Public infrastructure investments are seen as one of the key engines of economic growth in China. Yet, there is little … quantitative evidence on the growth and distributive effects of public infrastructure investments (PII) in China. This paper … more in rural infrastructure to reduce inequality between rural and urban households in the future …

Transportation infrastructure is a way for governments to achieve development goals by connecting peripheral areas to … space. Yet understanding the gains from transportation infrastructure is difficult because the placement and timing of …

Chancellor Philip Hammond has been urged to increase government infrastructure spending to counteract any economic …’ function of infrastructure spending ignores the opportunity cost of such activity. Even if it worked theoretically, timing … a ‘demand-deficient’ high unemployment scenario in the UK now which requires new economic stimulus. Good infrastructure …

unemployment, GDP per capita, housing prices, the paper also examines the importance of location and infrastructure. The variable …

This study provides an adequate account of the effect of infrastructure on poverty reduction in Nigeria over the period … cointegration and Granger causality test based on vector error correction mechanism. Using economic infrastructure spending (capital … expenditure on economic services) and social infrastructure expenditure (like health and education) as infrastructure investment …

The MENASA region is experiencing a secular wave of transformation with two epicenters, India and the GCC. In the …. Singh (India's current PM) are expected to solidify and extend this transformation process. In the GCC, the main driver is … powerful process of urbanization. These secular waves require a massive commitment to build indispensable infrastructure to …

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, policies, and political economy of infrastructure … investment, and a review of empirical literature of the relationship between growth and infrastructure. Empirical estimations … using the growth accounting framework for a panel of 123 economies confirm that while infrastructure contributes to growth …