Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Background -- Investment and Reform Needs -- Competition Rules and Regulatory Design -- Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Linkages between Infrastructure Reforms and Poverty -- Macroeconomic Linkages -- Microeconomic Linkages --...

"Argentina was a pioneer of infrastructure reform in the early 1990s. The social dimension of infrastructure services was typically overlooked in the reform process. However, social sensitivities often resurfaced in the years that followed, leading to a series of ad hoc social policy measures...

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the infrastructure research done over more than three decades, using a database of close to a thousand estimates from 201 papers conducted between 1983-2022, reporting outcome elasticities. The analysis casts a wide net to include the transport, energy, and...