Infrastructure contributes to economic development both by increasing productivity and by providing amenities which enhance the quality of life. The Planning Commission has estimated that investment in infrastructure - defined broadly to include road, rail, air and water transport, electric...

The case looks into the management aspects of Project Greenhands, an outreach initiative of Isha Foundation, a non-political non-religious organization founded by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev to promote well-being of the individual, society and the world. At a superficial level, the case looks into...

The growth of the infrastructure sector in India has been relatively slow compared to that of the industrial and manufacturing sectors. Energy shortage, inadequate transportation network, and insufficient water supply system have caused a bottleneck in the country’s economic growth. The...

The typical project appraisal methods are based on Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)-based measures like Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR). However, they exhibit weaknesses in dealing with uncertainty, complexity and flexibility. In today’s business environment, traditional...

Projects retain a crucial role in international aid. There are standard ways to evaluate them in terms of predefined objectives and the logic of connections for reaching those objectives. Projects typically face sustainability problems once the inducement of external resources is over, for their...

This monograph discuss about measuring project variables as well as parameters of various project especially in Green Growth through inclusive growth. We elucidate the link between financial modeling, economic modeling and poverty alleviation in Indonesia. We explicitly perform how the model is...

Transport infrastructure development project plays a vital role in improving accessibility which has dynamic effects on the urban and regional economy and increases property value. The research aims to assess the land price variability in control and catchment areas before and after the Railway...

Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information-and-communication-technologies-for-development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc.Yet we have very little...