Core infrastructure, which covers transportation, information and communication (ICT), energy, water and sanitation systems, plays a significant role in economic growth. The development of core infrastructure - one of the European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy (CP) priorities - is heavily funded....

Nearly ten years since the official launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an understanding of what the initiative's objectives are consolidated. However, the short-, mid-, and long-term implications of the initiative are less clear. This is reflected in academic research, as well as in...

This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure spending bill in a neoclassical growth model. We add to the literature by considering a more detailed tax structure, different types of infrastructure spending and linkages between...

The time for action to build a better future and green recovery has never been stronger as we navigate the uncertainty of a world attempting to manage its way out of a triple crisis: debt sustainability, climate change, and pandemic. The fiscal constraints of governments across the globe open...

Effective planning and regulatory processes ensure orderly energy systems. Often, decisions are not made within mandated time frames or discrete consent processes are infrequent. Where multiple consent processes exist in sequence, a given delay may be compounded. These factors can negatively...

I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented (i.e., projects started but not yet completed) in the context of sewerage in Peru. Using a counterfactual implementation predicted from geography-based cost considerations as an...

Zur Umsetzung einer Verkehrsverlagerung vom autozentrierten Individualverkehr auf den (elektrifizierten) Schienenverkehr bedarf es unter anderem einer neuen Schwerpunktsetzung in der Infrastrukturplanung. Die Erarbeitung von Projektvorschlägen für den Bundesverkehrswegeplan 2030 auf der Ebene...

What factors do private investors consider relevant in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)? Are these features of country attractiveness sector specific? In line with increasing demands for infrastructure investments for economic growth and development in recent years, coupled with a huge, yet...

Myanmar has experienced a series of total and partial internet shutdowns since the military coup in February 2021. These restrictions have varied in intensity across the country and over time, ranging from the complete shutdown of all wireless broadband services and nightly shutdowns of fixed...

Transport and logistics services in Myanmar have been substantially hit by the impacts of the February 2021 coup and the surge in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Logistics companies have been affected by rising fuel prices, border closures, and a shortage of shipping containers. While...

The time for action to build a better future and green recovery has never been stronger as we navigate the uncertainty of a world attempting to manage its way out of a triple crisis: debt sustainability, climate change, and pandemic. The fiscal constraints of governments across the globe open...

Evidence of public expenditure on infrastructure is extremely sparse. Little is known about the trends and patterns of infrastructure expenditure, and there is no real basis for assessing the adequacy and efficiency of infrastructure spending. Drawing on the World Bank's novel BOOST database,...

To address the inter-connected climate and biodiversity crises, it is crucial to understand whether, and if so how, nature-based solutions are perceived to contribute to carbon neutrality, biodiversity, human well-being and justice outcomes. We propose and explore the concept of carbon-smart...

This paper examines the long-term impacts of infrastructural investment. It considers the case of British investment in railway infrastructure in colonial India. Railways had an immediate impact on trade and development in the predominantly agricultural India. In this paper, we show that the...

Emission-free hydrogen (H2) is crucial to decarbonize energy supply and to tackle the climate crisis. To unlock the potential of H2, pipelines infrastructures and related investments are required to enable trade. However, it is uncertain what future H2 infrastructure will be needed. The paper...

This study provides an adequate account of the effect of infrastructure on poverty reduction in Nigeria over the period 1996-2019. The basis of evidence is anchored on the adoption of Autoregressive Distributed Lag bounds testing approach to cointegration and Granger causality test based on...

Urban areas concentrate more than 50% of the world’s population and are highly impacted by human activities, mainly due to high population density directly affecting the micro-climate. In this sense, Green Infrastructures (GIs) are used to mitigate these effects. This study evaluated the...

The newly passed German telecommunication regulation has set the deployment and sharing conditions of in-building infrastructure with the purpose of addressing the need of generating proper incentives to network operators to invest in and extend their very high capacity access networks. At the...

Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...

The following implications can be derived for government and private initiatives to promote participation in overseas climate infrastructure projects. First, it is necessary to establish a comprehensive support system for the whole project including the planning, construction, operation and...

WIK-Consult hat für das Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr (BMDV) untersucht, welche Rahmenbedingungen den Ausbau von mobilen und leitungsgebunden Breitbandnetzen beschleunigen können. Zu diesem Zweck haben wir zehn Fallbeispiele näher analysiert und Expertengespräche mit...

What is the impact on intranational trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? This paper investigates this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during...

Access to infrastructure support economic development through both capital accumulation and structural transformation. This paper investigates the links between investments in electricity, Internet, and road infrastructure, in isolation and bundled, and economic development in the Horn of...

Um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben, muss Deutschland sich zu einer vernetzten und digi-talisierten Gesellschaft entwickeln. Dazu bedarf es einer gemeinsamen Kraftanstrengung aller beteiligten Akteure. Dies gilt insbesondere für den dringend erforderlichen Ausbau möglichst flächendeckender...

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...