expenditure in public services and infrastructure on different sectors of the population. Through three essays this dissertation … infrastructure. This dissertation attempts to contribute to the literature by providing a sound framework... …

Ten years after the World Bank institutionalized the use of Communications for Development, the Water and Sanitation … Program for Latin America and the Caribbean and the World Bank office in Peru held the 'constructive dialogue: communications … for development of water, sanitation, and infrastructure projects in Latin America' workshop on November 23-25, 2009. This …

public-private partnerships (PPP) to finance, develop, manage and operate water infrastructure facilities. However, as in the … case of other public infrastructure projects, not all PPPs in the water sector have been successful. Using cases of both … infrastructure projects with private sector participation and whether PPPs have a future in water infrastructure development in …

We examine the evolution of infrastructure, and the impact of infrastructure investment, in middleincome countries … (MICs). We document how different types of infrastructure stocks, as well as infrastructure investment, vary with the level … provision of infrastructure varies across development stages; there is a focus on basic infrastructure, such as transport, water …

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 …

Reviews the working of the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund of the Government of India …