be a promoter for growth. This paper benchmarks Mexico's infrastructure quantity stocks and identifies Mexico … methodology, and finally, (3) calculating Mexico's infrastructure gap compared to region leaders. The main findings indicate that … Mexico's infrastructure stocks were the lowest compared to similar countries in 1990. In 2010, Mexico improved its …

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic … development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, while proper identification of the causal … effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT …

construction? How can we evaluate the performance of infrastructure development? How and to what extent should the government be …The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth via various channels including reducing transaction costs and raising …

Calderon and Serven provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on economic growth and … of a larger effort in the region to assess the effects of infrastructure development … include, among the regressors, infrastructure quantity and quality indicators, in addition to standard controls. To account …

provision of infrastructure varies across development stages; there is a focus on basic infrastructure, such as transport, water …We examine the evolution of infrastructure, and the impact of infrastructure investment, in middleincome countries … (MICs). We document how different types of infrastructure stocks, as well as infrastructure investment, vary with the level …

What determines the aggregate and distributional effects of new transportation infrastructure? One key overlooked … channel is the role that infrastructure policy plays in changing the incentives of firms to enter, exit, and grow--in turn … infrastructure. Firms play a critical role in driving these results: highways increase firms' size, entry rates, survival rates, and …

This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure investment activity, capital market development, the role … of public institutions and economic development in the Asia Pacific. It adopts a review approach drawing on empirical … evidence over recent decades. Infrastructure is shown to be an important asset class playing a central role in a nation …