Infrastructure development is critical to delivering growth, reducing poverty, and addressing broader development goals …. This paper surveys the literature on the linkages between infrastructure investment and economic growth, discusses the role … of infrastructure in participation in global value chains and supporting economic upgrades, highlights the challenges …

Governance is central to development outcomes in infrastructure, not least because corruption (a symptom of failed … governance) can have significantly negative impact on returns to infrastructure investment. This conclusion holds whether … infrastructure is in private or public hands. This paper looks at what has been learned about the role of governance in …

Projects and reforms targeting infrastructure services can affect consumer welfare through changes in the price … in the quality of infrastructure services within the broader theoretical perspective of welfare measurement. The study … applications of a new approach to analyzing the effects of interruptions in the supply of infrastructure services on household …

Trade preferences are expected to facilitate global market integration and offer the potential for rapid economic … returns to nonbeneficiary countries in recent years. Rather, it shows that public infrastructure, such as paved roads, has an …

The authors examine the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade … bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. The authors depart from the institutions and infrastructure literature in this … preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. They are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where …

performance of regulation, an issue that has recently occupied much of the policy debate on the effectiveness of infrastructure … some well documented results on the positive role of regulatory governance in infrastructure industries, the authors …

Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … infrastructure overprovision, simultaneity between infrastructure provision and growth, and the possibility of multiple (hence … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities …

quantify the burden on governments of infrastructure policy and implementation decisions. This simple-to-apply model provides … insight into three key components of hidden costs that affect infrastructure - poor bill collection rates, excessive losses … has potential for strengthening infrastructure policy dialogue and influencing decisionmakers who allocate scarce …

The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensive benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance in four …-based indicators of infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. Specifically, the paper seeks to answer a number of relevant … questions: How does South Africa compare on major indicators of infrastructure sector performance against the relevant country …