alleviation, and shared prosperity, it is essential to make closing its huge infrastructure gap a priority. Identifying and …, practical, and effective infrastructure development choices. This study addresses this knowledge gap by focusing on the current … status of infrastructure sectors and geographical disparities, real levels of investment and private sector participation …

This study argues that public infrastructure is an important though previously neglected driving mechanism of the … neoclassical growth model with heterogeneous firms, where public infrastructure contributes to firms' production and mitigates the … infrastructure in recent decades, yet remains in deep need of further infrastructure improvements. The accumulation of infrastructure …

, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, Turkey and Venezuela. For these countries we are able to match data from …

case studies of infrastructure financing facilities in various stages of development in Colombia, India, and Pakistan. They …To encourage the private funding and provision of infrastructure services, governments have used specialized financing … also present case studies of government-sponsored financing facilities (not of infrastructure) in Argentina, and Moldova …

Evidence of public expenditure on infrastructure is extremely sparse. Little is known about the trends and patterns of … infrastructure expenditure, and there is no real basis for assessing the adequacy and efficiency of infrastructure spending. Drawing … on the World Bank's novel BOOST database, this paper provides a first relatively disaggregated picture of infrastructure …

The authors review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing the investment … monitor infrastructure needs and policies. …

Using panel data models, the author examines the threshold effects of the productivity of infrastructure investment in … particular, the productivity of infrastructure investment generally exhibits some network effects. When the available stock of … infrastructure is very low, investment in this sector has the same productivity as noninfrastructure investment. On the contrary …

This paper presents a survey of recent research on the economics of infrastructure in developing countries. Energy … between infrastructure and economic growth (at the economy-wide, regional and sectoral level) and the composition, sequencing … and efficiency of alternative infrastructure investments, including the arbitrage between new investments and maintenance …

The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …

surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar …