Transport infrastructure is deemed to be central to development and consumes a large fraction of the development … because of the nonrandom placement of road infrastructure. This endogeneity is addressed using a seemingly novel instrumental …

Infrastructure is an important driving force for economic growth. It reduces trade and transaction costs and stimulates …, infrastructure is an important constraint in many African countries. Using firm-level data for East Africa, the paper reexamines the … relationship between firm performance and infrastructure. It is shown that labor costs are by far the most important to stimulate …

for peace and reconstruction. Hence, the rehabilitation of damaged transport infrastructure has emerged as an overarching … conflict on welfare and on the economic impact of transport infrastructure. The theoretical model explores how transport … infrastructure affects conflict incidence and welfare when selection into rebel groups is endogenous. The implications of the model …

Academics and policy makers have long considered an adequate supply of infrastructure services to be essential for … economic development. This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of infrastructure … the drivers of income growth, the degree to which infrastructure represents a public or a private good, and the extent of …

-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … Asia region's rates of access to infrastructure (sanitation, electricity, telecom, and transport) are closer to those of … of access across time, that is, across generations. It finds that while the regressivity of infrastructure services is …

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 …