To meet its infrastructure needs, the Middle East needs to invest, on average, around 6% of its GDP annually, although … infrastructure-related jobs. Because of significant differences in financing opportunities, fiscal constraints could be binding for … the poorest countries. The effectiveness of job creation from infrastructure will depend on the quality of targeting and …

Interventions to fix market failures in infrastructure have often resulted in some form of governance failure and this … contributes importantly to explain shortcomings in the supply of infrastructure services in developing countries and increasingly …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative assessment of the degree of concentration in infrastructure …

infrastructure investment. Overall,we show that such weaknesses can be key in determining financing choices, but that theydo not all …