causal effect of infrastructure on the sustainability of natural resources. We examine the effect of the arrival of two new …There is a large literature on the role infrastructure plays in economic development, but few papers document the … national highways on ground water levels in a small agricultural county in the North China Plain - a region that produces most …

in appropriately priced municipal water infrastructure and services is necessary. This paper estimates the impact of … improvements to water network infrastructure on the take-up of municipal water services in the Kyrgyz Republic. We also assess the … intention-to-treat impacts of these infrastructure improvements on households’ willingness to pay for improved water services …

effects of water supply infrastructure, including spillover effects or externalities, the impacts are significant. One of the … spillover effects of the development of water supply infrastructure could be the development of the region by inviting new … effects of water supply infrastructure developments. Our model shows how the incremental tax revenues that were previously …

consumption in the Omsk region. The authors analyze the situation with the water consumption in China, Kazakhstan and the Russian …

This paper reviews the book “Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa” by Antonio Estache and Quentin Wodon …. The authors summarize the political debate on infrastructure policy in Africa in a very compelling and knowledgeable way … welfare enhancing benefits of infrastructure investments is less conclusive than suggested in the book. The book also misses …

This paper examines the impact of FDI investment on air pollution in China using 286 cities from 2001 through 2007 … deterioration in particular on air quality. Our findings do not support pollution haven hypothesis for China. The findings show that … FDI has no negative impact on the air quality in China. Contrary to expectations, the presence of FDI investment reduces …

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 …