This paper reviews the book “Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa” by Antonio Estache and Quentin Wodon …. The authors summarize the political debate on infrastructure policy in Africa in a very compelling and knowledgeable way … welfare enhancing benefits of infrastructure investments is less conclusive than suggested in the book. The book also misses …

Using unique data from a systematic roll-out of broadband infrastructure in rural areas, we provide evidence on the …

Access to essential infrastructure services such as water, sanitation, and garbage collection can considerably affect … children's environment and may play a significant role in shaping early childhood developmental and health outcomes. Using data … America and the Caribbean (LAC), we show a significant positive association between access to water and sanitation and early …

, and sanitation, during early stages, and an emphasis on "advanced" infrastructure, such as power and especially …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 …

components of a country’s infrastructure to access international markets. I provide a framework to jointly estimate the quality … international and internal trade with port and road infrastructure to assess the relative importance of ports versus roads in … shaping international market access, and estimate it using a novel transaction-level export dataset for India. A key …

the water sector in India. An analysis of time-use data reveals that worsening public infrastructure affects market work …This paper presents new evidence on the links between public-infrastructure provisioning and time allocation related to …, with evident gender differentials. The results also suggest that access to public infrastructure can lead to substitution …

exports now come from East Asia. Strong infrastructure underpinnings have often been cited as a major factor contributing to …. Overall quantity and quality of infrastructure services remain uneven both across, and within, countries in the Asian region …. Strong investment in infrastructure is needed to support continuing efforts to achieve overall growth as well as poverty …

international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and inequality. Both international trade and … infrastructure make it easier for people to exchange goods and services and to increase income by allowing specialization, economies … constitutes a challenge. However, the answer should not be to eschew opening up the economy or building infrastructure, but to do …

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 …

the water sector in India. An analysis of time-use data reveals that worsening public infrastructure affects market work …This paper presents new evidence on the links between public-infrastructure provisioning and time allocation related to …, with evident gender differentials. The results also suggest that access to public infrastructure can lead to substitution …