This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …

local innovation due to an increased entry, productivity, and specialization of independent inventors. As the railroad …

Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since … the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present … paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure for trade by means of meta-analysis and meta-regression techniques …

Can infrastructure investment win "hearts and minds"? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship …

This paper reviews the book “Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa” by Antonio Estache and Quentin Wodon …. The authors summarize the political debate on infrastructure policy in Africa in a very compelling and knowledgeable way … welfare enhancing benefits of infrastructure investments is less conclusive than suggested in the book. The book also misses …

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic … effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT …)-based evaluation, is difficult in the context of large-scale infrastructure. Second, while micro studies so far have focused on the …

There is renewed interest in a significant economic stimulus package to build and improve public works infrastructure … infrastructure provision and putting unemployed individuals back to work is likely to result in a double disappointment: while some … hired directly from the unemployment lines.Infrastructure spending should be evaluated mostly on the merits and value of the …

This paper provides methodologies for evaluating consumer benefits of infrastructure services using potentially … the economic benefits when prices are allowed to change endogenously as the provision of infrastructure services changes …

achieve the economic prosperity of peoples/society, various studies reveals that infrastructure is necessary for industrial … development. It is also necessary to make plan for effort required for industrial infrastructure development in the state of …