Infrastructure services, from both hard and soft infrastructure, play a vital role in facilitating Asia's export …-led growth by keeping the prices of delivered goods in export markets competitive. Efficient infrastructure services lower … response to, and with implications for, further infrastructure development. Logistics services play a key role and the …

This paper uses some simple conceptual models to draw out various implications of infrastructure investments with long … infrastructure investment decisions tend to be made on the basis of (current and expected future) emissions prices that do not fully … for infrastructure investors. These issues are illustrated for two alternative cases of climate damages, namely with the …

This paper examines a puzzle in the political economy of infrastructure in India - the co-existence of relatively low … shares of capital spending in public budgets alongside evidence of large demand for village infrastructure from poor voters …. It argues that this pattern is due to infrastructure projects being used at the margin for political rent-seeking, while …

alleviation, and shared prosperity, it is essential to make closing its huge infrastructure gap a priority. Identifying and …, practical, and effective infrastructure development choices. This study addresses this knowledge gap by focusing on the current … status of infrastructure sectors and geographical disparities, real levels of investment and private sector participation …

-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … Asia region's rates of access to infrastructure (sanitation, electricity, telecom, and transport) are closer to those of … of access across time, that is, across generations. It finds that while the regressivity of infrastructure services is …