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This book reviews Latin America's experience with infrastructure reform over the last fifteen years. It argues that the region's infrastructure has suffered from public retrenchment and unrealistic expectations about private involvement. Poor infrastructure now hampers productivity, growth, and poverty reduction. Addressing this requires more and better spending, and acceptance that governments remain central to infrastructure provision and supervision, although the private sector still has an important role to play.

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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This book presents and analyzes the results of a comprehensive collection of data on the extent and condition of transport infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa, identifies the reasons for poor performance, and estimates future financing needs.The transport facilities of Sub-Saharan Africa were built primarily for the colonial exploitation of mineral and agricultural resources. The chief goal of road and rail networks was to link mines, plantations, and other sites for the exploitation and transformation on natural resources to ports, rather than to provide general connectivity within the regio

Economic infrastructure --- Transport. Traffic --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Infrastructure (Economics) --Africa. --- Transportation --Africa. --- Transportation --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital

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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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El presente libro reúne opiniones de especialistas, profesionales, ex-miembros de organismos reglamentarios y encargados de la formulación de políticas sobre el problema de la expansión de la conectividad en la tecnología de la información y la comunicación (TIC) en el Asia emergente. Trata principalmente de la creencia generalizada que pretende que la tecnología por sí misma -independientemente de las reformas normativas y políticas- puede mejorar el acceso a la TIC. Así, nos muestra que ciertas soluciones complejas son posibles, pero que son a la vez considerablemente menos eficaces que las

Telecommunication policy. --- Telecommunication policy --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Transportation Economics --- Business & Economics --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Telecommunication --- Telecommunication and state --- Government policy --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital

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This book provides an integrated treatment of the relationship between political economy and vocational education at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Approaching the subject from a philosophical perspective the author engages with debates about* the work-related aims of education * the moral and spiritual significance of work * the conceptualisation of political economy * high-skill economies and vocational education* the 'end of work' thesis* the relationship between education and training in vocational education * future work patterns * the education

Vocational education --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Philosophy. --- Economic aspects. --- Education, Vocational --- Vocational training --- Work experience --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Education --- Technical education --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital