel BOOST database, this paper provides a first relatively disaggregated picture of infrastructure …