Emerging infrastructure policy issues in developing countries - a survey of the recent economic literature
By Antonio Estache. 2004
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The author reviews the recent economic research on emerging issues for infrastructure policies affecting poor people in developing countries. His main purpose is to identify some of the challenges the international community, and donors in particular, are likely to have to address over the next few years. He addresses six main issues: (1) the necessity of infrastructure in achieving the Millennium Development Goals; (2) the various dimensions of financing challenges for infrastructure; (3) the debate on the relative importance of urban and rural infrastructure needs; (4) the debate on the effectiveness of infrastructure decentralization; (5) what works and what does not when trying to target the needs of the poor, with an emphasis on affordability and regulation challenges; and (6) the importance of governance and corruption in the sector. The author concludes by showing how the challenges identified define a relatively well integrated agenda for both researchers and the international infrastructure community.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Media Technology, Strategy and Management
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- Electricity Provision and Industrial Development: Evidence from India (2012, unknown): “(2007), Dams, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122 (2), 601646 [19] Estache, A.”
- Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Developments and Key Challenges (2006, background): “Estache and Rossi (2004) found that the type of regime under which they operate had a significant impact on the labor productivity of private electricity distributors in Latin America from 1994 to 2001.”
- Infrastructure development and economic growth in India (2009, background): “…1354-7860 print / 1469-9648 online C© 2009 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/13547860903169340 http://www.informaworld.com Further, investment in physical and social infrastructure positively affects the poor directly and indirectly in multiple ways (Estache 2004, 2006, Jones 2004).”
- Economic growth in South Asia: Role of infrastructure (2012, background): “investment on physical and social infrastructure positively affects the poor directly and indirectly in multiple ways (Estache 2004; 2006 and Jones 2004).”