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South Africa's freight transport involvement options in Sub-Saharan Africa : declining infrastructure and regulatory constraints
De Bod, Anneke - 2008
Although global changes like political security, depletion of natural resources,energy supply and global warming are affecting all continents; Africa strugglethe most to cope with these changes. This is due to the many historicalimpediments that Africa still has to overcome. Examples of these...
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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Wachstumsmotor? - Eine Empirische Analyse am Beispiel Lateinamerikas
Hinrichs, Cord - 2005
kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern … aufgeworfen, wie die Interaktion zwischen DI und inländischem Wirtschaftswachstum zu sehen ist. Auch wenn in der theoretischen als … auch empirischen Literatur signifikante Belege für eine Verbindung zwischen DI und Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden sind, so …
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Annual Hard Frosts and Economic Growth
Zuo, Xinjuan - 2005
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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Border Wars: Tax Revenues, Annexation, and Urban Growth in Phoenix
Heim, Carol E. - 2006
Phoenix and neighboring municipalities, like many in the South and West, pursued a growth strategy based on annexation in the decades after World War II. This paper explores the link between annexation and competition for tax revenues. After discussing arguments for annexation, it traces the...
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15.021J / 11.433J Real Estate Economics, Spring 2004
Wheaton, William C. - 2004
This course, offered by the MIT Center for Real Estate, focuses on developing an understanding of the macroeconomic factors that shape and influence markets for real property. We will develop the theory of land markets and locational choice. The material covered includes studies of changing...
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The appraisal of transport infrastructure projects in the municipal sphere of government in South Africa, with reference to the city of Tshwane
Schutte, Ignatius Christiaan - 2010
The annual budget cycle in urban road/transport authorities by implication requires transport infrastructure projects to be ranked in terms of their relative value, to enable project selection by starting from the most deserving proposal. This follows from the fact that the total cost of...
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Strategic planning to protect critical infrastructure systems
Withanaarachchi, B; Setunge, S; Bajwa, S - 2010
This paper examines the protection of Critical Infrastructure (CI) within transport networks from vulnerabilities by investigating the impact of disasters such as bushfires, hurricanes and earthquakes. Damage to transport infrastructure creates a cascading effect on other critical infrastructure...
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Modelling spatial economic effects of transport infrastructure policies : a computable general equilibrium approach
Artem Korzhenevych - 2010
The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to suggest and operationalise several important extensions and improvements in the methodology used to evaluate regional economic effects of the large-scale transport infrastructure and pricing policies. The main contributions are divided into the static...
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