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Railway Budget 2012
Kumar, Rohit - eSocialSciences - 2012
The Minister of Railways, Dinesh Trivedi, presented the Railways Budget 2012 to Parliament on 14th March. In his address, he commented on the performance of Railways in 2011-12 and laid out his budget proposals for 2012-13. [PRS]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/pages/railwaybudget-152].
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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 …
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THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AS A TOOL FOR IMPLEMENTING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Bogheanu, Marilena - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 1 (2013) 41, pp. 174-185
varied benefits: PPP enables public authorities to undertake projects that they cannot implement on their own expenses and … local authorities as beneficiaries of such projects in an unitary strategic planning framework. The research was based on … tourism. The result is the proposal to include a special section dedicated to PPP projects in a strategic planning framework …
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Delays and Cost Overruns in Infrastructure Projects -- An Enquiry into Extents, Causes and Remedies
Singh, Ram - Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics - 2009
Media reports abound on instances of prolonged delays and excessive cost overruns in infrastructure projects. Only a …-researched. This study investigates the various issues related to delays and cost overruns in publically funded infrastructure projects … and implementation of infrastructure projects? The study is based on, by far, the largest dataset of 894 projects from …
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Inequality, Coalitions and Collective Action
Bardhan, Pranab; Singh, Nirvikar - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2004
In a model where cooperation is beneficial, but subject to cheating, and is supported by trigger strategy punishments in a repeated game, we explore the relationship between the nature of cooperation (size and composition of coalitions) and underlying inequality in the distribution of private...
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Inequality, Coalitions and Collective Action
Bardhan, Pranab; Singh, Nirvikar - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2004
In a model where cooperation is beneficial, but subject to cheating, and is supported by trigger strategy punishments in a repeated game, we explore the relationship between the nature of cooperation (size and composition of coalitions) and underlying inequality in the distribution of private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843012
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Networks of regulatory agencies as regional public goods: Improving infrastructure performance
Berg, Sanford; Horrall, Jacqueline - In: The Review of International Organizations 3 (2008) 2, pp. 179-200
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Maximizing the value for money of PPP arrangements through flexibility: An application to airports
Martins, José; Marques, Rui Cunha; Cruz, Carlos Oliveira - In: Journal of Air Transport Management 39 (2014) C, pp. 72-80
from infrastructure projects. The principle is that the project should have the necessary flexibility to adapt to future …The economic crisis in most developed countries is fostering the search for new models for infrastructure planning and … changes, i.e., at the design stage it is necessary to incorporate flexible options that would allow the infrastructure and …
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School Reform and Construction in the Province of Rovigo, Italy
Gasparetto, Valerio - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2001
The legislative framework of the Italian education system has changed radically over the past five years. After decades of announcing, discussing, proposing and experimenting with reform, the school of tomorrow is rapidly becoming a reality. Is it possible today to construct school buildings...
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Real options analysis and the value of flexibility for (wet) infrastructure
Bos, Frits; Zwaneveld, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The basic idea of real options analysis is that flexibility has value. Increasing the flexibility of investmentprojects … may therefore substantially increase their value. Ignoring the value of flexibility implies that erroneously … investmentprojects without much flexibility may be preferred to more flexible alternatives. This paper investigates how real options …
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