TY - BOOK ID - 137791419 TI - International Growth Spillovers, Geography and Infrastructure AU - Roberts, Mark AU - Deichmann, Uwe PY - 2009 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Absolute terms KW - Achieving Shared Growth KW - Country Strategy & Performance KW - Developing countries KW - Developing world KW - Development report KW - Development research KW - Development strategy KW - Economic development KW - Economic Growth KW - Economic growth KW - Economic Theory & Research KW - Economics KW - Empirical evidence KW - Empirical growth literature KW - Empirical literature KW - Growth rates KW - Growth regressions KW - Income levels KW - Industrialized countries KW - Landlocked countries KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Policy research KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Rich countries KW - Significant evidence KW - Transport KW - Transport Economics Policy & Planning UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137791419 AB - There is significant academic evidence that growth in one country tends to have a positive impact on growth in neighboring countries. This paper contributes to this literature by assessing whether growth spillovers tend to vary significantly across world regions and by investigating the contribution of transport and communication infrastructure in promoting neighborhood effects. The study is global, but the main interest is on Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors define neighborhoods both in geographic terms and by membership in the same regional trade association. The analysis finds significant evidence for heterogeneity in growth spillovers, which are strong between OECD countries and essentially absent in Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis further finds strong interaction between infrastructure and being a landlocked country. This suggests that growth spillovers from regional "success stories" in Sub-Saharan Africa and other lagging world regions will depend on first strengthening the channels through which such spillovers can spread - most importantly infrastructure endowments. ER -