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South Sudan's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective
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Year: 2011 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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Newly independent South Sudan faces a challenge in making its own way in infrastructure development. Despite earning USD 6 billion in oil revenues since 2005, South Sudan's spending has not been proportional to its income, but rather has lagged behind North Sudan's development of infrastructure and social support. South Sudan benefitted from strong donor support during 2004-10, the interim period defined by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. It focused on reestablishing regional transport links and access to seaports as well as rehabilitating its ports, airstrips, and single rail line. South Sudan also successfully liberalized the ICT sector. Nonetheless, the new country's infrastructure remains in such a dismal state that it is difficult to pinpoint a single most pressing challenge. The transport sector accounts for half of the country's spending needs, and water and sanitation account for a further quarter of the total. But so many improvements are needed that the nation cannot realistically catch up with its neighbors within 10 years, or even longer. South Sudan's annual infrastructure funding gap is USD 879 million per year. Given that the country's total needs are beyond its reach in the medium term, it must adopt firm priorities for its infrastructure spending. It also must attract international and private-sector investment and look to lower-cost technologies to begin to close its funding gap. Although South Sudan loses relatively little to inefficiencies, redressing those inefficiencies will be vital to creating solid institutions to attract new investors and get the most out of their investments.


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London underground : a cultural geography
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ISBN: 1781389314 1846318017 1846318599 1781387087 9781846318016 9781846318597 9781781389317 Year: 2013 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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In London Underground: A Cultural Geography, David Ashford sets out to chart one of the strangest, as well as the most familiar, spaces in London. This book provides a theoretical account of the evolution of an archetypal modern environment. The first to complete that slow process of estrangement from the natural topography initiated by the Industrial Revolution, the London Underground is shown to be what French anthropologist Marc Augé has termed non-lieu - a non-place, like motorway, supermarket or airport lounge, compelled to interpret its relationship to the invisible landscape it traverses through the medium of signs and maps. Surveying an unusually wide variety of material, ranging from the Victorian triple-decker novel, to Modernist art and architecture, to Pop music and graffiti, this cultural geography suggests that the tube-network is a transitional form, linking the alienated spaces of Victorian England to the virtual spaces of our contemporary consumer-capitalism. Recounting the history of the production of this new space, and of the struggles it has generated, London Underground is nothing less than the story of how people have attempted to make a home in the psychopathological spaces of the modern world.


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Public transport international
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ISSN: 1016796X Year: 1990 Publisher: Bruxelles Union internationale des transports publics

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Openbaar vervoer --- Périodiques --- Tijdschriften --- Transports publics --- 656.072 --- Current periodicals --- Revue périodique --- Transport public --- Transport régional --- Tijdschrift --- Regionaal vervoer --- Periodicals --- регионален транспорт --- transport regionalny --- trasporto regionale --- регионални превоз --- regionális közlekedés --- regionaal vervoer --- trasport reġjonali --- reģionālais transports --- transport regional --- transport rajonal --- regioninis transportas --- regionalni promet --- περιφερειακές μεταφορές --- piirkondlik transport --- regionální doprava --- regionaler Transport --- alueellinen liikenne --- transporte regional --- regionálna doprava --- regional transport --- regionalni prijevoz --- traffico regionale --- regionális szállítás --- регионален превоз --- mezzi ta’ trasport pubbliku --- transport środkami publicznymi --- tömegközlekedési eszközzel történő szállítás --- sabiedriskie transportlīdzekļi --- openbaar vervoer --- means of public conveyance --- средство за јавен превоз --- trasporto pubblico --- ühistranspordivahendid --- kollektivtrafik --- mijloace de transport public --- средства јавног превоза --- mjet transporti publik --- julkinen liikenne --- transporte público --- prevoz z javnimi prevoznimi sredstvi --- prostriedky verejnej dopravy --- offentlig transport --- viešojo transporto priemonės --- sredstvo javnoga prijevoza --- Beförderung mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln --- veřejná doprava --- превоз с обществени превозни средства --- δημόσιες μεταφορές --- öffentliches Verkehrsmittel --- žičara --- allmänna kommunikationer --- trasporto pubblico ad accesso continuo --- uspinjača --- javno prometalo --- perioodiline väljaanne --- periodická publikácia --- сериски публикации --- tidskrift --- периодично издание --- periodinis leidinys --- periodikum --- rivista periodica --- kausijulkaisu --- serial publication --- periodische Veröffentlichung --- publicații periodice --- περιοδική επιθεώρηση --- publicação periódica --- publicación seriada --- periodična publikacija --- periodika --- folyóirat --- publikim periodik --- periodisks izdevums --- wydawnictwo periodyczne --- tidsskrift --- периодично издање --- tijdschrift --- pubblikazzjoni perjodika --- periodicum --- periodiek --- revue périodique --- publicación periódica --- επιθεώρηση --- издание во продолженија --- периодична објава --- periodical publication --- serijska publikacija --- botim periodik --- сериско издание --- seriāls izdevums --- périodique --- periodico --- publikim në seri --- rivista mensile --- serijinis leidinys --- mensile --- pubblicazione periodica --- publicații seriale --- периодично списание --- periodisk tidskrift --- měsíčník --- perioodikaväljaanne --- revista --- series --- časopis --- periódico --- publicación en serie --- serie --- periodice --- periodical --- týdeník --- nepravé periodikum --- jadaväljaanne --- občasník --- Periodikum --- aikakauslehti --- serials --- периодична публикација --- фељтон --- περιοδικό --- iompar réigiúnach --- modh iompair phoiblí --- sraitheachán --- Transport régional --- Revue périodique

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