Infrastructure refers to the basic facility required to run the daily life of the citizen of a country or city like roads, bridges, tunnels, water supplies, sewers, electricity, gas, telecommunication system, cellular network, internet connectivity and broadband speed etc. Infrastructures are...

The notion of green growth has emerged as an international policy discourse and response to climate change and ecological breakdown, designed to improve the demand-based and production-based emissions through a nation’s investments in its technological innovations and environmental-related...

Purpose – The paper aims to identify synergies between the Belt Road Initiative (BRI) and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the perspective of sustainable infrastructure development. Design/Methodology/Approach – The paper analyzes the long-run empirical relationship between...

The need for infrastructure finance in Africa is tremendous. A 2009 report by the World Bank suggests that the continent faces needs of US$93 billion per year. More recent studies, pointing to economic and population growth trends and using more sophisticated methods of assessing needs, indicate...

Infrastructure construction is one of the basic driving forces of social and economic development. Since 1978, the construction of infrastructure in the People's Republic of China (PRC) has experienced rapid development, which has given a strong impetus to the PRC's modernization. But behind the...

This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People's Republic of China. Recent policies target reductions in income inequality while increasing sustainable urban development. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both...

Using panel data of Middle East countries for the period 2007-2020, the study sheds light on the roles of infrastructure investments in mitigating climate change impacts. We introduce the extended Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKCI) framework to the extant literature on energy-growth-environment...