We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …

We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An … period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new indices on infrastructure and provide country rankings, which we also … compare with subjective assessments of infrastructure in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. Finally, we …

The effects of foreign aid on the endowment of recipient countries with infrastructure have received surprisingly …-in-difference-in-differences estimations, with the treatment defined as steep increases in aid for infrastructure since a distinct change in donor behavior in … 2005. Mitigating endogeneity concerns in this way, we consistently find aid for infrastructure to be ineffective in …

Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has … resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both hard and soft infrastructure on trade … improvements in transport infrastructure (i.e., the road density network, air transport, railways, ports, and logistics) have …

Making use of considerably improved measures of infrastructure, we assess the impact of infrastructure on bilateral …-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance on trade in … of the gravity model. Importantly, we still observe significant and non-linear effects of infrastructure on bilateral …

We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …

Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service …

Core infrastructure, which covers transportation, information and communication (ICT), energy, water and sanitation … systems, plays a significant role in economic growth. The development of core infrastructure - one of the European Union (EU … addressing the identified issues is needed to assess the impact of infrastructure on economic growth and convergence …

Without realizing the importance of soft infrastructure, hard infrastructure cannot ensure a significant impact on …. This paper highlights where Central Asia and Caucasia regions stand in terms of physical and soft infrastructure. A gradual … improvement in physical infrastructure is observed, however, the infrastructure development pattern is uneven. Tajikistan and the …