Search Results - subject_exact:"Public construction project"

Beyond the wage channel : climate-smart public works programmes and household resilience in Malawi

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Burchi, Francesco; Schubert, Sophia - 2026

One of the main arguments for implementing public works programmes (PWPs) instead of other social protection schemes such as cash transfers is that the assets created through these programmes themselves can generate medium- to long-term benefits. This is particularly important as the costs for...

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From Samurai to engineer-manager : the case study of Ōhara Junnosuke (1859-96), mining specialist in Meiji Japan

Pauer, Erich - 2026

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Do public works programs have sustained impacts? : a review of experimental studies from LMICs

Bagga, Aanchal; Holmlund, Marcus; Khan, Nausheen; Mani, … - 2026

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Enhancing public works programmes : sustainable impact through participatory asset creation and digitalisation

Burchi, Francesco; Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu - 2025

Public works programmes (PWPs) are widely used social protection instruments in low- and middle-income countries. Participants carry out temporary, labour-intensive works in exchange for cash or in-kind compensation. The available empirical evidence indicates that these programmes are usually...

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Overview Brief on Innovations in Public Works : Rethinking Public Works for Jobs and Skills in a Changing World

Bucik, Marko; Weber, Michael - 2025

Public works programs (PWPs) have long been a common choice to protect people in need by providing temporary jobs and income. They promise more than a paycheck: They offer dignity, visible community investments, and the prospect of long-term progress. But today’s world is changing fast....

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Digital Public Works : Leveraging Digital Technology to Modernize the Design and Delivery of Public Works

Stöterau, Jonathan; Bucik, Marko - 2025

Rapid advances in digital technology are transforming how people learn, work and access public services. At the same time, digital skills and work experience are increasingly important for economic inclusion and jobs. This shift presents both opportunities and challenges for social protection...

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Green Public Works : Leveraging Public Works to Address Climate and Environmental Challenges

Costella, Cecilia; Okamura, Yuko; Shalash, Nada; … - 2025

As climate and environmental challenges increasingly threaten livelihoods worldwide, some countries are turning to public works programs (PWPs) to confront them. This has given rise to “green public works”—PWPs that combine social assistance with environmental and climate objectives, such...

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Gender-Smart Public Works Programs : Making Public Works More Inclusive

Noy, Itay; Heinemann, Alessandra - 2025

Women often face multiple, gender-specific barriers, such as mobility constraints, and care obligations, that prevent them from accessing income-generating activities, including public works programs (PWPs). A range of “gender-smart” design features can be incorporated in PWPs to enhance...

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Public Works That Provide Care Services : Enhancing Women's Economic Opportunities, Boosting Human Capital, and Building Skills for the Care Economy

Noy, Itay; Heinemann, Alessandra - 2025

Women around the world face a heavier care burden than men, restricting their participation in the labor force. At the same time, the shortage of quality, accessible, and affordable care services undermines human development and well-being. Limited investment in early childhood care and...

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Innovations in Public Works : Rethinking Public Works for Jobs and Skills in a Changing World

2025

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Women at work : evidence from a randomized experiment in urban Djibouti

Devoto, Florencia; Galasso, Emanuela; Beegle, Kathleen; … - 2025

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The effect of competition on corruption : evidence from contractors' internal records

Shahid, Aamer; Litschig, Stephan - 2024

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Are cash-for-work programmes good for local economic growth? : the case of donor-funded public works for refugees and nationals in Jordan

Loewe, Markus; Zintl, Tina - 2024

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Contesting the public works domain : examining the factors affecting presence and success of SMES in public procurement

Nemec, Peter - 2024

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Can social assistance reduce violent conflict and civil unrest? : evidence from a large-scale public works programme in Ethiopia

Hirvonen, Kalle; Machado, Elia; Simons, Andrew M. - 2024

We assess how one of the largest public works programmes in the world-Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)-affected violent conflict and civil unrest. Using difference-in-differences methods and linking administrative and geocoded conflict event data, we find that the PSNP did not...

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Securing food, building livelihoods? : a 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

Hoddinott, John; Berhane, Guush; Gilligan, Daniel Orth; … - 2024

We assess the impact of a large-scale social protection intervention, Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), over a 15-year period. We find that the PSNP had a positive impact on food security but inconsistent impacts on assets. There were positive impacts on fertilizer use,...

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Do public works investments in watershed rehabilitation and small-scale irrigation improve nutrition and resilience? : evidence from Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Interventions in support of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program

Balana, Bedru Babulo; Mekonnen, Dawit; Arega, Tiruwork; … - 2024

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Do public works programs foster climate resilience? : conceptual framework and review of empirical evidence

Aurino, Elisabetta; Burchi, Francesco; Sakketa, … - 2024 - Version July 2024

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Timely construction : the effect of project labor agreements on time to completion for public works construction in Sacramento County, California

Petrucci, Larissa; Hinkel, Matthew; Dunn, Grace - 2026

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Administrative litigation and public procurement outcomes : evidence from Italy

Maltese, Enza; Rovigatti, Gabriele - 2026

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Impact of budget participation and leadership style on managerial performance with organizational commitment as intervening variable

Riyadh, Hosam Alden; Nugraheni, Fadhlilah Rahmaningtyas; … - 2023

This study aims to scrutinize the impact of the independent variables, i.e., budget participation and leadership style, on managerial performance mediated by organizational commitment. For this reason, the quantitative research approach was utilized to examine the hypotheses, and such an...

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Do local court inefficiencies delay public works? : Evidence from Italian municipalities

Decarolis, Francesco - 2023

Public procurement accounts for around 12% of global GDP and 63% of expenditures are managed by subnational governments across OECD countries. In Italy, municipalities can impose penalties on contractors for breaches of contract, for example delays in delivery, often leading to contractors suing...

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Urban public works in spatial equilibrium : experimental evidence from Ethiopia

Franklin, Simon; Imbert, Clément; Abebe, Girum; Mejía … - 2024

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Urban public works in spatial equilibrium : experimental evidence from Ethiopia

Franklin, Simon; Imbertand, Clément; Abebe, Girum; … - 2023

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Procurement managers and effective tendering: the case of italian public works contracts

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Maltese, Enza; Orlando, Tommaso; … - 2025

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Procurement managers and effective tendering : the case of Italian public works contracts

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Maltese, Enza; Orlando, Tommaso; … - 2023

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How 'One-Size-Fits-All' Public Works Contract Does It Better? An Assessment of Infrastructure Provision in Italy

Finocchiaro Castro, Massimo; Guccio, Calogero; Rizzo, Ilde - 2023

Public infrastructure procurement is crucial as a prerequisite for public and private investments and for economic and social capital growth. However, low performance in execution severely hinders infrastructure provision and benefits delivery. One of the most sensitive phases in public...

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Effect of tender evaluation process on performance of public construction projects

Matto, Mordecai C.; Magali, Joseph - 2025

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Spilling over : the benefits of public works projects for groundwater in India

Behrer, A. Patrick; Pullabhotla, Hemant - 2025

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Fiscal decentralization : the effect of transfers on public works in Brazil

Santos, Joebson Maurilio Alves dos; Menezes, Tatiane; … - 2025

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Administrative capacity in public procurement : evidence and mechanisms

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Mocetti, Sauro; Rovigatti, Gabriele - 2025

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Does gender tagging public works increase women's participation? : experimental evidence from Haiti, Kenya, and Rwanda

Balantrapu, Tanay; Christian, Paul; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; … - 2025

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Aggregate effects from public works : evidence from India

Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2022

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Aggregate effects from public works: evidence from India

Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2020

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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India

Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2022

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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India

Cook, C. Justin - 2020

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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India

Cook, C. Justin - 2020

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Characteristics of public workers

Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2022

In our study, we set out to present the characteristics of public workers between 2011 and 2019 based on the comprehensive and anonymous administrative database of the Hungarian State Treasury (MÁK). During the years under review, altogether 676 thousand people were involved in the programme....

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Social protection and foundational cognitive skills during adolescence : evidence from a large public works programme

Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022

Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to provide better infrastructure to local communities. While PWPs do not target children directly, the...

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Social protection and foundational cognitive skills during adolescence : evidence from a large public works programme

Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022

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Public works programmes and cooperation for the common good : evidence from Malawi

Beierl, Stefan; Dodlova, Marina - 2022

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Public work and private violence

Kjelsrud, Anders; Sjurgard, Kristin Vikan - 2022

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Public work and private violence

Kjelsrud, Anders; Sjurgard, Kristin Vikan - 2020

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Safety nets as a means of tackling chronic food insecurity in rural southern Ethiopia : what is constraining programme contributions?

Dejene, Melisew; Cochrane, Logan - 2022

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Does Greater Discretion Improve the Performance in the Execution of Public Works? Evidence from the Reform of Discretionary Thresholds in Italy

Finocchiaro Castro, Massimo; Guccio, Calogero - 2022

In this work, adopting a semi-parametric approach and a quasi-experiment setting, we empirically assess the effects of a reform of public procurement regulation in Italy, approved in 2011, that increased the discretion of bureaucrats in selecting the procurer. To this end, employing a large...

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The Implementation of Public Works in Italy : Institutional Features and Regional Characteristics

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Orlando, Tommaso; Rovigatti, Gabriele - 2022

Project duration is an important metric in the assessment of public works procurement and consists of the time taken to complete the three major sub-phases (design, awarding and execution). The overall duration may be influenced by various factors such as project characteristics, local market...

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A multicriteria model to evaluate tenders for green procurement of public works

Tavares, Luís Valadares; Ferreira, José Antunes; … - 2022

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A job trial subsidy for youth : cheap labour or a screening device?

Csillag, Márton; Munkácsy, Balázs; Krekó, Judit; … - 2022

This paper evaluates a 90-day hiring subsidy designed for young jobseekers aged below 25, introduced in Hungary in 2015 as part of the Youth Guarantee programme. The subsidy covers the total wage cost with no obligation to retain the new hire when the subsidy expires. The analysis is based on...

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Unorthodoxy in Hungary : an illiberal success story?

Csaba, László - 2022

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Entwicklung öffentlicher Immobilien nach Lean-Prinzipien : ein Prozessmodell zur Abwicklung öffentlicher Hochbaumaßnahmen

Bernat, Georg - 2024 - 1. Auflage

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Evaluation of public works program in the Czech Republic

Hora, Ondřej; Suchanec, Miroslav - 2024

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Public procurement and supplier job creation : insights from auctions

Srhoj, Stjepan; Dragojević, Melko - 2024

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Assessing the impact of early supplier involvement on public works procurement

Osei-Appiah, Vincent Kwame; Kissi, Ernest; Karikari, … - 2024

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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh : Organizational Gap Analysis- Case Study on Ministry of Housing and Public Works

Rahman, Moshiur - 2021

The lack of financial support and proper research in housing has been identified by the Government of Bangladesh as one of the major problems in improving sustainable housing condition of lower and middle-income families in Bangladesh. Unplanned urbanization in the city area leads to poor living...

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Municipal construction spending : an empirical examination

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1993

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Municipal Construction Spending : an Empirical Examination

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

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Municipal Construction Spending : An Empirical Examination

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1989

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Development of models of technology transfer for public works

Kharytonov, Yuriy; Slobodian, Serhii; Podaienko, Marina - 2021

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Kenya's social policy response to Covid-19 : tax cuts, cash transfers and public works

Ouma, Marion - 2021

This report summarises and analyses Kenya’s social policy response to Covid-19. Following the global outbreak of the pandemic, Kenya’s parliament passed several economic and social laws. Tax law amendments aimed to cushion citizens and businesses from the negative effects of the disease by...

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Digging the Dirt at Public Expense : Governance in the Building of the Erie Canal and Other Public Works

Engerman, Stanley L.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021

The Erie Canal was a mammoth public works project undertaken largely because the scope of the investment was beyond what a private firm could manage during the early 19th century. As with most public works, there were ample opportunities for public officials to realize private gains from the...

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Digging the Dirt at Public Expense : Governance in the Building of the Erie Canal and Other Public Works

Engerman, Stanley - 2004

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