ABSTRACT
This chapter explores revolutionary relationship between infrastructure, human development, and the environment. It begins with infrastructure's impact on human development and start with the relationship between infrastructure and economic growth because that connection has received the most attention from researchers and decision makers. The impact of infrastructure on development in a literature review for the World Bank on the "poverty alleviation impact of increased access to infrastructure services in four sectors: energy, water and sanitation, information and communication technologies, and transportation". Infrastructure's most important role in agriculture is to reduce the transaction costs caused by distance and/or farm isolation. The effectiveness of agricultural extension highlights the growing importance of information and communication technologies (ICT) in agriculture. An analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data for nine countries by the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group found that children in households with electricity have higher education levels than those without electricity, even after controlling for parental education, household income, and school facilities.
