Infra sectors that boost growth

Apply proven policies in telecom and electricity to rev up the economy

Does infrastructure spending promote economic growth, or is it the other way around? The arguments go back to questions such as whether building America’s railroads in the 1850s led to growth, or the reverse. While the costs and benefits of building transportation may be contested, partly because of what is measured and what is not, one positive linkage that has emerged is between improvements in information and communications technology and economic growth. 

Potentially useful findings are given below.

1. A World Bank study (2021) reviewed the contribution of three categories of infrastructure to growth from 1992-2017: Transport, electricity, and telecommunications.