South Asia needs large infrastructure investments to achieve its development goals, and public investment can also … public infrastructure was a key driver of productivity growth in South Asia. Going forward, higher public infrastructure … reap the most benefits from higher infrastructure investment, South Asian countries need to manage fiscal risks carefully …

This paper examines trends in infrastructure investment and its financing in low-income developing countries (LIDCs …). Following an acceleration of public investment over the last 15 years, the stock of infrastructure assets increased in LIDCs …, even though large gaps remain compared to emerging markets. Infrastructure in LIDCs is largely provided by the public …

Driving infrastructure development, notably mobilizing financial resources for infrastructure projects, has been … infrastructure booms, and a case study of four emerging economies about their practice of funding infrastructure development. The … study shows that (i) there is no empirical evidence that rapid infrastructure growth would undermine contemporary …

recent fiscal adjustment in Mexico is that it has been carried out, in part, by depleting public infrastructure stocks ….We estimate the effects of public infrastructure on private sector costs in Mexico and calculate the implied optimal …One objective of government investment is to develop public infrastructure which may reduce private sector costs. In a …

This paper investigates the deindustrialization and welfare effects of infrastructure aid in developing countries. In … the short run, cost-saving infrastructure aid in the export sector increases the domestic wage rate, whereas the same aid … infrastructure aid. Infrastructure aid in the nontraded sector has no effect on domestic factor prices. Laborsaving infrastructure …

. Within the region, India has become a global economic powerhouse with enormous development potential ahead. To foster human … and economic development, India has shown a strong commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Agenda. This … paper focuses on the medium-term development challenges that South Asia, and in particular India, faces to ensure …