The Impacts of Infrastructure in Development: A Selective Survey

Yasuyuki Sawada

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Abstract: Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, while proper identification of the causal effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT)-based evaluation, is difficult in the context of large-scale infrastructure. Second, while micro studies so far have focused on the nexus between infrastructure and certain types of poverty outcomes such as income, poverty, health, education, and other individual socio-economic outcomes, to better interpret a wide variety of micro-level infrastructure evaluation results using either experimental or non-experimental methods, the role of infrastructure should be placed in a broader context.

Keywords: market; state; and community mechanisms; infrastructure; china; transportation; water; Korea; power; communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-02
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