accompanying freely downloadable Excel-based tool. It also constructs a new Infrastructure Efficiency Index (IEI), by combining … means that improving the efficiency of public investment has a sizable effect on growth in low-income countries …

between infrastructure and productivity growth remains controversial. In this regard, it is somewhat surprising that … dramatic productivity boost from increased infrastructure outlays. In a specification designed to provide an upper bound for …Researchers, commentators, and politicians have devoted steadily more attention to infrastructure in response to claims …

infrastructure, growth, and productivity in developing Asian countries. The main conclusion is that a number of countries in … developing Asia have significantly improved their basic infrastructure endowments in the recent past. This improvement appears to … factor accumulation, a direct effect, and that the impact on productivity is rather inconclusive …

Empirical explorations of the growth and aggregate productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by … manufacturing over the 1970–2000 period, and a range of 19 infrastructure measures, explores the question of infrastructure … the possibility of endogeneity in the infrastructure measures renders the impact of infrastructure capital not only …