China, Russia and India, three major members of BRICS, share a strong trade relationship in over a duration of time. These countries have shown remarkable growth in various sectors overtaking EU and North American countries. Infrastructure investment is a crucial factor to give a momentum to progress of any country. This study attempts to understand the long run and short run effect of total inland infrastructure investment on freight growth in the said countries. In this study, Autoregressive Distributed Lag [ARDL] bounds testing approach was used to examine the impact of total inland transport infrastructure investment on total inland freight transport in the emerging economies, viz. China, Russia and India. Results indicate that China has higher positive affect of inland infrastructure investment on freight growth rate in the short run while India has higher positive affect in long run. Russia, owing to lower population, trade and industrialization growth showed to have lower freight growth in both short run and long run.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.