adequate infrastructure exists within their community. This study uses data from the 2013 Chinese Household Finance Survey to … investigate how the infrastructure affects the usage of formal bank loans for both urban and rural households in the People …'s Republic of China (PRC). The analysis is extended to investigate the impacts of the infrastructure on non-bank loans. The …

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. Disruptions and irregular service have adverse effects on household …

infrastructure services. In this paper, we use Demographic and Health Surveys from a larger sample of sub-Saharan African countries …) telephone has increased rapidly. The decline has been primarily in the urban areas while the infrastructure coverage has either … community to progressively increase access to modern infrastructure services in Africa. "--World Bank web site …