This paper aims to investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic development of Pakistan. A … composite index of physical infrastructure has been constructed through Principal Component Analysis. This has been done by … taking into account three different dimensions of infrastructure i.e. transportation infrastructure, energy infrastructure …

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 …

placement of road infrastructure programs we employ a correlated random effects model that corrects for location …

This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investments in the reduction of poverty in Brazil, controlled through … public investment in infrastructure and poverty. The Granger causality test for panel data proposed by Hurlin and Venet (2001 …

The role of infrastructure in economic growth and welfare has been studied extensively across the literature over the … public infrastructure investment. Two approaches to public investment are considered in our simulations. In the first …, production taxes finance the additional public infrastructure investment and in the second, foreign borrowing provides resources …

environment, infrastructure, governance and international cooperation in Canada. Key themes discussed include global and national …