Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction - What is the Connection?

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Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria (2010, unknown): “Third, there is a view that in developing countries characterized by weak governance and institutions, the tendency for government officials to be corrupt is very high, and in this scenario decisions to invest in infrastructure may be distorted, thereby lowering the contribution of infrastructure to”
Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South (2006, background): “Writing of rural Asia, Ali and Pernia state that ‘‘typically, the incidence of rural poverty is inversely related to the size of landholdings, decreasing from landless to sub-marginal, marginal to small, then to large farmers’’ (Ali & Penia, 2003, p. 3).”
Development effects of electrification : evidence from the geologic placement of hydropower plants in Brazil (2013, unknown): “There is now renewed support for large infrastructure projects as a means of poverty reduction (World Bank, 2003; Ali and Pernia, 2003).”