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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Infrastructure project"”.
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Risk in global infrastructure project financing
Project financing has been the main financing structure of public-private ventures in infrastructure projects. Investors face several risks when going into these projects. These risks are even higher when the project is located in a foreign country. This thesis examines the risk exposure of …
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Financing infrastructure at multilateral development banks: global administrative law and accountability reforms in infrastructure project financing in the BRICS bloc
… been a consequent increasing demand for improved infrastructure within these rapidly industrialising powers. This has compelled multilateral development banks to develop innovative funding solutions. Among these mechanisms is project finance, a relatively novel legal and financial structure …
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A semantic system for stakeholder-sensitive planning and design of sustainable civil infrastructure systems
… in the development of sustainable civil infrastructure systems. It has been acknowledged that one key element of a project is stakeholder involvement. As such, failure to successfully involve the stakeholders of an infrastructure project in its planning and design can drive the failure of …
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Structure finance for hybrid infrastructure models : the application of project finance into public-private partnerships for the construction and operation of infrastructure
This thesis studies the application of project finance as the most efficient financing method for the construction and operation of infrastructure projects such as motorways, airports, power plants, pipelines, wastewater/sewage plants, dams, landline or cellular networks, and natural resources …
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Economic analysis of a land value capture system used to finance road infrastructure: The case of Bogota, Colombia
… among them severe deficiencies in its road infrastructure. Financing of road infrastructure has been possible in part through a land value capture mechanism called ""valorization charges"". The purpose of this thesis is to analyze this financial tool from an economic perspective, using …
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Online Evaluation in WWW-Based Courseware: The Quizit System
… in connection with our NSF-supported Education Infrastructure project on Interactive Learning with a Digital Library in Computer Science to help with evaluation in a master's level course as well as a large freshmen level service course. Preliminary testing in these courses has shown us that …
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Property value impacts of rapid transit accessibility in Boston
… attempted to tap into the value created by major projects to help finance infrastructure investment, but there has yet to be one method that is universally applied. Major infrastructure improvements are expensive, time consuming, and challenging to deliver. While there are multiple hurdles to …
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Analyzing Social Network Discussions of Infrastructure Projects- Towards a Bottom-Up Decision Making Environment
Community debates on infrastructure discussion networks (IDN) through social media outlets (such as Facebook and Twitter) are increasingly used as means to communicate features of infrastructure projects with communities, educate them regarding the project in different phases, and (ideally) collect …
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Simulation-based valuation of project finance investments in sub-Saharan Africa and its effects on net present value and default probabilities
… surrounding the valuation of valuing large-scale infrastructure projects located in emerging and frontier market countries. These are economies which, traditionally, have been characterised as having high levels of risk and uncertainty, thus presenting a significant challenge to capital allocation …
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Business valuation of location-specific infrastructure projects in data-poor regions
… financial values (business values) of physical infrastructure projects is presented from the public point of view. The business valuation model in this thesis adopts three concepts of financial modeling, Monte Carlo simulation (probability-generated cash flow), Capital Asset Pricing Model, and …
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Is planning failing? : the impacts of decision making processes on the Green Line Extension
… Somerville and Medford, Massachusetts. The project is being undertaken by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Due to legal commitments and agreements, the line must be in revenue service by December 31, 2014, or the state …
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A rating system to test private investment decisions in public infrastructure projects
… to evaluate the overall quality of proposed infrastructure projects for private sector financial investment. INFRATEST is meant to aid both potential private infrastructure developers and public entities, which desire to privatize certain infrastructure projects, in selection of the most …
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Identifying the critical success factors in the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in the Zimbabwe electricity energy sector
… from eighteen participants belonging to four project role groups of project managers, module owners, supper (key) users and end users. The researcher conducted in depth interviews with four role groups. The following critical success factors were identified and discussed: Business Plan and …
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Old canal new water architecture : rethinking water heritage tourism in rural environment
… rural area and large scale state sponsored water infrastructure project creates the tension between heritage conservation, local economy and environment protection. Currently, there're very few examples how architecture and landscape design can address this tension and potential. The thesis …
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Project finance in Sub-Saharan African power plants : prevalence and influence of drivers
… widely available in the region, the problem is infrastructure to harness them. Given the high cost of infrastructure and other pressing social needs placing demands on government budgets, the support of private sector is needed in the provision of the infrastructure. Project finance (PF) may be …
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Spatial Thinking as an Analytical Lens for Bilateral International Development: Lessons from the Harbor Reconstruction Project in Jamestown, Accra
… transcalar tensions that emerge from urban infrastructure development projects funded through bilateral foreign assistance mechanisms. Using a mixed-methods case study approach to gather data from a wide variety of historical and contemporary primary and secondary sources, this research …
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Essays in behavioral industrial organization, corruption, and marketing
… A bureaucrat has to decide on a public infrastructure project in a village where a rich and a poor villagers live. A dishonest bureaucrat can be bribed not to choose the surplus maximizing project and instead to choose a project that favors the rich villager. Once the bureaucrat has …
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Designing for Fluid Transitions to Sustainable Infrastructure: The Case of the Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway
… study of the Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway infrastructure project was completed. Ethnographic observation and interviews provided empirical data on the design activities present in this nascent project. The Fluid Transition (FT) approach was adopted as it identifies a role for design in …
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Building a sustainability assessment model for highway infrastructure projects in Yunnan, China
Highway infrastructure development in Yunnan Province remains a top priority for the Chinese Government, the aim is to improve access to neighbouring countries and support economic growth and social development in the province. While the social and economic benefits of highway infrastructure …
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Supporting the emergence of a shared services organisation: Managing change in complex health ICT projects
… risk of failure in the implementation of ICT projects (which appears to extend to health ICT projects), we continue to implement health information systems in order to deliver quality, cost-effective healthcare. The purpose of the research was to participate in and study the change management …
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