Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-pass
attempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of production …

Academics and policy makers have long considered an adequate supply of infrastructure
services to be essential for economic development. This paper reviews recent theoretical …

Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including
what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural …

The aim of this research is to examine the degree of the influence of infrastructure on
national competitiveness. Through an effectiveness of infrastructure management can …

This paper provides an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on
economic growth and income distribution using a large panel data set encompassing over …

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed
to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods …

This paper develops a structural model of infrastructure and output growth that takes account
of institutional and economic factors that mediate in the infrastructure–GDP interactions …

In this paper, we examine the growth effects of government expenditure for a panel of 30
developing countries over the 1970s and 1980s, with a particular focus on disaggregated …

An adequate supply of infrastructure services has long been viewed by both academics and
policy-makers as a key ingredient for economic development. Sub-Saharan Africa ranks …

We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation,
corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face …