This book reviews Latin America's experience with infrastructure reform over the last fifteen
years. It argues that the region's infrastructure has suffered from public retrenchment and …

The Africa Infrastructure Country DiagnosWc covers power, transport, irrigaWon, water and
sanitaWon, and informaWon and communicaWon technology (ICT)—and to provide an …

I develop a model of agriculture on heterogeneous land to study the relation between trade,
productivity, and welfare in Peru, where farmers face high internal and external trade costs. I …

Billions of people around the world live in spatial poverty traps–geographic pockets of
poverty, disadvantage and marginalisation. Spatial poverty traps are found in detached …

This paper critically examines the dimensions of market access. Using farm panel survey
data from Kenya, we investigate changes in ten indicators of market access during the 1997 …

Rigorous impact evaluation that includes appropriately selected control groups must be a
part of rural electrification program designs. Budgeting evaluation activities and engaging …

Traditionally, development policy and related research have adopted a simplified concept of
rural and urban areas, with the words rural referring to more “remote farming areas” and …

The relationship between infrastructure, growth and poverty is empirically robust in the
macro-economic and microeconomic literature as well as in the rapidly evolving randomised …

Linkage to dynamic markets is a key factor in understanding why different rural territories in
Latin America perform differently. This paper combines two conceptual frameworks (from the …

Durante los últimos años, el crecimiento económico y el desarrollo de programas sociales
han contribuido significativamente a la reducción de la pobreza en el Perú. En este proceso …