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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...
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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
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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
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India's SEZ Policy
Mårtensson, Ebba; Olsson, Per - eSocialSciences - 2012
Over the last few decades India has emerged as an economic giant. In 2000 the Special Economic Zone (SEZs) policy … policy does little to strengthen India’s economy. India should consider modifying its SEZ policy or abandoning it in favor …
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Foreign Investment in Farmland No Low-hanging Fruit
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2012
A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led to increasing arable land, and when land has been limited by nature or wars, food shortages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945485
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BCIM Economic Corridor: Prospects and Challenges
Sahoo, Pravakar; Bhunia, Abirup; Dhankar, Sonali - eSocialSciences - 2014
Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China-India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945548
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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] …
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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)....
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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
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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.
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