This study is part of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world's knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. The AICD will provide a baseline ...against which future improvements in infrastructure services can be measured, making it possible to monitor the results achieved from donor support. It should also provide a more solid empirical foundation for prioritizing investments and designing policy reforms in the infrastructure sectors in Africa. The AICD is based on an unprecedented effort to collect detailed economic and technical data on the infrastructure sectors in Africa. The project has produced a series of original reports on public expenditure, spending needs, and sector performance in each of the main infrastructure sectors, including energy, information and communication technologies, irrigation, transport, and water and sanitation. The first phase of the AICD focused on 24 countries that together account for 85 percent of the gross domestic product, population, and infrastructure aid flows of Sub- Saharan Africa. Under a second phase of the project, coverage is expanding to include as many of the additional African countries as possible.
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.
Material Powers Bennett, Tony; Joyce, Patrick
2010, 20130513, 2013-05-13, 20100101
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This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made ...up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms of governance.
A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on in illustrating these concerns - from the role of territorial engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through the development of the postal system in nineteenth-century Britain to the relations between the state and road-building in contemporary Peru, for example. The colonial contexts examined are similarly varied, ranging from the role of photographic practices in the constitution of colonial power in India and the measurement of the bodies of the colonized in French colonial practices to the part played by the relations between museums and expeditions in the organization of Australian forms of colonial rule. These specific concerns are connected to major critical re-examination of the limits of the earlier formulations of cultural materialism and the logic of the 'cultural turn'.
The collection brings together a group of key international scholars whose work has played a leading role in debates in and across the fields of history, visual culture studies, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, museum studies, and literary studies.
Artykuł prezentuje, na przykładzie powiązań grupy miast pełniących rolę stolic regionów w Polsce i graniczących z nimi regionów zagranicznych, różnice pomiędzy powiązaniami infrastrukturalnymi a ...ofertą przewozową dostępną w transporcie kolejowym. Analiza poszczególnych relacji pozwala na porównanie potencjalnych i rzeczywistych możliwości realizacji podróży. Pierwsza część pracy opisuje metodę badań i wykorzystywane źródła oraz zawiera analizę potencjału infrastrukturalnego oraz rzeczywistej oferty przewozowej. Druga część przedstawia uporządkowane zestawienie parametrów połączeń realizowanych między miastami wojewódzkimi a stolicami sąsiadujących państw i regionów zagranicznych. W części trzeciej zaprezentowana została ocena i opis stopnia wykorzystania potencjału infrastrukturalnego. Całość zamyka podsumowanie, wskazujące na niską, w wielu przypadkach nieuzasadnioną uwarunkowaniami zewnętrznymi, jakość kolejowych powiązań międzynarodowych polskich regionów.
Rail passenger connections as an element of the network of international links of Polish regions
Using the example of links between a group of cities acting as regional capitals in Poland and bordering foreign regions, the article presents the differences between the infrastructure links and the transport offer available in rail transport. The analysis of individual relations allows for a comparison of potential and actual travel possibilities. The first part of the study describes the research method and sources used, and includes an analysis of the infrastructure potential and the actual transport offer. The second part presents a structured overview of the parameters of connections made between provincial cities and the capitals of neighbouring countries and foreign regions. The third part presents an assessment and description of the degree of utilisation of the infrastructure potential. The whole is concluded by a summary, indicating the low quality, in many cases unjustified by external conditions, of international railway connections of Polish regions.
Large-scale regional trade agreements have led to a gradual increase in the ease of trade development among countries. The role of geographical distance and other location factors on trade ...development among countries has gradually diminished, while the institutional conditions of different countries have gradually increased their role on trade development among countries. Given the development process of the RCEP agreement, this study uses panel data from 2011-2021 and explores the mechanism of the institutional quality of RCEP countries affecting China’s import and export trade with them based on a gravity model. In addition, this study explores the level of infrastructure in mediating the effect of the process. It is found that the institutional quality of RCEP countries has a substantial impact on China’s import and export transactions with them. In addition, infrastructure plays a fully mediating effect in the process. Therefore, bilateral trade can be promoted by upgrading the institutional environment, infrastructure development and optimising the business environment.
Mechanisms of the investment policy are a set of methods and technologies for attracting investment. Methods of the regional policy can be administrative and economic depending on market factors. An ...analysis of world and domestic practice shows that the involvement of the private sector, privatization or public-private partnership have a positive effect on the economic efficiency of ports. Regardless of the form, when attracting private capital in the transport infrastructure, the government pursues two goals - increasing the efficiency of final services and optimizing budget expenditures. The administrative and legal issues of attracting investment are relevant. Problems related to the mechanism of administrative and legal regulation of attracting investment for the development of port infrastructure are urgent in the current legislation. The solution of these problems will be useful for law enforcement activities. The article explores ways to increase the amount of investment in the port infrastructure of the Russian Federation.
Infrastructure plays a key role in fostering growth and productivity and has been linked to improved earnings, health, and education levels for the poor. Yet Latin America is currently faced with a ...dangerous combination of relatively low public and private infrastructure investment. Those investment levels must increase, and it can be done. If Latin American and Caribbean governments are to increase infrastructure investment in politically feasible ways, it is critical that they learn from experience and have an accurate idea of future impacts. This book contributes to this aim by producing what is arguably the most comprehensive privatization impact analysis in the region to date, drawing on an extremely comprehensive dataset.
The article discusses the infrastructure development of the Arctic settlements through the example of Chokurdakh village in the Allaikhovsky district of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) which is on the ...basis of a project approach linked to ongoing and planned projects for the development of territories and sectors of traditional natural resource use. The results of a sociological survey and an analysis of the actual state of infrastructure and social facilities on the basis of which projects on improvement of the living conditions of the population are proposed. It includes creating a favourable economic environment and creating new lines of economic and commercial activity in the Arctic settlements, using local natural and human resources are presented in the article.
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