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Building Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure in Developing Countries contains the papers presented at the International Conference on Development and Investment in Infrastructure (DII-2022). The contributions cover a wide range of topics related to infrastructure issues on the African continent.
City planning --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Smart cities
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Investment in infrastructure is essential for promoting economic growth, and while countries in Asia have enjoyed higher rates of gross domestic product growth in recent years, the region remains severely deficient in the scale and quality of sustainable infrastructure. Moreover, population growth and climate change continue to put increasing pressure on the need for strategic and farsighted development, calling for policy makers to reevaluate infrastructure governance to ensure sustainable economic growth. Currently, in developing Asia, most investment in infrastructure comes from the public sector. However, with growing fiscal deficits and other budgetary constraints, it is essential to develop alternative sources of investment for infrastructure projects. This presents opportunities to tap into the private sector, which can play an instrumental role in minimizing the funding gap through the development of stronger, more transparent public-private partnerships (PPPs) and incentivizing sustainable infrastructure investment.This book provides a scholarly discussion on the importance of PPPs and approaches to unlock private participation in infrastructure investment based on lessons from across Asia. Among the proposed schemes are government tax incentives, development-based land value capture strategy under PPP land pooling, Viability Gap Funds, Project Development Facilities, and other guarantees. The book aims to assess the impacts and future of sustainable infrastructure investments and examines the role of governments in mobilizing financial resources and new models for unlocking private investment in sustainable infrastructure.This book consists of fifteen original chapters on the experiences of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) and a few other cases for promoting private investment in sustainable infrastructure. The fact that not much has been published previously on this theme makes this book a welcome and timely addition to the much needed knowledge on this subject. 'The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylor fran cis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non- Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 license.'
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To inform debate on a new transportation bill being considered, the authors review the literature on the economic outcomes of highway infrastructure spending, which constitutes the largest share of federal spending on transportation infrastructure. They highlight the connections between highway spending and the economy and then analyze the literature to trace the effects of highway infrastructure on productivity, output, and employment.
Infrastructure (Economics) -- United States. --- Infrastructure (Economics). --- Roads -- United States. --- Roads. --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Roads --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- Economic History --- Economic aspects. --- E-books
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Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Economic History
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Les infrastructures sont partout. Comme leur nom l'indique, elles supportent nos vies quotidiennes, ce sont des ponts, des aéroports, des réseaux d'eau ou d'électricité, mais aussi des câbles sous-marins et des fermes de serveurs informatiques. Alors que l'on constate, en général, un clivage prononcé entre les chercheurs qui s'intéressent aux nouvelles infrastructures (autour du numérique) et les « fidèles » des infrastructures liées de prime abord à la première et la seconde révolution industrielle, les auteurs de cet ouvrage s'inscrivent indistinctement dans les deux groupes. Certains d'entre eux s'essaient même à explorer ce qu'il advient des infrastructures classiques à l'ère du numérique. Ce rapprochement permet d'approfondir ce qu'il y a de commun dans des infrastructures variées et de discuter de la pertinence de l'extension de la notion à d'autres domaines. Il permet également de souligner certaines évolutions partagées en particulier autour de l'affirmation de l'individu et de l'émergence d'une dimension politique jusque-là souvent enterrée, comme le sont bien des réseaux d'infrastructures.
Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital
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Warum lohnt es sich über Infrastrukturen nachzudenken? Gegenwärtig erleben wir eine schier atemberaubende Zunahme und Verdichtung an infrastrukturell geleisteten Verknüpfungen rund um den Planeten. Gleichzeitig sind Infrastrukturen selbst auch Gegenstand sozial- und geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschungsarbeiten geworden. Dabei sind Infrastrukturen - so die leitende These dieses Essays - Instrumente und Medien der Verräumlichung. Why reflect on infrastructures? Today, we are experiencing a breathtaking expansion and intensification of infrastructural interconnections around the globe. At the same time, infrastructures have also become the explicit subject of research studies in the social sciences and humanities. Accordingly, the thesis of this essay is that infrastructures are the instruments and media of Verräumlichung (spatialization).
Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital
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Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital
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Today's globalised society highly depends on reliable infrastructure systems like transportation and telecommunication. This doctoral dissertation presents a methodology to identify critical road infrastructures. Critical road sections are those whose failure would entail large costs to society. The dissertation also accounts for aspects like multiple road disruptions and probabilities of failure. Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany serves as a case study area.
Critical Infrastructure --- Economic Loss --- Discrete Choice Theory --- Risk --- Transport Modelling
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Aujourd’hui, la quasi-totalité des logiciels couramment utilisés sont tributaires de code dit « open source », créé et maintenu par des communautés composées de développeurs et d’autres talents. Ce code peut être repris, modifié et utilisé par n’importe qui, entreprise ou particulier, pour créer ses propres logiciels. Partagé, ce code constitue ainsi l’infrastructure numérique de la société d’aujourd’hui… dont les fondations menacent cependant de céder sous la demande ! En effet, dans un monde régi par la technologie, qu’il s’agisse des entreprises du Fortune 500, du Gouvernement, des grandes entreprises de logiciel ou des startups, nous sommes en train d’accroître la charge de ceux qui produisent et entretiennent cette infrastructure partagée. Or, comme ces communautés sont assez discrètes, les utilisateurs ont mis longtemps à en prendre conscience. Tout comme l’infrastructure matérielle, l’infrastructure numérique nécessite pourtant une maintenance et un entretien réguliers. Face à une demande sans précédent, si nous ne soutenons pas cette infrastructure, les conséquences seront nombreuses. L’entretien de notre infrastructure numérique est une idée nouvelle pour beaucoup, et les problèmes que cela pose sont mal cernés. Dans cet ouvrage, Nadia Eghbal met au jour les défis uniques auxquels sont confrontées les infrastructures numériques et comment l’on peut œuvrer pour les relever. Our modern society runs on software. But the tools we use to build software are buckling under increased demand. Nearly all software today relies on free, public code, written and maintained by communities of developers and other talent. This code can be used by anyone — from companies to individuals — to write their own software. Shared, public code makes up the digital infrastructure of our society today. Everybody relies on shared code to write software, including Fortune 500 companies, government, major software companies and startups. In a world driven by technology, we are…
Humanities, Multidisciplinary --- open source --- infrastructures numériques --- web --- digital infrastructure
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This publication provides a comprehensive compendium of the current state of Germany's research infrastructure in the social, economic, and behavioural sciences. In addition, the book presents detailed discussions of the current needs of empirical researchers in these fields as well as of opportunities for future development.
Social research & statistics --- economic sciences --- research infrastructure --- social sciences
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