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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Infrastructure (Economics)"”.
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Reinventing Infrastructure Economics: Theory and Empirics
… under which state-owned enterprises improve infrastructure services--transport, energy, and water--particularly in developing countries. This research is relevant because, despite successful privatization of infrastructure that yielded over trillion and a half dollars in investments since …
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Environmental Policy Impacts: A Comparative Study Of Electric Vehicle Policies In The U.S. And China
… settlement patterns, climate/terrain, infrastructure economics, and local implementation capacity to explain why EV adoption and charging rollout scale unevenly across regions. Section 5 applies a case-based institutional comparison to the United States and China, showing how differing …
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Tracking Sargassum in the Caribbean: the design, deployment, and validation of a low-cost surface drifter
… Sargassum for biofuels, taking into account infrastructure, economics, and scientific challenges. Although Sargassum holds promise as a renewable biomass source, several hurdles must be addressed, including consistent biomass production, processing techniques, and lack of industrial-scale …
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Tracking Sargassum in the Caribbean: The Design, Deployment, and Validation of a Low-Cost Surface Drifter
… Sargassum for biofuels, taking into account infrastructure, economics, and scientific challenges. Although Sargassum holds promise as a renewable biomass source, several hurdles must be addressed, including consistent biomass production, processing techniques, and lack of industrial-scale …
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Integrating social and environmental impacts of green transportation infrastructure : a framework for effective decision-making
Green Infrastructure (GI) gains recognition as a viable alternative to traditional infrastructure due to its economic, environmental, and social benefits. However, quantifying and monetizing GI's social and environmental impacts pose challenges, leading to their neglect in comparative evaluations. …
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Digital Infrastructure Policy and Small Business Digitalisation: Evidence From the UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout During Covid-19
This thesis examines the causal impact of digital infrastructure and grant policies on firm digitalisation using comprehensive panel data from 1,514 UK firms over 2017-2022. Observing the staggered geographic rollout of the UK government's £5 billion Project Gigabit broadband infrastructure …
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Legal and institutional frameworks as determinants of access to capital by developing countries
… as real investment or portfolio investment for infrastructure development.
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Non-motorised transport (nmt) infrastructure along selected roads in the city of Lusaka: status, experience and policy
… have concentrated investments on road infrastructure which favours the minority motorised transport (MT) users through construction and widening of City roads. This has had the effect of reducing transport options for the majority as their NMT environment remains in a poor state. …
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Non-motorised transport (nmt) infrastructure along selected roads in the city of Lusaka: status, experience and policy
… have concentrated investments on road infrastructure which favours the minority motorised transport (MT) users through construction and widening of City roads. This has had the effect of reducing transport options for the majority as their NMT environment remains in a poor state. …
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Public Sector Infrastructure Delivery Through Public Private Partnerships in Zambia
… which have made maintenance and provision of new infrastructure a challenge. PPPs seem to create opportunities which can stimulate investment in infrastructure development and economic growth. The aim of the study reported was to highlight benefits, constraints and risks inherent in the …
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Construyendo la educación: infraestructura como determinante del rendimiento académico en el Perú 2000-2015
… focuses on the study of variables related to the infrastructure of the country's educational institutions, and the impact of these on the academic performance of students in Reading comprehension and mathematics. In this regard, results will be presented following estimates of static and dynamic …
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Efecto de la inversión pública en infraestructura económica y social sobre el índice de desarrollo humano en el Perú para el periodo 2007-2016
El objetivo general de este estudio es analizar el efecto de la inversión pública en infraestructura vial, eléctrica, de irrigación, saneamiento, salud y educación sobre el Índice de Desarrollo Humano a nivel regional en el Perú en los años 2007-2016, a fin de proponer, las políticas y estrategias …
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The Jamaican Marronage, a Social Pseudomorph: The Case of the Accompong Maroons
… to land and other resources, lack of economic infrastructure, and constraints on food marketeers and migration. This finding does not support the concept of communalism presented in previous studies.
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Stochastic Optimization and Optimal Control for Complex Networked Infrastructures
Networked infrastructures (e.g., power grids and water networks) are becoming increasingly complicated systems due to accelerating integration of distributed devices, increasing scale of network systems, heterogeneous distributed control strategies, nonlinear nature of physical models and …
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The infrastructure cost planning model : an integrated solution to cost effective design
Submitted in fulfilment of the academic requirements for the Degree of Master of Technology: Civil Engineering and Surveying, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2009.
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Socio-economic impact assessment of the Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG), with specific reference to Buffalo City Metro Municipality
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for a Master’s Degree in Public Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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Exploring public-private partnerships for enhancing border security through space technology in South Africa
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.