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 …

Without realizing the importance of soft infrastructure, hard infrastructure cannot ensure a significant impact on …. This paper highlights where Central Asia and Caucasia regions stand in terms of physical and soft infrastructure. A gradual … improvement in physical infrastructure is observed, however, the infrastructure development pattern is uneven. Tajikistan and the …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of infrastructure on trade in the case of Central Asian countries …. Infrastructure is measured by the aspects of quality and quantity in three Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic … and quantity of infrastructure in Central Asia have a positive impact on trade flows. However, estimations by country …

It is widely accepted that investing in public infrastructure promotes economic development. However, there is little … awareness of the prevalence of unfinished infrastructure projects and their consequences. In this paper, I study the effect of … unfinished sewerage infrastructure on early-life mortality in Peru. I compile several sources of administrative panel data for 1 …

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 …