This study analyzes the determinants of stress in public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure investment … in project design; (ii) many of the World Bank's indices of governance quality lead to perverse outcomes, suggesting that …

Rationale for green infrastructure finance framework -- Economic rationale of green investments -- Conceptual …

across world regions and by investigating the contribution of transport and communication infrastructure in promoting … analysis further finds strong interaction between infrastructure and being a landlocked country. This suggests that growth … spillovers from regional "success stories" in Sub-Saharan Africa and other lagging world regions will depend on first …

Academics and policy makers have long considered an adequate supply of infrastructure services to be essential for … economic development. This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of infrastructure … the drivers of income growth, the degree to which infrastructure represents a public or a private good, and the extent of …

"The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … comparator countries using a new World Bank international data base with objective and perception-based indicators of … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative …