Infrastructure and productivity in Brazil. This article analyses the relationship between infrastructure and total … factor productivity (TFP) in Brazil during the second half of the twenty century. Public capital is used as a proxy for … infrastructure capital. The hypothesis to be tested is that an increase in infrastructure - more than than a rise in the private …

between productivity and private sector investment in plant and equipment, the author explores whether there is also a … connection between economic growth and public spending. She argues that public investment in infrastructure stimulates private … production, Erenburg supplies the missing link that explicitly ties public infrastructure to economic growth. …