Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network

We are grateful to seminar participants, and particularly Stuart Rosenthal, for helpful suggestions/comments. We are particularly indebted to Louis Maiden, Katie McWilliams, Sarah Elizabeth Antos, and Henry Jewell for excellent data work and maps. Funding for this project was graciously provided by a Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries grant by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Harvard Business School, and the World Bank's Multi-Donor Trade Trust Fund and the Research Support Budget (RSB). Das was with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) when this project was initiated. The views expressed in the paper are not the views of the RBI nor of any institution the authors are currently associated with. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.