Search Results - subject:"Infrastructure development"

Local Government and Rural Infrastructural Delivery in Nigeria

Lawal, Tolu - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 4, pp. 139-147

In the contemporary world today, the need to decentralize administration to facilitate efficiency, effectiveness and good governance has become the rule rather than the exception. Both developed and developing countries ensure that services are delivered to the people at the grassroots. It is no...

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Infrastructure of Public-Scientific Partnership (PSP) in Spatial Development of the Russian Far-East and North-Eastern Asia

Krasnopolski, Boris - European Regional Science Association - 2014

, North-Eastern Asia, Declarations of Ministerial Conferences for Infrastructure Development The Public-Scientific Partnership … on the Declarations of the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conferences on Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) for Infrastructure … Development in Jakarta and Tehran (2010 and 2012) including materials of a High-level Expert Group Meeting in Tehran (2012 …

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Managing for Development Results: Rail Infrastructure Tariffs - Enabling Private Sector Development in Mongolia's Railway Sector

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

Railways are essential for the development and diversification of Mongolia’s economy. The Government of Mongolia recognizes that structural changes will be required to improve the efficiency of the rail sector and to provide incentives for private sector investment. A key step toward rail...

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AGRIBUSINESS POTENTIALS FOR BANGLADESH AN ANALYSIS

MAHBOOB, ALI MUHAMMAD; ISLAM ANISUL M. - In: ЭКОНОМИКА РЕГИОНА (2014) 3, pp. 233-247

Bangladesh cannot sustain long-run economic progress without having a strong agricultural sector accompanied by a dynamic agribusiness sub-sector. This study has been undertaken as an exploratory study to assess the role and significance of agribusiness in Bangladesh along with the current...

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Myanmar: Unlocking the Potential

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB); … - 2014

After 3 years of historic reforms, Myanmar has entered a pivotal stage in its socioeconomic development. Natural, cultural, and demographic advantages are positioning the country for long-term success, but many challenges and potential pitfalls lie ahead. This publication examines how to...

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Fifty Years of Urban Accessibility : The Impact of Urban Railway Network on the Land Gradient in Industrializing Berlin

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Wendland, Nicolai - 2014

As the first to use an archival data set on historical land values of Berlin, Germany, from 1890 to 1936, we exploit exogenous variation in transport technology in order to test the validity of the monocentric city model. Endogenously determining the CBD, we conduct cross-section and time...

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Highway to Success : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...

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Functional Polycentrism and Urban Network Development in the Greater South East UK : Evidence from Commuting Patterns, 1981-2001

de Goei, Bastiaan - 2014

In contemporary literature on changing urban systems, it is often argued that the traditional central place conceptualisation is outdated and should be replaced by a network view that emphasises the increasing criss-crossing pattern of interdependencies between spatial units. This paper tests...

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American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War

Atack, Jeremy - 2014

Studies have shown a connection between finance and growth, but most do not consider how financial and real factors interact to put a virtuous cycle of economic development into motion. As the main transportation advance of the 19th century, railroads connected established commercial centers and...

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Did Railroads Make Antebellum U.S. Banks More Sound?

Atack, Jeremy - 2014

We investigate the relationships of bank failures and balance sheet conditions with measures of proximity to different forms of transportation in the United States over the period from 1830-1860. A series of hazard models and bank-level regressions indicate a systematic relationship between...

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