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Table 9 Variables and data sources of Global Infrastructure Index

From: Does infrastructure increase exports and reduce trade deficit? Evidence from selected South Asian countries using a new Global Infrastructure Index

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Variables

Normalization of the variables

Data source

01

Transport infrastructure

(A) Land transport

(i) Length of total road network

(ii) Paved road

(iii) Proportion of motorways

(iv) Registered passenger cars

Population density

International Road Federation (IRF) World Road Statistic and World Development Indicators (WDI)

(v) No. of registered commercial-vehicles

Population density of Pakistan

Facts and figures of (VDA) German Association (GAAI) of the Automotive Industry

(vi) Length of total railway route

Population density of Pakistan

WDI

(vii) Goods-transported

Area

(viii) Railway passengers

Population size

(B) C transport

Overall carrying capacity of economy ships

(i) Relative to its geographic area

(ii) % of aggregate world-carrying capacity

 

(UNCTAD) United Nations Conference of Trade and Development Data Base

(C) Air transport

(i) Carrier departure registered in Pakistan

Relative to population

WDI

(ii) Volume of air-freight

Relative to country size

2

Telecommunication infrastructure

(i) No. of fixed-telephone lines

(ii) Mobile-cellular-telephone subscribers

(iii) No. of ISDN subscribers

For quality measures

(a) Faults per 100 fixed-telephones lines in 1 year (expressed in per capita terms)

 

WDI

3

Energy infrastructure

(i) Consumption of electric power

(ii) Production of electric power

Note: both undermentioned indicators are measure in per capita terms

For quality measures:

(a) Electric-power transmission and distribution losses (% of output)

 

WDI

4

Financial infrastructure

(i) Stock market turn-over ratio [efficiency]

(ii) No. of “Bank Account” per capita

(iii) Values of overall “traded share” outside the major “10 traded companies” as a shares of the aggregate value of overall traded share

(iv) No. of public recorded “companies per capita”

(v) “Private credit” by deposit money, banks “Relative-GDP”

(vi) Values of aggregate shares traded on the “Stock Market” exchange (relative to gross domestic product)

(vii) Money (M2) and quasi-money percentage of GDP

Note: all these selected indicators or employed in log form excluding no. of bank account and no. of public listed companies

 

World Bank Global Financial Development Data Base