Underground infrastructure installation is prevalent in Belgium and both maintenance and new installations will lead to … costs. The second approach indicates how existing planning of road works of several infrastructure owners can be mapped to … each other. The planned road works can be rescheduled to optimize overlap between infrastructure owners and group smaller …

infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean. To measure the impact of the economic and social aspects of this type of … infrastructure, the analysis differentiates according to the geographic context (urban and rural), gender, and educational level, and … details the effects and channels that link the deployment of last-mile infrastructure with socioeconomic benefits. The results …

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic … effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT …)-based evaluation, is difficult in the context of large-scale infrastructure. Second, while micro studies so far have focused on the …

Can infrastructure investment win "hearts and minds"? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship …

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 relation between infrastructure and economic growth has been largely investigated in the literature, but the … empirical evidence found has proven to be controversial. This paper aims to empirically analyze the impact of infrastructure … stocks on economic growth. In spite of there being theoretical justification for taking infrastructure into account in …

This review examines the literature on the welfare impacts of infrastructure disruptions. There is widespread evidence … that households suffer from the consequences of a lack of infrastructure reliability, and that being connected to the grid … is not sufficient to close the infrastructure gap. Disruptions and irregular service have adverse effects on household …

The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth via various channels including reducing transaction costs and raising … productivity. Another mechanism emphasized in this paper is that infrastructure investment can promote urbanization through …