expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …

Railways are a key infrastructure that facilitates trade and regional integration with potential consequences on local …-economic and environmental infrastructure impacts for the case of the Konkan Railway, which is one of the biggest railway … cover induced by the railways. The findings encourage policy makers – in assessing the effects of transport infrastructure …

infrastructure are shown to have long-lasting, positive effects, particularly in more rural areas. …

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

The effects of foreign aid on the endowment of recipient countries with infrastructure have received surprisingly …-in-difference-in-differences estimations, with the treatment defined as steep increases in aid for infrastructure since a distinct change in donor behavior in … 2005. Mitigating endogeneity concerns in this way, we consistently find aid for infrastructure to be ineffective in …