Infrastructure And Growth In Developing Countries : Recent Advances And Research Challenges

Straub, Stéphane

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“…In a similar study, Straub (2008) examined the impact of infrastructure investment on East Asia's economic growth using a growth-accounting framework and cross-country regression. Although the study used a similar set of economies as Seethepalli, Bramati, and Veredas (2008), the findings showed no significant impact of infrastructure on growth, contradicting the results of Seethepalli, Bramati, and Veredas (2008) when using a production function.…”

Section: Infrastructure and Growthmentioning

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The Impact of Infrastructure on Trade and Economic Growth in Selected Economies in Asia

Ismail

Mahyideen

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Asian Development Bank InstituteThe Working Paper series is a continuation of the formerly named Discussion Paper series; the numbering of the papers continued without interruption or change. ADBI's working papers reflect initial ideas on a topic and are posted online for discussion. ADBI encourages readers to post their comments on the main page for each working paper (given in the citation below). Some working papers may develop into other forms of publication. The views expressed in this paper are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of ADBI, ADB, its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADBI does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms.Working papers are subject to formal revision and correction before they are finalized and considered published.Asian Development Bank Institute Kasumigaseki Building 8F 3-2-5 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-6008, JapanTel.:+81-3-3593-5500 Fax:+81-3-3593-5571 URL:www.adbi.org E-mail: info@adbi.org © 2015 Asian Development Bank Institute ADBI Working Paper 553 Ismail and Mahyideen AbstractInfrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both hard and soft infrastructure on trade volume for exporters and importers in the region as well as on various economic growth indicators.Results demonstrate that improvements in transport infrastructure (i.e., the road density network, air transport, railways, ports, and logistics) have resulted in increased trade flows. Information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure has also enhanced trade, as the numbers of telephone lines, mobile phones, broadband access, internet users, and secure internet servers are found to have positive trade effects for both exporters and importers in Asia. Thus, although more attention has traditionally been given to hard infrastructure, the impact of soft infrastructure on trade flows must also be more thoroughly examined.

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Section: Infrastructure and Growthmentioning

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The Impact of Infrastructure on Trade and Economic Growth in Selected Economies in Asia

Ismail

Mahyideen

2015

SSRN Journal

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“…As Straub (2008) signals, macrolevel literature has too often sought to obtain the elasticity of infrastructure capital and compare it with the elasticity of private capital. Few papers go beyond measures of infrastructure spending and infrastructure stocks to consider the issue of infrastructure efficiency.…”

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Assessing The Impact Of Infrastructure Quality On Firm Productivity In Africa : Cross-Country Comparisons Based On Investment Climate Surveys From 1999 To 2005

Escribano¹,

Guasch²,

Peña³

2010

Policy Research Working Papers

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This paper provides a systematic, empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure quality on the total factor productivity (TFP) of African manufacturing firms. This measure is understood to include quality in the provision of customs clearance, energy, water, sanitation, transportation, telecommunications, and information and communications technology (ICT).We apply microeconometric techniques to investment climate surveys (ICSs) of 26 African countries carried out in different years during the period 2002-6, making country-specific evaluations of the impact of investment climate (IC) quality on aggregate TFP, average TFP, and allocative efficiency. For each country we evaluated this impact based on 10 different productivity measures. Results are robust once we control for observable fixed effects (red tape, corruption and crime, finance, innovation and labor skills, etc.) obtained from the ICSs. We ranked African countries according to several indices: per * This study is part of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world's knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. Financing for AICD is provided by a multi-donor trust fund to which the main contributors are the Department for International Development (United Kingdom), the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility, Agence Française de Développement, and the European Commission. Inquiries concerning the availability of datasets should be directed to vfoster@worldbank.org. The authors are indebted to Vivien Foster and her group of researchers at the World Bank for providing data sets and further insight into the African region.

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“…Roads can also create social conflicts over land and other natural resources, particularly when threatened resources are fundamental to livelihoods [18,19]. More positively, roads provide access to natural resources, facilitate market access for rural producers, allow integration among economic sectors, and reduce the costs of spatial mobility for people, capital and information [20][21][22].…”

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Roads as Drivers of Change: Trajectories across the Tri‑National Frontier in MAP, the Southwestern Amazon

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Regional studies of land cover change are often limited by available data and in terms of comparability across regions, by the transferability of methods. This research addresses the role of roads and infrastructure improvements across a tri-national frontier region with similar climatic and biophysical conditions but very different trajectories of forest clearing. The standardization of methodologies and the extensive spatial and temporal framework of the analysis are exciting as they allow us to monitor a dynamic region with global significance as it enters an era of increased road connectivity and massive potential forest loss. Our study region is the -MAP‖ frontier, which covers Madre de Dios in Peru, Acre in Brazil, and Pando in Bolivia. This tri-national frontier is being integrated into the global economy via the paving of the Inter-Oceanic Highway which links the region to ports in the Atlantic and Pacific, constituting a major infrastructure OPEN ACCESSRemote Sens. 2011, 3 1048 change within just the last decade. Notably, there are differences in the extent of road paving among the three sides of the tri-national frontier, with paving complete in Acre, underway in Madre de Dios, and incipient in Pando. Through a multi-temporal analysis of land cover in the MAP region from 1986 to 2005, we found that rates of deforestation differ across the MAP frontier, with higher rates in Acre, followed by Madre de Dios and the lowest rates in Pando, although the dominant land cover across the region is still stable forest cover (89% overall). For all dates in the study period, deforestation rates drop with distance from major roads although the distance before this drop off appears to relate to development, with Acre influencing forests up to around 45 km out, Madre de Dios to about 18 km out and less of a discernable effect or distance value in Pando. As development occurs, the converted forest areas saturate close to roads, resulting in increasing rates of deforestation at further distances and patch consolidation of clearings over time. We can use this trend as a basis for future change predictions, with Acre providing a guide to likely future development for Madre de Dios, and in time potentially for Pando. Given the correspondence of road paving to deforestation, our findings imply that as road paving increases connectivity, flows of people and goods will accelerate across this landscape, increasing the likelihood of dramatic future changes on all sides of the tri-national frontier.

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Infrastructure And Growth In Developing Countries : Recent Advances And Research Challenges

Cited by 233 publications

References 102 publications

The Impact of Infrastructure on Trade and Economic Growth in Selected Economies in Asia

The Impact of Infrastructure on Trade and Economic Growth in Selected Economies in Asia

Assessing The Impact Of Infrastructure Quality On Firm Productivity In Africa : Cross-Country Comparisons Based On Investment Climate Surveys From 1999 To 2005

Roads as Drivers of Change: Trajectories across the Tri‑National Frontier in MAP, the Southwestern Amazon

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