Seethepalli, KalpanaBramati, Maria CaterinaVeredas, David2012-05-302012-05-302008-04https://hdl.handle.net/10986/6727This paper seeks to shed some light on the extent to which infrastructure sub-sectors - energy, telecommunications, water supply, sanitation, and transport - contributed to growth in East Asia during 1985-2004. It also attempts to provide additional insights on whether the relationship between infrastructure and growth depends on five additional variables: the degree of private participation in infrastructure, the quality of governance, the extent of rural-urban inequality in access to infrastructure services, country income levels, as well as geography. The findings show that greater stocks of infrastructure were indeed associated with higher growth. However, a more nuanced look at the sensitivity of infrastructure impacts on the five additional variables yields different results, with some sectors supporting conventional expectations and others yielding mixed or counter-intuitive results. In particular, the telecom and sanitation sectors yield statistically significant results supporting the a priori hypotheses; electricity and water infrastructure provide mixed results; and road infrastructure consistently contradicts a priori expectations. The results are consistent with the widely-accepted idea in policy research that infrastructure plays an important role in promoting growth, as well as with the viewpoint that certain countries' endowments influence the growth-related impacts of infrastructure.CC BY 3.0 IGOACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTUREACCOUNTINGADBAIRAIR TRANSPORTALTERNATIVE MODESALTERNATIVE MODES OF TRANSPORTATIONBUSINESS ENVIRONMENTCITIZENSCORRUPTIONDATA AVAILABILITYDATA QUALITYDECENTRALIZATIONDIRECT INVESTMENTECONOMETRICSECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC POLICIESECONOMIES OF SCALEELASTICITIESELASTICITYEMPLOYMENTEXTERNALITIESFINANCE INFRASTRUCTUREFINANCIAL PERFORMANCEGOOD GOVERNANCEGOVERNANCE INDICATORSGOVERNANCE QUALITYGRAND CORRUPTIONGROWTH PERFORMANCEGROWTH RATEGROWTH RATESHUMAN CAPITALHUMAN DEVELOPMENTINCOMEINCOME DISTRIBUTIONINCOME LEVELINCOME LEVELSINEQUALITYINFLATIONINFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTINFRASTRUCTURE PRIVATIZATIONINFRASTRUCTURE REFORMINFRASTRUCTURE SERVICESINSTITUTIONAL CAPACITYINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTINVESTMENT CLIMATELIVING STANDARDSLOW INCOME COUNTRIESMACROECONOMICSMEASUREMENT ERRORMEASUREMENT ERRORSMONETARY ECONOMICSNATIONAL INCOMENATIONAL POLICIESNATURAL RESOURCESPACIFIC ISLANDSPACIFIC REGIONPER CAPITA INCOMEPETTY CORRUPTIONPOLICY IMPLICATIONSPOLITICAL ECONOMYPOLITICAL INFRASTRUCTUREPOLITICAL INSTABILITYPOOR GOVERNANCEPOOR PERFORMANCEPOPULATION GROWTHPRODUCTIVITYRAILWAYSREVERSE CAUSALITYROADROAD INFRASTRUCTUREROAD NETWORKROADSSANITATIONSAVINGSSAVINGS RATESSCHOOLSSOCIAL INTERACTIONSSUB-SAHARAN AFRICATAXTECHNOLOGICAL CHANGETELEPHONE LINESTRANSACTION COSTSTRANSPARENCYTRANSPORTTRANSPORT COSTSTRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURETRANSPORTATIONTRUCKSURBAN POPULATIONURBANIZATIONUTILITIESWATER SUPPLYWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-4597