Part I Sustainability in Infrastructure Development -- Chapter 1. Resilient Off-Grid Solar PV Power Supply for Rural Communities -- Chapter 2. Alternative Dispute Resolution in Kenya -- Chapter 3. Engineering Skills Development Through Mega Construction Projects (MCPs) -- Chapter 4. A Conceptual...

Part I Transforming Infrastructure Development -- 1. Corporate Governance in South Africa: A Comparative Aspect -- 2. Hi-Tech Development of Modern Africa: Opportunities and Barriers -- 3. Information Society, Telecommunication Infrastructure, and Digital Entrepreneurship in Modern Africa -- 4....

Klappentext: This edited volume explores and dissects Africa's economic growth and sustainable development using an optimal conceptual model of the progressive continent's development up to and until 2030. Africa is studied not against the background of developed (OECD) and leading developing...

Development of green infrastructures (renewable energy plants and transmission networks) is urgently needed if significant reductions of greenhouse emissions are to be accomplished in the next few decades. But the huge financial investments required by these infrastructures will not be...

Investment decisions are usually affected by what firms perceive as government supply constraints: when a firm considers whether to increase its capital stock it takes into account possible constraints due to the lack of public productive services. Introducing this consideration in a simple...

Numerous studies have explored IT expenditure benefits and the options such expenditure creates. These options are seen as intangible assets created by investing in IT (Kholi et al, 2012). Benefits of IT Expenditure (BITE) are assessed by the perception of senior executives. Perceptions of BITE...