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infrastructures. One product of this trend is the ‘inverse infrastructure,’ which refers to a modularized, semi-autonomous and user …-driven infrastructure that is a result of the self-organization of local actors. In this study, we discuss the nature of such … infrastructures and the challenges they pose to local infrastructure policy with special reference to the case of water cooperatives …
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Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this … association is different across types of infrastructure and regions. The present paper explores the multidimensional association … between infrastructure and poverty in India in a regional framework. Infrastructural availability improves average living …
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Auction mechanisms commonly used in practice for awarding infrastructure concession contracts induce a bias towards the …
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infrastructure development in Pakistan. This is an effort to provide evidence on the two highly debatable issues, i.e. money …, monetary and financial growth and infrastructure development. The data are collected from 1971-72 to 2003-04 on annual basis … assesses that a long-run relationship exists among social, real, monetary and infrastructure activities. The paper has applied …
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The aim of the paper is to analyse the most important quantitative data on Italian expenditures in transport infrastructures (investment and maintenance costs), linking the expenditure with traffic flows. The analysis concerns rail and road networks (both for national and local roads), over the...
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Adequate and efficient infrastructure is required for sustainable economic growth and improved quality of life. In this …
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Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite...
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Kerala has a high status in infrastructure development in India and her experiences in social infrastructure … growth is suggested whereby the human development Kerala had achieved by means of infrastructure development propelled …’). An attempt is also made to correlate quality and freedom in the context of infrastructure development. Defining …
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(national roads and rails, highway, airports concessions) in the field of infrastructure financing. All the actors are trying to …
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, PPP, price cap, etc.), the paper is structured by modes. For each infrastructure type (national roads, highways, railways …
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