Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service …

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 …

How can infrastructure help to reduce the gender education gap in developing countries? In this paper, I analyze the … importance of well-functioning infrastructure for the accessibility of secondary schools and the empowering of girls in India. …

-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … Asia region's rates of access to infrastructure (sanitation, electricity, telecom, and transport) are closer to those of … of access across time, that is, across generations. It finds that while the regressivity of infrastructure services is …

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 …

infrastructure. The Indian government finds it difficult to provide the required financial and technical resources and the executive … increasing pressure from its citizens, NGO's and the media to provide accessible and affordable infrastructure and basic services … potential of bridging the infrastructure gap. This research aims to identify the various political, legal, financial, policy and …