Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since … the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present … paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure for trade by means of meta-analysis and meta-regression techniques …

Infrastructure development is a priority on policy agendas in the EU and worldwide, because of the very high investment … needs in basic infrastructure, especially in lagging behind regions and countries. The paper provides a descriptive analysis … infrastructure sectors: transport, telecommunication, environment and energy. The analysis suggests that, on average, internal …

infrastructures. One product of this trend is the ‘inverse infrastructure,’ which refers to a modularized, semi-autonomous and user …-driven infrastructure that is a result of the self-organization of local actors. In this study, we discuss the nature of such … infrastructures and the challenges they pose to local infrastructure policy with special reference to the case of water cooperatives …

In the last 15 years, Australian governments' infrastructure policy has shifted systematically from directly providing … virtually all infrastructure to creating competitive markets where competing public and private suppliers can provide … infrastructure efficiently. Wide ranging competition and structural reforms, particularly under National Competition Policy, have …

Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal … the quality of transport infrastructure, viz. the opening of the Great Belt bridge connecting the Copenhagen area with a … neighboring island and the mainland of Denmark. We analyse the effect of the opening of the bridge on the productivity of firms …

In addition to the direct productivity effect, public capital also has an indirect effect on private capital stock and …, we calculate the impact of public capital on regional total factor productivity (TFP) performance by introducing a system …

Infrastructure contributed 1.8 percentage points to Côte d'Ivoire's annual per capita GDP growth over the mid-2000s … before conflict began to erase the country's infrastructure and its growth contributions. Raising the country …'s infrastructure endowment to the level of the region's middle-income countries could boost the growth rate by a further 2 percentage …