The objective of the project (IDA credit of $100 million over the period 1997-2001) was to assist the Government of Ghana to increase economic growth by (a) maintaining, rehabilitating and reconstructing roads and (b) ensuring sustained improvements in the road sector by (i) developing and...

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...