Does investment in social infrastructure affect the productivity of manufacturing firms in developing countries? To … test this question, I empirically investigate the impact of social infrastructure indicators at district level on firm … productivity using firm level data from Pakistan. I split my sample into rural and urban regions to capture the effect of regional …

This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … substantial drag that unreliable infrastructure imposes on firms in developing countries. Yet, these figures are likely to be …

This review examines the literature on the role of infrastructure in determining the productivity and competitiveness …, water, and telecommunications systems increases firm-level productivity. It also shows that providing infrastructure per se … of firms. It shows that the existing evidence base is clear in concluding that reliable and high-quality infrastructure …