 | Internet Adoption Trends during COVID-19 Release Date:March, 2023 This paper examines the common perception that internet adoption accelerated globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data show little evidence of a faster expansion of access to internet more...
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 | Determinants and Social Dividends of Digital Adoption Author/Editor: Utkarsh Kumar, David Amaglobeli, Mariano Moszoro. Release Date:March, 2023 We identify key drivers of digital adoption, estimate fiscal costs to provide internet subsidies to households, and calculate social dividends from digital adoption. Using cross-country panel more...
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 | Public versus Private Cost of Capital with State-Contingent Terminal Value Author/Editor: Luciano Greco, Mariano Moszoro. Release Date:March, 2023 The economic debate underlines the reasons why discount rates of infrastructure projects should be similar, regardless the public or private source of financing, during the forecast period when flows more...
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 | Estimating Digital Infrastructure Investment Needs to Achieve Universal Broadband Author/Editor: Edward Oughton, David Amaglobeli, Mariano Moszoro. Release Date:February, 2023 We develop a detailed model to evaluate the necessary investment requirements to achieve affordable universal broadband. The results indicate that approximately $418 billion needs to be mobilized to more...
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 | Road Quality and Mean Speed Score Author/Editor: Mariano Moszoro, Mauricio Soto. Release Date:May, 2022 We introduce a novel measure of cross-country road quality based on the travel mean speed between large cities from Google Maps. This measure is useful to assess road infrastructure and access gaps. more...
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 | The Spending Challenge of Achieving the SDGs in South Asia: Lessons from India Author/Editor: Mercedes García-Escribano, Tewodaj Mogues, Mariano Moszoro, Mauricio Soto. Release Date:December, 2021 South Asia has experienced significant progress in improving human and physical capital over the past few decades. Within the region, India has become a global economic powerhouse with enormous more...
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 | The Direct Employment Impact of Public Investment Author/Editor: Marian Moszoro. Release Date:May, 2021 We evaluate the direct employment effect of the public investment in key infrastructure—electricity, roads, schools and hospitals, and water and sanitation. Using rich firm-level panel data from 41 more...
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 | Optimal Capital Structure of Public-Private Partnerships Author/Editor: Pawel Gasiorowski, Marian Moszoro. Release Date:January, 2008 This paper presents a model to assess the efficiency of the capital structure in public-private partnerships (PPP). A main argument supporting the PPP approach for investment projects is the transfer more...
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