economics, public sector finance and urban infrastructure …Contents: 1. Infrastructure provision -- 2. Why is infrastructure of such significance? -- 3. The evolution of … infrastructure services -- 4. The promise of public private partnerships -- 5. Implementing a partnership agenda -- 6. Risk analysis …

book addresses the struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It …Contents: 1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? -- 2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance … -- 3. Towards city statecraft -- 4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK's centralised …

pt. 1. Generic aspects of infrastructure liberalization -- pt. 2. Sector studies -- pt. 3. Country and regional studies …

Analysis of infrastructure's role in facilitating international trade and consequently regional economic integration is … of the implementation of trade-related infrastructure facilities and their impacts on poverty, trade, investment and …Infrastructure and trade in Asia : an overview / Douglas H. Brooks and Jayant Menon -- A framework for considering …

industries, for example transport, energy or telecommunications, can frequently be disappointing. The expected benefits such as … trends in infrastructure-based sectors -- 5. The EU-US 2007 Open Skies Treaty -- 6. Enron / Mark de Bruijne -- 7. American …

topics included are: demand estimates of national and regional infrastructure in transport, electricity, information and …This book addresses the prospects and challenges concerning both soft and hard infrastructure development in Asia and … provides a framework for achieving Asian connectivity through regional infrastructure cooperation towards a seamless Asia. Key …

perspective on the omnipresent infrastructure systems that support our economy and structure our way of living. This fascinating …. The expert contributors draw upon a captivating and wide-ranging set of case studies, including: Wikipedia, wind energy … waste paper, syngas infrastructure design, and e-government projects. The book discusses the feasibility of temporary …

, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and …

Tranos explores the spatiality of the Internet, its physical infrastructure, and the geographic and socio-economic factors …-regions is compared with the aviation network in order to better understand the topology of the digital infrastructure. Finally …, a causality analysis demonstrates the significant positive effect of the Internet infrastructure in the economic …

entrepreneurs in driving the market process and, in particular, in accomplishing the deregulation of the transportation, trade …1. Transport's punctuated precession in North America -- 2. Regulating and deregulating the transformations -- 3 … allocation through transport markets : origins and implications -- 6. Deregulation as economic engineering -- 7. The FAA and the …