higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance …We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …

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 …

higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance …We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …

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 …

This paper examines trends in infrastructure investment and its financing in low-income developing countries (LIDCs …). Following an acceleration of public investment over the last 15 years, the stock of infrastructure assets increased in LIDCs …, even though large gaps remain compared to emerging markets. Infrastructure in LIDCs is largely provided by the public …

performance - affordable and efficient public infrastructure and services - remains lacking in this region - notably, in Sub …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …