Investing in Infrastructure: A Growth Strategy that Favors the Poor?

How large are gains from basic infrastructure investments, and to what extent are they beneficial to the poor? Researchers variously argue that such investments can reduce poverty. It may be that the poor have least access to infrastructure, and so will benefit most from new investments; alternatively the poor may be concen-trated in sectors of the economy where rates of return to infrastructure investment are highest. Based on a case study in Vietnam