The Role and Impact of Infrastructure in Middle-Income Countries: Anything Special?

Abiad, Abdul; Debuque-Gonzales, Margarita; Sy, Andrea Loren

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“…Each LMIC obviously presents characteristics that are unique to its context; yet, commonalities exist in the political and social features of most LMIC. These commonalities include, for instance: traditional forms of power often compensating for weaker state control and enforcement of the law (Englebert, 2009); relatively weak infrastructures (including reduced access to information and communication technology) (Abiad et al , 2017); and persistent economic deprivation impacting on the effectiveness of the formal health systems (Mills, 2011).…”

Section: Social Norms and Health Interventions In Lmicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using social norms theory for health promotion in low-income countries

Cislaghi

Heise

2018

Health Promotion International

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Social norms can greatly influence people's health-related choices and behaviours. In the last few years, scholars and practitioners working in low- and mid-income countries (LMIC) have increasingly been trying to harness the influence of social norms to improve people's health globally. However, the literature informing social norm interventions in LMIC lacks a framework to understand how norms interact with other factors that sustain harmful practices and behaviours. This gap has led to short-sighted interventions that target social norms exclusively without a wider awareness of how other institutional, material, individual and social factors affect the harmful practice. Emphasizing norms to the exclusion of other factors might ultimately discredit norms-based strategies, not because they are flawed but because they alone are not sufficient to shift behaviour. In this paper, we share a framework (already adopted by some practitioners) that locates norm-based strategies within the wider array of factors that must be considered when designing prevention programmes in LMIC.

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Section: Social Norms and Health Interventions In Lmicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using social norms theory for health promotion in low-income countries

Cislaghi

Heise

2018

Health Promotion International

174

134

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“…The authors find a clear pattern in the sectoral provision of infrastructure across development stages, with basic infrastructures such as transport and water and sanitation emphasized more during the early stages and more advanced infrastructure such as power and ICT becoming more important during later stages. Abiad et al (2017) also show that fastergrowing countries invest more in infrastructure than slowergrowing countries and also tend to have a greater share of infrastructure in ICT.…”

Section: Trade Openness and Infrastructure Developmentmentioning

confidence: 89%

Infrastructure and International Trade Theory:Multiple Equilibria, Trade Patterns, and Nonlinear Dynamics

Yanase

2023

The International Economy

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There is no doubt that various types of public infrastructure play a key role in economic development and social wellbeing. Over the last two decades, a number of empirical studies have analyzed the relationship between the levels or quality of physical or institutional infrastructure and international trade. While there is enough evidence for the positive effects of infrastructure on trade volumes, the effects on comparative advantage and trade patterns are yet to be elaborated. There is also little evidence on how infrastructure levels can be affected by trade openness or countryspecific characteristics through trade channels. The lack of clear empirical evidence on these aspects suggests that the interactions between infrastructure and trade can be complex. A possible explanation of such complexity is the nonconvexity of production technology or increasing returns in the presence of infrastructure. It is well known that nonconvexities and increasing returns may cause multiple equilibria. This paper focuses on the possibility of such multiple equilibria in the context of infrastructure and trade. In particular, this paper presents recent theoretical studies demonstrating the existence of multiple equilibria, irregular patterns of trade, and historydependent dynamic paths.

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“…Second, formulation of the National Long-Term Development Plan (RPJPN) 2025-2045 is currently underway, so this study can improve the quality of development planning, particularly connectivity infrastructure. As a developing country, Indonesia requires accelerated development of basic service infrastructure, including connectivity infrastructure in the form of roads (Abiad et al, 2017). Any laws and regulations that cannot be implemented optimally must be immediately identified and responded to systematically through a series of stages and parameters to decide to revise or revoke them (PSHK, 2019).…”

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Regulatory Review on Policy of Special Allocation Fund for Road Sector in 2015-2019

Azaki

Lutfi

2023

J. Public Policy

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Regulation is one of the critical instruments for implementing a policy. State regulations function at least to provide legal certainty, guidelines/instructions, frameworks, and limitations of program/policy implementation. The special allocation fund is an intergovernmental transfer for financing road infrastructure under the local government authority and aligned with national priorities. This study aims to analyze the regulatory framework that governs the implementation of this capital grant for the road sector by taking the 2015-2019 timeframe. The research is qualitative and uses a normative juridical method through a statute approach using primary material in the form of laws and regulations related to the 2015-2019 capital grants for the road sector. The results showed several regulatory incompleteness, discrepancies in content both horizontally and vertically, and weaknesses in legal blanket for monitoring and evaluation. This study recommends strengthening the harmonization of regulations to ensure no inconsistencies or contradictions. Furthermore, the study also emphasizes the importance of conducting regulatory review considering that the long-term development planning (RPJPN) of 2025-2045 is being drafted so that such precedents of disharmonization do not occur anymore.

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The Role and Impact of Infrastructure in Middle-Income Countries: Anything Special?

Cited by 4 publications

References 42 publications

Using social norms theory for health promotion in low-income countries

Using social norms theory for health promotion in low-income countries

Infrastructure and International Trade Theory:Multiple Equilibria, Trade Patterns, and Nonlinear Dynamics

Regulatory Review on Policy of Special Allocation Fund for Road Sector in 2015-2019

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