railway infrastructure in colonial India. Railways had an immediate impact on trade and development in the predominantly … agricultural India. In this paper, we show that the positive effects of railways have persisted over more than a century. Districts …

category with an average PCNSDP much above India’s, and they managed to grow in terms of their infrastructure endowments. They …India witnessed high levels of growth in the last decade but national levels of poverty and inequality remain high …. Infrastructure provision is seen as a particularly important instrument for helping in regional development where government can play …

sector involvement in the provision of civil infrastructure / Richard Little -- Infrastructure development in India and China …Rethinking infrastructure development / William Ascher and Corinne Krupp -- Distributional implications of alternative … financing of physical infrastructure development / William Ascher and Corinne Krupp -- Beyond privatization : rethinking private …

This paper examines a puzzle in the political economy of infrastructure in India - the co-existence of relatively low … shares of capital spending in public budgets alongside evidence of large demand for village infrastructure from poor voters …. It argues that this pattern is due to infrastructure projects being used at the margin for political rent-seeking, while …