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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"infrastructural investment"”.
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How Do You Mobilize Public Support for Infrastructural Investment in California’s Aging Water System?
<p>This paper looks at how the state of California maintains an aging water system – the California State Water Project (SWP) – that will threaten California’s water supply if further maintained, and concludes that the system faces three major problems that are of concern in 2017 – aging pipes, …
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Investigating the prudential determinants of infrastructural investment appraisal techniques in airports company South Africa
… limited financial resources, to service public infrastructural needs; therefore, the national government implemented the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium [SIDSSA] initiative on 23 June 2020 to accelerate the delivery of country infrastructure. However, project appraisal was …
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Irish state infrastructural investment: an analysis of past patterns, and an outline of a future integrated systems of systems evaluation methodology
… historic national and spatial distribution of investment by the Irish state in its physical networks (water, wastewater and roads) across the 34 local authorities and examines how Ireland is perceived internationally relative to its economic counterparts. An appraisal of the current status and …
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BusBuzzard and WideWorld : decreasing the uncertainty of multimodal transportation
… systems, reducing travel uncertainty without the infrastructural investment normally required to increase reliability. I present two projects that explore the idea that a web-work of data-producing shared infrastructure joined by user-facing traveler information systems comprise an aggregate …
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Collective ownership in the South African small-scale fishing sector: a framework for sustained economic growth
… benefit and effectively secure government’s infrastructural investment programme within the small-scale fisheries sector.
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Game-theoretic methods for security and resilience in cyber-physical systems
… understanding of pricing, energy policies and infrastructural investment decision in future highly interconnected and interdependent energy systems. Examples from power systems, cognitive radio communication networks, and the smart grid are used as driving examples for illustrating new solution …
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Competing for Foreign Direct Investment Through Investment in Public Infrastructure
In the first essay we examine optimal investment in public infrastructure when used to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). We model a monopolistic multinational firm that wants to establish its production plant in one of two prospective host countries with segmented markets, hence there is no …
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Financial media, globalisation, and China’s economic integration: comparing narrative construction of the Economist and Caijing
In June 2015, legal frameworks of the Asian Infrastructural Investment Bank were signed by its 57 founding members. Proposed and initiated by China, this multilateral development bank is considered to be an Asian counterpart to break the monopoly of the World Bank and the International Monetary …