Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 171
Cover Image
Cost and Time Overruns in Infrastructure Projects: Extent, Causes and Remedies
Singh, Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009
Various issues related to delays and cost overruns in publically funded infrastructure projects are investigated. The study is based on, by far, the largest data-set of 850 projects across seventeen infrastructure sectors. The focus is on the causal factors behind time and cost overruns. [CDE WP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512430
Cover Image
National Policy for Senior Citizens: 2011
Justice, Ministry of Social; GOI, Empowerment - eSocialSciences - 2011
. Social deprivations and exclusion, privatization of health services and changing pattern of morbidity affect the elderly. All …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323766
Cover Image
Does Partial Privatization Improve the Environment?
Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas - eSocialSciences - 2010
) with the level of privatization, if the level of privatization is less (more) than certain level. It also shows that … partial privatization is optimal from the social welfare point of view. However, the social welfare maximizing level of … privatization damages the environment most. [WP-2010-018] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690342
Cover Image
Access to Utilities by the Poor
Komives, Kristin; Whittington, Dale; Wu, Xun - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper presents a global perspective on infrastructure coverage and the poor that many people will think they have seen before but they have not. In this paper they introduce a new data source for infrastructure statistics, the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752339
Cover Image
Book Review: Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia
Iyer, Sandhya S . - eSocialSciences - 2010
Review of 'Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia'; S. Ahmed, S. Kalegama and E. Ghani (Editors). Published by Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250196
Cover Image
Federal Budget of Pakistan-2011-12
eSocialSciences; Minister of Finance Pakistan - 2012
BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Planning & Development.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533804
Cover Image
Water Democracy: Reclaiming Public Water in Asia
FGS, Focus on the Global South - eSocialSciences - 2010
, presents examples of ongoing struggles against water privatization and commercialization as well as inspiring examples of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513088
Cover Image
Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi - eSocialSciences - 2012
within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945273
Cover Image
Towards A Competitive Economy: VAT and Customs Duty Reform
Virmani, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform, with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512441
Cover Image
Climate Change and China: Technology, Market and Beyond
Wen, Dale Jiajun - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper discusses the impacts of climate change to the environment of China and most especially to the livelihood of … Chinese people there. It analyzed the Chinese government’s position and enumerates the measures that China has taken so far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512450