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Showing 1 to 20 of 242 for “"Infrastructure Development"”.
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Essays on Infrastructure Development and Public Finance
This dissertation focuses on the economics of infrastructure development and public finance. The dissertation is composed of three papers: The first paper analyzes the optimal solutions for supplying electricity to national economies from both domestic as well as distant energy resources using …
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Infrastructure development in Lebanon : public/private partnerships
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Pension fund Investment and infrastructure development in Namibia
… such as Namibia, need to bridge the existing infrastructure gap to improve the country's comparative advantage, economic growth and competitiveness, quality of life and the welfare of its citizens. As traditional sources of finance dwindle, Pension Fund savings need to be pooled to complement …
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Potential impacts of hard infrastructure development on agricultural trade
The development of hard infrastructure has the potential to enhance agricultural production and international agricultural trade. Good quality physical networks could reduce the transport costs for producers and suppliers, thereby increasing the volume of agricultural bilateral trade. For most …
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Using project bonds to fund South Africa's infrastructure development
The growing use of project bonds in funding infrastructure globally deserves attention. Although primarily dominated by the developed markets, emerging markets such as Latin America and Asia have also been successful in using project bonds to finance their infrastructure projects. The project bond …
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Aligning infrastructure development strategy to meet current public needs
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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Portfolio management : a tool for strategically planning infrastructure development
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.
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Land-incentivized joint ventures for infrastructure development in India
… with providing the necessary urban and regional infrastructure to accommodate this growth. At present, existing urban infrastructure systems are operating well above capacity so that any response must address both the existing shortfall and impending demand. To meet its massive infrastructure …
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Digging for Growth? Which infrastructure development should African countries prioritise?
This study investigates the impact of infrastructure development on economic growth among 10 selected African countries over a period of 15 years from 2000 – 2015. The study uses panel data to analyse the effect of infrastructure components on economic growth. The findings show that infrastructure …
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Enhancing food security in Zambia: supply-demand adaptation and infrastructure development
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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"Public procurement challenges and reforms for infrastructure development in South Africa"
… makes use of public procurement to develop infrastructure in South Africa. The courts' involvement in the development of procurement and administrative law in so far as it relates to procurement is particularly evident where the procurement process relates to large-scale infrastructure …
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India's infrastructure development and the lessons from China's experences [i.e. experience]
Infrastructure plays an important role in a country's economic development, it is also essential to recover from the financial crisis. The history of developed countries shows that infrastructure contributed a lot in economic development, and maintaining & upgrading infrastructure is also important …
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Herbarium infrastructure development and ecological applications of specimens using geographic information systems
… new GIS technology into a functional infrastructure in order to enhance botanical research. Evaluations were performed on database and georeferencing software for use in the development of a pilot, GIS-enabled website used to query herbaria specimen information. Using this newly …
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The Effects of Infrastructure Development and Taxation on Current and Future Earnings
… of this work is to analyze how taxation and infrastructure development aspects the current and future earnings using these policies</p> <p>In the first essay, I use a national infrastructure development program initiated in India in 2001 to construct new all-season roads (roads that can be …
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“Triple Ps” in infrastructure development and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the public sector could improve the impact that infrastructure investments have on economic growth by improving operational efficiency and innovation. In terms of the difference in the results per sector, it does appear that PPPs in water and sewerage have a stronger effect on economic growth …
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Environment and infrastructure development in mega-cities : the case of Shanghai, China
… growth is placing a major burden on the city's infrastructure and local environment. The purpose of this thesis is to developing an understanding of the current infrastructure situation in Shanghai, its potential development in future and its impacts on the environment. First, the thesis will …
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De-risking project finance for infrastructure development through flexibility in engineering design
An approach to de-risking infrastructure projects and increasing their bankability is proposed, where flexible design is used to complement traditional Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) under Project Finance schemes. By definition, forecasts of future project performance will 'always' be wrong in …
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Infrastructure development for integration of lip reading into the SUMMIT Speech Recognizer
… not been implemented, this thesis describes the infrastructure that has been developed to accommodate integration with a visual lip-reading module that will be completed in the near future.
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A comparative analysis of public infrastructure development in France and the U.K.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Sustainability Discourses on Controversial Infrastructure Development: Investigating their Mobilization in Environmental Impact Assessment
… sustainability impacts associated with project development. It is reasoned that, where adverse sustainability impacts are likely to occur, situated civil society stakeholders involved in deliberating these impacts will mobilize discourses on how the proposed development relates to achieving …
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