infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are … by a penalty-based system. We present a model that illustrates the complementarity between infrastructure and …

received. Provinces that could modernize more their infrastructure experienced higher increases in agricultural production …

India, seeking to reduce electricity shortages, set up a new power market, in which transmission constraints sharply …

This paper shows that those low and middle income countries that use infrastructure inefficiently pay a growth penalty … in the form of a much smaller benefit from infrastructure investments. The magnitude of this penalty is apparent when the … these two regions can be attributed to the difference in effective use of infrastructure resources. At the same time, the …

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … compare changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows … in making progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The …

We use data from Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India's Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on … financial infrastructure shapes how infrastructure investments impact localities …