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

Water resources are essential to human development processes and to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals that seek, inter alia, to eradicate extreme poverty and …

Although the effects of transport infrastructure on regional development have been widely
discussed, the relationship between transport infrastructure and urban–rural income …

OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced geographic database, provides the only global-level,
openly licensed source of geospatial road data, and the only national-level source in many …

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 …

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 …

Latin America and the Caribbean has been one of the regions of the world with the greatest
inequality. This book explores why the region suffers from such persistent inequality …

Abstract The Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) sector has now more than
ever become a critical driver of sustained inclusive growth in Africa, especially given the post …

This paper empirically estimates the effects of infrastructure investments on the level and
distribution of impoverished households' income, utilizing the arguably exogenous …

An adequate supply of infrastructure services has long been viewed by both academics and
policy makers as a key ingredient for economic development. Over the past quarter-century …