This edition of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics presents selected papers from the ABCDE … Meetings, held May 29-30, 2006, in Tokyo, Japan. This volume presents papers on Infrastructure for Growth - emerging issues …; sustainable development and infrastructure - climate change, clean energy, and energy efficiency; rural infrastructure and …

"In infrastructure, the possibility of a positive relationship between operators' profitability and the degree of … assessments of the degree of concentration in infrastructure at the global and the regional levels. Concentration issues were … not be equipped to address. This paper--a product of the Office of the Vice President, Infrastructure Network--is part of …

infrastructure and regional cooperation. Fran??ois Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank … and discussion of new knowledge on development. It is an opportunity for many of the world's finest development thinkers … -- was devoted to "Rethinking Infrastructure for Development." The conference opened with remarks by Sadakazu Tanigaki, Japan …

Global instant payment and its underlying infrastructure evolution are commonly referred to as fragmentation, with the …, and service integration, that characterize the evolution of global instant payment infrastructure. Drawing upon four … between these evolution mechanisms and qualities. We find that the evolution of global instant payment infrastructure is …