Reliable road networks drive economic and social development in emerging economies, particularly those in the Global South, and are crucial for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However...
This paper uses four decades of data on Brazilian municipalities to study the separate and joint impacts of highway and electricity infrastructure access on local economic outcomes. The identification...
This paper explores the effect of road rehabilitation projects on the incidence of violent events using a novel, rich dataset of road rehabilitation projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Violence...
The objective of this study is to measure the extent of destruction of telecommunications infrastructure, the contexts in which telecommunications infrastructures are being targeted, and the associated...
This paper uses panel data over four decades in Brazilian municipalities to study the separate and joint impacts of highway and electricity infrastructure access on local economic outcomes. The identification...
How does the misallocation of complementary public capital affect the spatial organization of economic activity? To answer this question, this paper endogenizes the government's decision to invest in the...
How does the misallocation of complementary public capital affect the spatial organization of economic activity? To answer this question, this paper endogenizes the government’s decision to invest in the...
Realizing the Potential of Energy Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean responds to the urgent need to relaunch the energy efficiency agenda on the continent in the context of post-COVID recovery...
Developing countries face a major challenge of decarbonizing their light-duty vehicle fleet and transitioning to the broad use of electric vehicles. However, there is little evidence on which policies...
Sub-Saharan Africa has vast non-fuel mineral resources that in some countries constitute major shares of their gross domestic product. The region also contains large oil and natural gas resources, which...
This study takes advantage of a publicly salient policy sphere -- road quality -- in the Russian Federation's capital city to explore the use of digital technologies as means of aggregating information...
This study uses a contingent valuation approach to value the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for improved service experienced by households in Nepal following the end of the country's load-shedding crisis of...
This study proposes a novel supply-side mechanism driving economic structural transformation: grid electrification. Increasing electricity availability affects the reallocation of inputs to more productive...
The productivity of the world's natural resources is critically dependent on a variety of highly uncertain factors, which obscure individual investors and governments that seek to make long-term, sometimes...
Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these...
Nepal suffered with severe shortage of electricity supply or load shedding in the last decade. Electricity load shedding is considered one of the major barriers to the country's economic development. This...
This study develops and structurally estimates a model of household and electric utility behavior to describe how the low access rates and high connection charges that are common in the Sub-Saharan Africa...
This study surveys one of the critical welfare aspects of contemplating climate policies in developing countries and their potential effect on workers and labor markets. The existing body of evidence finds...
This study argues that public infrastructure is an important though previously neglected driving mechanism of the structural transformation process. To assess its significance quantitatively, this study...
This study uses the latest 2011 round of Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey for the Russian Federation to take a closer look at regional-level factors influencing the business environment...