This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … low- and -middle-income countries. Specifically, this study assesses the impact of transport, electricity, and water … a year-of which 107 billion dollar are due to transport disruptions, 38 billion dollar due to blackouts, and 6 billion …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity … with measures of spatial inequality based on remotely-sensed data, we analyse the effects of transport projects on the … immediate periphery. Transport projects decentralize activity particularly strongly in regions that are more urbanized, located …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity … with measures of spatial inequality based on remotely-sensed data, we analyze the effects of transport projects on the … immediate periphery. Transport projects decentralize activity particularly strongly in regions that are more urbanized, located …

Rethinking infrastructure development / William Ascher and Corinne Krupp -- Distributional implications of alternative … financing of physical infrastructure development / William Ascher and Corinne Krupp -- Beyond privatization : rethinking private … sector involvement in the provision of civil infrastructure / Richard Little -- Infrastructure development in India and China …

This report provides a gender review of a decade and a half of World Bank infrastructure lending for 1,246 projects …. The objective of this review is to assess the status of and trends in gender integration in the World Bank infrastructure … 2006 gender action plan. The portfolio review reveals important progress on gender integration in infrastructure operations …