This edition of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics presents selected papers from the ABCDE … Meetings, held May 29-30, 2006, in Tokyo, Japan. This volume presents papers on Infrastructure for Growth - emerging issues …; sustainable development and infrastructure - climate change, clean energy, and energy efficiency; rural infrastructure and …

infrastructure and regional cooperation. Fran??ois Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank … and discussion of new knowledge on development. It is an opportunity for many of the world's finest development thinkers … -- was devoted to "Rethinking Infrastructure for Development." The conference opened with remarks by Sadakazu Tanigaki, Japan …

Despite extensive policy discussion, limited empirical literature is available concerning the impacts of infrastructure … on human development. Furthermore, major infrastructure services, such as transport and energy, are missing in the … current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework; although there is a firm consensus that infrastructure is the main …

This edition of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics presents selected papers from the ABCDE … Meetings, held May 29-30, 2006, in Tokyo, Japan. This volume presents papers on Infrastructure for Growth - emerging issues …; sustainable development and infrastructure - climate change, clean energy, and energy efficiency; rural infrastructure and …