Social, Health, and Environmental Infrastructures for Economic Growth

Given a large literature available on linkage of physical infrastructure on productive sectors (industrial and service), the effect of physical and social infrastructure on the social sector of the economy has remained a bit under focussed. With individual and scattered studies available on the afore-mentioned area, there is a dearth of literature on the entire gamut of issues across the length and breadth of geographical span of developing countries. This book serves the purpose by discussing critical issues related to the linkage of infrastructure with health, education, environment in several Asian, African and Latin American economies. Arranged nicely in 15 chapters, the book brings in the sectors that are less discussed with the linkage of infrastructure, namely ports, electric generation and distribution etc. Most of the chapters are based on empirical evidence based research, with a strong conceptual framework.