This paper explores the benefits and the costs of strengthening infrastructure assets to make them more resilient …, reducing the repair costs and infrastructure disruptions caused by natural hazards. Strengthening infrastructure assets in low … billion dollar and 65 billion dollar a year, id est 3 percent of baseline infrastructure investment needs. The uncertainty …

variations from these projections which means that planning for resilient wastewater infrastructure requires more detailed …

This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … disruptions in 137 low- and middle-income countries, representing 78 percent of the world population and 80 percent of the GDP of … substantial drag that unreliable infrastructure imposes on firms in developing countries. Yet, these figures are likely to be …

How much an economy should invest in its physical infrastructure is a crucial question being asked by policy makers … question by bringing insights from the literature that investigates the relationship between infrastructure investment … investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic growth mostly conclude that there exists a positive …

This review examines the literature on the welfare impacts of infrastructure disruptions. There is widespread evidence … that households suffer from the consequences of a lack of infrastructure reliability, and that being connected to the grid … is not sufficient to close the infrastructure gap. Disruptions and irregular service have adverse effects on household …

Inadequate infrastructure impedes the productivity of manufacturing firms, with negative consequences for the wider … economy. This study examines how water infrastructure copes with severe weather fluctuations and analyzes the effect of …. This is achieved using firm-level data from World Bank Enterprise Surveys covering more than 16,000 manufacturing firms in …