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
- 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
- Rodrigue, J-P et al. (2018) The Geography of Transport Systems HERE
- 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
- Union Budget of India 2016-17, Ch 10; HERE
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
