Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic … effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT …)-based evaluation, is difficult in the context of large-scale infrastructure. Second, while micro studies so far have focused on the …

The present paper deals with the public and private sector partnership in infrastructure in India. The Indian …, meaning of public private partnership, infrastructure position in India, core sectors in infrastructure, constraints of … references. India has, since the early 1990s, been looking to the private sector to fill investment gaps in infrastructure but …

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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 …