Millions of parents across Europe use mobile baby-tracking applications. These digital aides generate intimate data sets by accessing sensitive information about (un)born babies, pregnancies, and family caregiving routines. Crucially, the tracking infrastructures embedded in these apps enable...

This note examines whether public infrastructure investment crowds in private investment in the Western Balkans and how this relationship compares with the EU. Using Eurostat data for 2000-2024 and a sector-level analysis, it finds that higher public infrastructure investment is generally...

We study how federal information-collection requirements affect public infrastructure spending of local governments. Exploiting the introduction and revision of the federal survey on highway infrastructure, we find that county roads that are randomly sampled by the survey attract more local...

Road infrastructure underpins Nigeria's economic competitiveness, yet Public-Private Partnership (PPP) performance is constrained not by inadequate legislation but by persistent weaknesses in enforcement and governance. Transparency deficits across procurement, design management, certification,...

Using high-frequency data, the paper analyzes the link between public infrastructure investment and private corporate investment in India for the decade ending 2023-24. We adopt the ARDL model to investigate the existence of cointegration and find strong evidence of the crowding-in of private...

Decarbonizing Brazil's road freight transport sector is essential to achieving the country's 2050 emission targets. To scale this effort, Brazil must transition from diesel-powered trucks to low- and zero-carbon alternatives powered by electricity or hydrogen, each requiring substantial...

Studies of the development of clean hydrogen have often focused on the production side. Infrastructure built and used for storage and transportation warrants more attention. Among the topics that should be assessed are system design, operation, integration, and ownership; market design and...

A diversificação dos mecanismos de garantia no Brasil é essencial para atrair investimentos privados em infraestrutura. Garantias sólidas aumentam a segurança jurídica e reduzem o risco percebido por atores privados, facilitando a entrada de novos investidores e financiadores...

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has emerged as a foundational enabler of modern digital governance, yet scholarly understanding of its scope, design, and impact remains fragmented. This study addresses this gap by conducting a comprehensive systematic review and bibliometric analysis of 1153...

How do we evaluate the welfare gains from transportation infrastructure investment? We present a quantitative spatial framework that integrates both traffic and economic responses to infrastructure investment and derive the elasticity of aggregate welfare to improvements in the transportation...

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was originally devised to link East Asia and Europe through a network of physical and digital infrastructure. This article analyses the BRI's development in the European context by offering a comparative analysis of 727 BRI and BRI-like...

Rogowski et al. (2022) use secondary data to study the impact of historic postal infrastructure on economic development, both cross-country and within the US. Their results suggest a large positive effect of post offices on economic development that is robust across various sensitivity checks....

The study provides a technical analysis as support for further standardization activities on the gas quality in Europe's future hydrogen infrastructure. It synthesizes key literature on the influence of different supply chain elements on hydrogen gas composition and assesses the implications of...

Greening digital infrastructure means both reducing its carbon footprint (climate mitigation) and enhancing its resilience to climate risks (climate adaptation). While earlier sections focused on resilience, this chapter addresses improving energy efficiency in data centers, networks, and...

Nepal experienced its worst unrest in decades on September 8 and 9, 2025. A social media ban triggered protest against corruption, and this was followed by widespread unrest causing significant human and economic losses. The damage to public and private infrastructure is still being assessed. On...

This report advocates for a place-based infrastructure strategy to unlock the Amazon's sustainable bioeconomy, balancing economic inclusion with environmental protection. It highlights the region's infrastructure gaps, especially in transport, energy, and digital connectivity, which collectively...

This paper estimates growth-maximizing levels of public capital and investment across countries using a structural framework that accounts for three critical features: public investment efficiency, human capital levels, and congestion effects. A harmonized panel data set covering 166 countries...

The Digital Data Infrastructure Roadmap (DDIR) for 2025–2029 aims to provide strategic recommendations to enhance Thailand’s digital transformation through improved data infrastructure and systems, incorporating international best practices for data governance. The topics for each chapter on...

Infrastructure development is a major factor of interstate inequality in India's economic development; however, much less is known about the causes of unequal infrastructure development. Using 11 parameters, this study develops three separate indices: physical, social, and financial...

Architectural investments in sports infrastructure serve marketing purposes, particularly place branding and city image creation. The article examines the modernisation of the Roucas Blanc facilities, Marseille, for 2024 Summer Olympics nautical events. It discusses tourism and image-related...

The Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) is a capital investment grant administered by the Department of Health (DOH), designed to help local government units (LGUs) augment their health infrastructure, such as primary healthcare facilities, hospitals, and equipment. Over the past...

Global Value Chain (GVCs) offer vast opportunities for industrialization, economic diversification, and structural economic transformation. However, despite various efforts to become notable actors in the GVC, many African countries remain positioned at the lower end of the GVC spectrum. Hence,...

This paper examines the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI) on residents' well-being using the difference-in-differences method based on Gallup World Poll(GWP) data from 2009 to 2018. The implementation of the BRI significantly enhances residents' well-being in participating countries,...