This paper documents the potential employment and other value-added benefits of infrastructure investments in Ontario …. In particular, it details the impact of infrastructure investment as a counter-cyclical fiscal policy tool. A review of … the recent literature reveals that infrastructure investment serves both as a tool for job creation and as a stimulus for …

Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has … resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both hard and soft infrastructure on trade … improvements in transport infrastructure (i.e., the road density network, air transport, railways, ports, and logistics) have …

Core infrastructure, which covers transportation, information and communication (ICT), energy, water and sanitation … systems, plays a significant role in economic growth. The development of core infrastructure - one of the European Union (EU … addressing the identified issues is needed to assess the impact of infrastructure on economic growth and convergence …

The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth via various channels including reducing transaction costs and raising … productivity. Another mechanism emphasized in this paper is that infrastructure investment can promote urbanization through …

that are compatible with them are infrastructure, physical and institutional, investments supported by the EU and …

We examine the evolution of infrastructure, and the impact of infrastructure investment, in middleincome countries … (MICs). We document how different types of infrastructure stocks, as well as infrastructure investment, vary with the level … provision of infrastructure varies across development stages; there is a focus on basic infrastructure, such as transport, water …

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic … effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT …)-based evaluation, is difficult in the context of large-scale infrastructure. Second, while micro studies so far have focused on the …

process sustains it. This paper also supports the hypothesis that investment in infrastructure and fixed assets, which has … between different types of infrastructure leads to the formation of the core-periphery pattern …