across world regions and by investigating the contribution of transport and communication infrastructure in promoting … geographic terms and by membership in the same regional trade association. The analysis finds significant evidence for … analysis further finds strong interaction between infrastructure and being a landlocked country. This suggests that growth …

Academics and policy makers have long considered an adequate supply of infrastructure services to be essential for … economic development. This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of infrastructure … the drivers of income growth, the degree to which infrastructure represents a public or a private good, and the extent of …

trade-driven growth through increased intraregional infrastructure connectivity and regional economic integration. In 1992 …, a pan-Asian transport connectivity was initiated through, Asian Highway Network and Trans-Asian Railways Network. In … finance greater physical connectivity, at the pan-Asian, sub-regional and national levels, Asia will require a strong and …

"The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … comparator countries using a new World Bank international data base with objective and perception-based indicators of … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative …