Infrastructure services in developing countries : access, quality, costs and policy reform

By Cecilia M. Briceño-Garmendia, Antonio Estache, N. Shafik. 2004

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The authors review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing the investment needs and the emerging policy issues. While their assessment is seriously constrained by data gaps, they provide useful insights on the main challenges ahead, emphasizing that, in addition to the widely discussed access problems, the poorest also face major affordability and service quality issues which were not well addressed by the reforms of the 1990s. The authors make a case for a stronger commitment of the international community to generate the information needed to assess and monitor infrastructure needs and policies.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia (2014, background): “Column (3) examines the impact on the final amount actually paid by the government, including any overruns or contract”
Infrastructure and Development: A Critical Appraisal of the Macro-level Literature (2008, background): “Canning and Pedroni (2004) consider this question in the context of a panel of countries, while Aschauer (2000) looks at a panel of US states.”
Current Debates on Infrastructure Policy (2007, unknown): “6 Briceño et al. (2004) carry out a similar review of about 102 papers and reach similar conclusions.”