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 …

public-private partnerships (PPP) to finance, develop, manage and operate water infrastructure facilities. However, as in the … case of other public infrastructure projects, not all PPPs in the water sector have been successful. Using cases of both … infrastructure projects with private sector participation and whether PPPs have a future in water infrastructure development in …

for development of water, sanitation, and infrastructure projects in Latin America' workshop on November 23-25, 2009. This …

infrastructure, it is reasonable to predict that we will find ourselves back in the same position in another forty years. Moreover …, the use of twentieth-century infrastructure will continue to exacerbate climate change through its large energy costs and …. Technologies are readily available to forge a more sustainable infrastructure path for the next forty years. It is largely a matter …