This study explores the role of governance in improving infrastructure reliability. It estimates that increasing … infrastructure spending and improving governance in parallel is six times more effective at enhancing transport system performance … infrastructure maintenance is as effective as 1.5 dollar of new investments in many OECD economies. Overall, the evidence in this …

The paper provides the first consistently estimated data set on infrastructure investments in low- and middle …-income countries. To do so, the authors identify three possible proxies for infrastructure investments: two are variants on gross fixed …'s BOOST database. Two of these proxies rely on the World Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure database to capture …

, health care, and the achievement of many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public …. It includes specific discussion of each infrastructure sector, with a focus on the strategic and policy issues essential … for successful development of infrastructure through PPPs. This second edition includes new sections on institutional …

Public-private partnership (PPP)-based infrastructure projects generally face many risks and uncertainties at all … the development of infrastructure projects and its broad dimensions, it is important to accurately identify and evaluate … standards, lack of support infrastructure have the greatest impact on these projects. Finally, the results of FTOPSIS similarity …

Sierra Leone has made significant strides to rebuild its public infrastructure after the devastating civil war, but the … desperate infrastructure needs remain. At the end of the conflict in 2002, the country was left with virtually no infrastructure …. Redevelopment of public infrastructure was ignited by the mining boom, which started in the late 2000s. Over the period 2008a-18 …

This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …