This paper reviews the book “Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa” by Antonio Estache and Quentin Wodon …. The authors summarize the political debate on infrastructure policy in Africa in a very compelling and knowledgeable way … welfare enhancing benefits of infrastructure investments is less conclusive than suggested in the book. The book also misses …

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 …

This paper provides background information for development practitioners in the water and other infrastructure sectors …. It outlines the major challenges related to financing the gap in global water infrastructure, including those systems … that provide urban and rural water supply, and sanitation and irrigation services. Water infrastructure finance includes …