A new IDFC Institute report on Infrastructure Priorities for Job Creation in India finds that building roads has the largest impact on employment generation for firms involved in agro-allied and services activities. For industrial firms, investing in resolving water supply issues has the greate...

The insight that infrastructure investments boost the economy of a country is well known since the New Deal was implemented as a way to fight the Great Depression in the USA. Yet, till date academics still debate on how much infrastructure impacts growth. Part of this is to do with complexities arou...