ABSTRACT
The lack of infrastructure services often referred as the infrastructure gap is felt throughout the economy and society at large. The infrastructure gap acts as a bottleneck to economic sectors, directly curtailing the growth potential. It also impacts negatively the opportunities to improve health, education, and other social sectors that can be just as, or even more, important to current welfare improvement, poverty alleviation, and future economic growth. The infrastructure gap often disproportionally affects the poor more than the rich not only at the population level but also at different jurisdictions within a country. Even if the rich also suffer with the infrastructure gap, rich people, districts, and countries are also more able to implement coping mechanisms.
