ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The traditional form of delivering infrastructure and services by government is fraught with problems. These include cost overruns, time overruns and neglect of maintenance resulting in dilapidated and aged infrastructure. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are emerging as an...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study looks at South Africa and Brazil in a comparative sense to determine how infrastructure development and investment since 1970 to 2002 impacted not only onaggregate GDP but also on social indicators such as gross national income (GNI), infantmortality and literacy...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Infrastructure and related services are crucial for facilitating economic activities, creatingemployment opportunities and generating economic growth. The African continent has ahuge infrastructure gap estimated by the World Bank at US$75 billion per annum.However, the current...

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...

ENGLISH SUMMARY: Infrastructure has been hailed as a fundamental link between markets and other development sectors of the economy. For over a long time the delivery of infrastructure in Africa has been the domain of the public sector. However, because of the continued budgetary constraints,...

Businesses today face intense international competition, a heightened pace of development and shortened product life cycles. As a result, many researchers recommend firms collaborate and partner with other firms to succeed. With over a decade of research examining alliances and inter-firm...

Mixed findings emerge from this ex post Cost-Benefit Analysis of a major water investment programme in Ireland. Water supply and conservation investments, where most benefits were internal, generally proved worthwhile. Wastewater investments could not be analysed fully due to lack of...

Between 1999 and 2007, a series of infrastructure improvements were completed at the Port of Brunswick, Georgia, in order to increase cargo capacity at the port. This paper looks at the port for indications of economic development generated through this infrastructure investment. Infrastructure...

Pastaraisiais metais visame pasaulyje viešojo ir privataus sektoriaus kooperavimasis stiprėja, siekiant plėtoti plataus spektro ekonomines priemones. Tokį viešosios ir privačios partnerystės (VPP) populiarumą paskatino ne tik investicijų, skirtų infrastruktūros plėtrai, stoka, bet ir...

The study investigates the extent of distributional impacts of labour-intensiveroad projects using a geographical approach. The aim is to evaluateinfrastructural effectiveness. The central premise is that the interface betweenroad investment and economic development has broad implications that...