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Green infrastructure finance : framework report
La Rocca, Roberto - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393743
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Auctions with endogenous participation and quality thresholds : evidence from oda infrastructure procurement
Estache, Antonio - 2009
"Infrastructure projects are often technically complicated and highly customized. Therefore, procurement competition … tends to be limited. Competition is the single most important factor toward auction efficiency and anti-corruption. However …, the degree of competition realized is closely related to bidders' entry decision and the auctioneer's decision on how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394147
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Trends in household coverage of modern infrastructure services in Africa
Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh (contributor) - 2009
"Household surveys have long been used to estimate poverty and inequality trends, as well as trends in education and health indicators, but they have not been used to the same extent to assess trends in the access to or coverage of modern infrastructure services. In this paper, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394174
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Making sense of Africa's infrastructure endowment : a benchmarking approach
Yepes, Tito - 2009
"The paper's objective is to explain factors underlying Africa's weak infrastructure endowment and to identify suitable infrastructure goals for the region based on benchmarking against international peers. The authors use a dataset covering the stocks of key infrastructure-including information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394206
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Infrastructure and growth in Africa
Calderón, César - 2009
"The goal of the paper is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the impact of infrastructure development on growth in African countries. Based on econometric estimates for a sample of 136 countries from 1960-2005, the authors evaluate the impact on per capita growth of faster accumulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394208
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Infrastructure and growth in South Africa : direct and indirect productivity impacts of 19 infrastructure measures
Fedderke, Johannes W. - 2006
"Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous (countervailing signs) results with little robustness. A number of explanations of the contradictory findings have been proposed. These range from the crowd-out of private by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522073
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International benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance
Bogetic, Željko - 2006
"The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensive benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance in four major sectors--electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication technology, and transportation--against the relevant group of comparator countries using a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522230
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International benchmarking of Lesotho's infrastructure performance
Bogetic, Željko - 2006
"The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors--electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication technology, and road transportation--against the relevant group of comparator countries using a new World Bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522235
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Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects : problems, causes, cures
Flyvbjerg, Bent - 2005
likelihood that it is their projects, and not the competition's, that gain approval and funding. This results in the "survival of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522419