To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied predictably with prior development - both prior roads and prior...

The Brazilian Federal Highway Concession Program use concessionaries to manage roads. They are bound by contract to improve the quality of road corridors and, in return, they are allowed to charge tolls. This article aims to analyze the effects of this Program on the economic performance of...