MPhil - Economics of Infrastructure & Development

Outline

• What is Infrastructure - Characteristics - Features - Necessities
• Infrastructure & Development - Theoretical Understandings - Hirschman - Rostow - Hansen - Impact on Growth & Poverty - Empirical Observations and Experience across countries
• Energy Infrastructure - Criticality of energy infrastructure - Energy planning and INEP - Commercial Energy sector in India - Power infrastructure & associated issues
• (to continue)............

Reading List:

Essential:

• World Development Report, 1994
• India Infrastructure Report - Various Years
• Majumder, R. (2008) - Infrastructure and Development in India: Interlinkages and Policy Issues, Rawat

Other Readings:

• The Impact of Infrastructure on Growth in Developing Countries, Estache and Garsous, 2012, IFC Economics Notes; HERE  
• The Output Cost of of Latin America's Infrastructure Gap, César Calderón and Luis Servén, Central Bank of Chile Working Papers No 186, 2002; HERE
• Hulten, C., and A. Isaksson (2007). Why Development Levels Differ: The Sources of Differential Economic Growth in a Panel of High and Low Income Countries. NBER Working Paper No. 13469. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research; HERE  
• Infrastructure Services In Developing Countries: Access, Quality, Costs and Policy Reforms, C. Briceño-Garmendia, A. Estache, N. Shafik, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3468, December 2004; HERE 
• Infrastructure, Growth, and Inequality: An Overview, César Calderón and Luis Servén, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7034, 2014; HERE  
• Emerging Infrastructure Policy Issues in Developing Countries: A Survey of the Recent Economic Literature, Antonio Estache, Background Paper for the October 2004 Berlin meeting of the POVNET Infrastructure Working Group, World bank; 2004
• Rao, V.K.R.V (1981) 'Infrastructure and Economic Development', Commerce, Annual Number, Vol.141, No.3628, p.9
• Infrastructure and Poverty, Louis Pouliquen, WDR 2000 Background Papers; HERE
• Poverty and Inequality in India: The Role of Infrastructure, Asian Economic Review, Vol 55, No 3, 2013; A previous version HERE 
• Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage, and Transport Costs, Nuno Limao and Anthony Venables, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2257, 1999; HERE

Transport Infrastructure

• Rodrigue, J-P et al. (2018) The Geography of Transport Systems HERE

Energy Infrastructure

• Handout: HERE 
• Isaksson, Anders (2009) - Energy Infrastructure and Industrial Development, UNIDO Working Paper 12/2009, UNIDO: HERE
• Mukherjee, Kalyan (2012) - India’s Energy Imperatives: Macro and Regional Dimensions, Journal of Regional Development and Planning, Vol 1, No 1

Social Infrastructure

• Union Budget of India 2016-17, Ch 10; HERE 
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Assignments:
These assignments are to be submitted as Review Essays (3000 words) - typed and printed in A4 paper with Times New Roman, 12pt font, 1.5 spacing with 1" margin all round. Title, Headings, Subheadings should be of suitable font/formats.

Ekanki: Role of School Infrastructure in Educational Attainment: A Review of Studies across Asia & Africa
Sabana: Infrastructure & Investment: A Review of Studies across Asia & Europe
Souvik: Role of Infrastructure in Human Development: A Review of Studies across Asia & Africa
Triseeta: Infrastructure & FDI: A Review of Studies across Developing countries

Assignments are due on 15th January, 2020, 16.00 hours