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Indian Railways is one of the world’s largest public sector organizations. Its network, traffic, organization and extent of vertical integration are gigantic. This paper undertakes a critical examination of its procurement process to understand the procedures and institutional mechanisms which...
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Long distance coach services in Italy represent an almost unknown mode of transport to the general public, often … specifically focused on long distance coach transport in Italy, carried out by the authors (Beria et al., 2012). We provide policy …. According to our estimations, that are not present in the Italian transport statistics, the industry supplied more than 90m bus …
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Connectivity in developing countries has traditionally been viewed in terms of investment in transport and …
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. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the short-term business environment of transport operators and trading companies has been … extent by the increases in frictional costs. Differences across products are due to varying ratios of transport and insurance … costs to goods-value, divergences in prevailing transport modes, and differing roles in the production process. For example …
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The freight rail deregulation have been considered, for long time, as a factor of security and safety reduction. This article means to show that, for the moment, we can't consider french freight rail deregulation have a significative impact on security and safety. So, I look if it's possible...
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find that the rules for leisure transport are exactly the same as in a conventional CBA that includes the marginal cost of … public funds. For business travel and commuting we find new rules as a result of the assumption that transport costs have the …
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We examine the implications of search unemployment for the evaluation of a transport in-vestment in a conventional cost … benefit analysis (CBA) assuming perfect competition. Lower transport costs induces search over a larger area and longer …-creased transport. The search imperfection drives a wedge between the marginal product of labour and the wage, such that the final …
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The research focuses on how present Balkan political elites declare that they would adhere to the values of integrating and globalizing Europe in their Balkan policy, while de facto employing the ‘arsenal’ of geopolitical egoistic planning. I also argue that narrow geopolitical planning in...
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We generate an original dataset on bribe payments at two competing ports in Southern Africa that allows us to take an unusually close look at the relationship between bureaucratic organization, bribe-setting behavior and the costs corruption imposes on users of public services. We find that the...
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take recourse in the transport spot market. Demand and price on the spot market are dependent exogenous stochastic …
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