manufacturing but not in services. The key factors explaining Africa’s disadvantage at the firm level are lack of infrastructure …Africa’s economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, firm-level data for around 80 … productivity levels and growth. Africa’s conditional advantage is higher in low-tech than in high-tech manufacturing, and exists in …

. Distances to physical infrastructure are often not representative of farmers’ access to markets; changes in specific market …

We examine the relationship between infrastructure provision and poverty alleviation by analyzing 500 interviews … modeling, we find that infrastructure was associated with a 66% increase in education among females. Service provision …-sensitive consideration of infrastructure is necessary and that a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach will not suffice. We provide evidence that …

the endogeneity and the function misspecification issues in estimating the returns to infrastructure and private capital … Chinese provinces were under-invested in infrastructure, whereas in 2008 most of the western provinces were over-invested in … infrastructure. Such findings suggest that the nationwide large-scale infrastructure investment enacted by the Chinese government …

infrastructure sectors. This paper explores how city characteristics, spatial pressures, and other institutional forces condition the … extent of liberalization reforms in local infrastructure markets. The findings advance the policy diffusion literature by …

This paper examines why private participation in infrastructure (PPI) in water continues to be promoted despite poor … results in developing countries. It argues that the main characteristics of infrastructure discourage private investment and …