This paper surveys the main issues and controversies in the economic literature on infrastructure in developing … countries. Section I reviews the evidence on the role of infrastructure in promoting economic growth. It is argued that …, although infrastructure may be more important for growth than other types of capital, the exact size and form of its effect is …

This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on tax revenues and on the economy of the region. In 1991 …

In this paper we analyse the economic effects of railway infrastructure at the national level for European countries as … economic impact emanating from railway infrastructure, whereby the effect appears to be even stronger for less developed … positive effects resulting from railway infrastructure on urban development. Its positive spillover effects occur within …

In Germany the government spends substantial resources on the provision of infrastructure. Apart from firms, private … infrastructure on the personal income distribution within a county. It concentrates on the short-term distributional effects … resulting from the use of the infrastructure. A theoretical overview on the relevant factors that determine these effects is …

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure … the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We … also depart from this literature by mixing principal components (to condense our institutional and infrastructure measures …

. The government is seen to produce a productive factor interpreted as infrastructure. Infrastructure is both nonrival and …