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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Infrastructure investments"”.
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Prioritization of Potable Water Infrastructure Investments on the Navajo Nation
… in part by the lack of an adequate potable water infrastructure which has resulted in health disparities and has attributed to stunted economic growth within the Nation. Large candidate regional water transmission pipelines projects aimed to meet these needs have been identified. With capital …
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Financing infrastructure investments in South Africa : intergovernmental fiscal relations and grant-loan linkages
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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The shareholder-wealth and trading volume effects of information technology infrastructure investments in a developing country
… Africa, particularly regarding the effects of IT infrastructure investment. Therefore this thesis, in a replication of a recent US study, poses the research question: Do South African stock market investors perceive significant value in IT infrastructure investments? The event study methodology …
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Long term infrastructure investments under uncertainty in the electric power sector using approximate dynamic programming techniques
A computer model was developed to find optimal long-term investment strategies for the electric power sector under uncertainty with respect to future regulatory regimes and market conditions. The model is based on a multi-stage problem formulation and uses approximate dynamic programming techniques …
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Analysis Of Infrastructure Investments And Jobs Act, Federal Compliances, Issues And Determining A Framework Of Resources For Compliance Management
The Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA) is a historic legislation bipartisan bill that has empowered the infrastructure development agencies with grants to undertake capital projects to meet the infrastructural needs of the USA. The study presents an analysis of the funding with around a …
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African development bank infrastructure investments in Somalia: an analysis of multilateral development funding within a high-risk socio-economic and political context
The analysis of the African Development Bank's infrastructure investments in Somalia as a Multilateral Development Bank was the main focus of this study. The rationale behind AfDB investments in Somalia, which is unstable politically and economically - and faces terrorism as a threat - was …
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Contracts, not concrete : de-risking private finance of sustainable infrastructure in emerging markets
Matching long-term infrastructure demands in emerging markets with long-dated capital supply - from pension funds, insurers or sovereign wealth funds - has never been so high on the agenda of governments, climate funds and multilateral development banks. It has been argued that with the right …
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Greenwashing? The global rise of sustainability and forced housing displacement in Fortaleza, Brazil
… Specifically, this thesis seeks to uncover why infrastructure investments justified as increasing the capacity for sustainability continue to result in the systematic displacement of low-income informal households. To examine the relationships between sustainable infrastructure investments and …
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Essays On Strategic Choices Over Impaired Water Quality
… we evaluate potential benefits of drinking water infrastructure investments in the United States. We first estimate willingness-to-pay for high-quality drinking water using consumer avoidance behavior in response to health-based drinking water quality violations. We find a modest but statistically …
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Essays in Environmental and Development Economics
… allocation of public investment in healthcare infrastructure. On one hand, democratization limits distortions from Suharto-era biases toward certain areas, such as those within the patronage network. On the other hand, spillover effects are less internalized as districts become more focused on …
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Managing the structure, regulation and infrastructure investment decisions in the natural gas industry of Ghana
… in restructuring, regulations and meeting infrastructure investments requirements. To identify an appropriate industry structure and provide suitable regulatory framework to attract adequate infrastructure investments are the requirement to maintain a viable nascent gas industry. The …
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Applications of optimization to shale oil and gas monetization
… model to determine optimal shale oil and gas infrastructure investments in the United States. Assuming two different scenario sets over a time horizon of twenty-five years, the features of the optimal infrastructure investments and associated operating decisions are determined. The importance …
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Disaggregate Probabilistic Models to Predict Trip Generation Propensities and Mode Choice Behaviour
… behaviour that can guide policy changes and infrastructure investments. This thesis uses two cross-sectional datasets containing various socio-demographic and land-use attributes from 2015 and 2019. Trip-generation propensities for transit and automobile modes are predicted using a bivariate …
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The Contours of the Cloud: Dissecting the Real Estate Investment Decisions of Data Center Operators
… data center operators, with a focus on how key infrastructure characteristics influence data center development. Using a sequential econometric approach, the research applies both a logit and a hedonic model to evaluate the importance of various factors. The logit model explores the likelihood …
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Assessing School Neighborhood Walkability: A Targeted Approach to Safe Routes to School Programming
… thesis intends to demonstrate how capital infrastructure investments can be targeted objectively, using the "Safe Routes to School" (SRTS) program for context. SRTS impacts physical activity, a determinant of childhood obesity by encouraging children’s regular active transportation use. …
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Optimal planning of running time improvements for mixed-use freight and passenger railway lines
… sensitivity of public investment in rail infrastructure and accompanying shortage of state and federal funds, it is important that the most cost effective investments are selected. Many of these endeavors, including high-speed-rail projects with new, dedicated segments, involve …
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Economic Analysis of Infrastructure Investment and Irrigation Budget Issues in a Southwestern U.S. Water Utility
… two policy issues faced by water utilities: infrastructure investment and water budget programs. Water utilities have infrastructure that is deteriorating at an increasing rate, necessitating higher rates of investment from ratepayers. At the same time utilities must improve their management …
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Enhancing state energy production : construction work in progress in energy infrastructure projects
… expansion, industrial growth, and outdated infrastructure, modernizing the electrical grid has become a central issue in energy policy discussions. One key area of focus is the difference in cost recovery mechanisms for construction projects, which significantly affects the scale and timing …
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On practical metrics for network infrastructure reliability
The objective of civil infrastructure design is to provide the best service possible within execution constraints, for a given lifetime service. During this lifetime exceptional events occur which stress the working limits beyond regular performance and may even collapse functionality completely. …
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Economic impacts of the urban ring : a spatial analysis
… distribution of economic impacts from regional infrastructure investments. For this study, I assume that certain distributional impacts depend upon estimated neighborhood-to-neighborhood changes in travel time. I use the proposed Urban Ring in the Greater Boston Area as my case study, and …
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