This paper reviews the book “Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa” by Antonio Estache and Quentin Wodon …. The authors summarize the political debate on infrastructure policy in Africa in a very compelling and knowledgeable way … welfare enhancing benefits of infrastructure investments is less conclusive than suggested in the book. The book also misses …

placement of road infrastructure programs we employ a correlated random effects model that corrects for location …

This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investments in the reduction of poverty in Brazil, controlled through … public investment in infrastructure and poverty. The Granger causality test for panel data proposed by Hurlin and Venet (2001 …