Despite several severe shocks in the past, conflict, unstable governments, earthquakes, and trade disruptions, Nepal has made strong progress in reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. With the decade-long peace and constitutional process concluded, the Government of Nepal is keen to...

Preface -- The institutional and regulatory environment for public-private partnerships in infrastructure in emerging markets and developing economies / Fernanda Ruiz-Nuñez and Zichao Wei, The World Bank -- Governance institutions and the investment costs of non-conventional renewable energy...

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....

This paper analyses and compares the performance of carbon taxes and capital taxes in financing public goods with positive effects on private firm productivity. It is motivated by Franks et al. (2017), who ask whether using carbon taxes could be motivated on fiscal grounds rather than by...

US Infrastructure: An Overview of Issues and Opportunities / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Part I: Structure, Technological Innovation and Sustainability -- State of US Infrastructure: Current and Future Perspective / -- Bjorn Birgisson and Robert L. Lytton -- Technological Innovation and Intelligent...