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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"public works"”.
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The anatomy of public works : an exploration of the social protection function of public works programmes in contexts of chronic poverty
… thesis critically explores the concept of the Public Works Programme (PWP) and interrogates the social protection performance of public works programmes (PWPs) in the context of chronic poverty, with a particular focus on the fundamental questions of programme incidence and impact. It reviews …
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State of roads : public works as research, India circa 1960
… contingencies of available infrastructural networks. The state's attempt at being modern, doing modernity, emerged in the details of road making. In the 1960s research projects investigating rigid and flexible pavements were funded, street-paint and signage was experimented with, traffic …
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A discriminant model for classifying contractor performance on public works projects
… but levels of importance assigned by public clients and clients' representatives were found to be significantly different to some extent in building and civil engineering works. Based on data from 68 small to medium size UK minor works (below £50 million), a contractor classification …
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DesignWork : a study of public works programmes in South African architectural projects
… job-creation and training goals of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), a government-led poverty relief initiative. In so doing, they have a mandate both to design buildings and to design work for the poorest of the poor. This unique context of architectural practice is herein termed …
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Public works as a response to labour market failure in South Africa
… incidence of unemployment among racial groups. Public works programming offers a response to both poverty and unemployment, while also addressing the linked national priority issue of asset creation. This paper discusses the option of state intervention through public works, reviewing the South …
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Black Public Works: The Political Economy of Race and New Deal Infrastructure
This thesis examines how New Deal public works intersected with race during a critical juncture in American political development and spatial rationalization. The narrative of the New Deal has often underestimated the infrastructure building that became the nucleus of the Roosevelt Administration’s …
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The housing division of the public works administration in its architectural context
The architectural articulation of American public housing, first introduced in 1933 as an element of the New Deal program, is analyzed with regard to the position occupied by housing within the contemporary political framework and to the administrative measures established to realize the housing …
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The Public Works Loan Board 1817-76 and the financing of public infrastructure
The Public Works Loan Board 1817-1876 and the financing of public infrastructure. The Public Works Loan Board was formed in 1817, mainly to lend money to finance public infrastructure. Nearly 200 years later, the PWLB is the major source of loans to finance local government infrastructure. Yet no …
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The coverage adequacy and graduation under the Expanded Public Works Programme in South Africa
The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is one of the South African government’s strategies to reduce poverty. It provides income relief by availing temporary work opportunities for South Africa’s unemployed people including those in rural areas such as the Thulamela Local Municipality. Studies …
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A Sociotechnical Systems Analysis of the Approval Process for a Complex Public Works Proposal
… a decision process to approve or reject a public works proposal to join a metropolitan public utility. The proposal was submitted to the towns in the form of a technical engineering feasibility study which was distributed to the council members in each town. Qualitative data was collected …
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Management of Boundary Objects in a Shared Information Space for a Public Works Organization
An activity-interest model was developed and implemented in a program called CITY INFO-PLUS, which represents information via boundary objects in a dynamic contextual manner. This application demonstrates a way for operationalizing the theoretical concept of boundary objects that is taken from the …
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Organizational learning and knowledge management: application within the Kwazulu- Natal department of public works
… information at the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Public Works. This report provides a review and interpretation of knowledge management literatures in the project environment with a focus on the project closeout stage and the role and value that lessons learnt from post project reviews could …
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The impact of the Expanded Public Works Programme on poverty alleviation and skills development for Social
The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) was announced by the former president, Mr Thabo Mbeki, in 2002. The EPWP is one part of an overall government strategy to reduce poverty through the alleviation and reduction of unemployment. It is a deliberate approach to ensure that participants gain the …
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Passionate blood, Puritan conscience : an intertextual study of the private and public works of L.M. Montgomery
The publication of The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, the first volume of which appeared in 1985, has inspired a surge of critical interest in the life and works of L. M. Montgomery. Although one of the most interesting areas of study resulting from the publication of the journals is the …
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Heteroglossia and ‘hagiography’: authorship, authorisation and the collective/ individual couplet in different every time and associated public works
… I critically reflect on the accompanying public works, including my authorised biography of the British musician Robert Wyatt. The contribution to knowledge is twofold. Firstly, there is the fact that, despite his status as a musician, mine is to date the only Robert Wyatt biography, while …
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Public Works Programmes: Review of their effectiveness and empirical essays on their contribution to climate resilience and social cohesion
… these pressing challenges have been ascribed to public works programmes (PWPs). These are social protection instruments which offer remuneration (in cash or kind) for vulnerable people in exchange for temporary work on labour-intensive low-skill activities with social benefits. PWPs are being …
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Putting the poor to work: a conceptual and critical analysis of the Expanded Public Works Programme in South Africa
This thesis looks into how the concept of Public Works Programmes has developed along historical and theoretical lines to reveal how authors writing for international institutions such as the World Bank have substantially dominated the production of knowledge on the topic. This has led to …
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The Impact of Extended Public Works Program (EPWP) on job creation in local government : A case study of Thulamela Local Municipality
… study was to investigate the impact of Extended Public Works Programmes (EPWP) project on job creation in the Thulamela Local Municipality. The main aim of EPWP is to create job opportunities for disabled persons, women and youth. The reviewed literature provided the investigated challenges that …
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