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Population Density and Infrastructure Development
Review of Development Economics, 1997A model is proposed with the following features: (1) there is a publicly accessible transport technology, which is more advanced when there is more specialized labor in it; (2) a high population density facilitates the development of the transport technology; (3) an improved transport technology facilitates a finer division of labor, which in turn ...
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Comm4Dev: Communication Infrastructure for Development
2019One of the main reasons for the still observed digital divide is the lack of communication infrastructure in regions away from urban centres. As these regions are normally spread over long distances and have small populations (i.e., prospective users), operators see little business opportunities and refrain from large investments to reach these areas ...
António Sousa +3 more
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PLANNING OF INFRASTRUCTURES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 1979Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the planning of infrastructures for developing countries. A master plan for the development of the country should consider the basic infrastructures needed and consider the population growth for the future, and must accordingly put the plans of infrastructure projects.
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The Development of Infrastructure
2006Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American nations experienced an unprecedented expansion of physical infrastructure. The economies of Latin America, most of them laggards by the standards of North Atlantic economic performance, began to grow with a new-found rapidity, as investment in modern transportation increased during the late nineteenth century.
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Infrastructure in Philippine development
2007Studies linking infrastructure and development support the idea that there are large returns to infrastructure investments. This paper examines the conceptual bases for infrastructure's role and their implementation in the Philippines. Regressions show that capital stock investments have yielded insignificant effects on Philippine output from 1955-2001.
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Infrastructures for development
This chapter interrogates key debates on infrastructure development, including major investment schemes such as China's established Roads and Belt Initiative. First, it outlines why and how infrastructures have become a cornerstone of development practice and discourses.openaire +1 more source
Infrastructure Development in the Knowledge City
2006This paper presents a roadmap for establishing a semantic Web-based environment for coordinating infrastructure project development. The proposed roadmap uses semantic knowledge management and web service concepts to integrate all aspects of infrastructure project development.
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Infrastructure Development in Developing Countries
2015Physical infrastructure development projects mobilize a huge number of diversified workforce, their associates, and relatives to and from the project sites and surrounding areas from initiation of the projects to post-completion period. This chapter focuses on Nepal government's National Plan and reviews the Plan's priorities of the last 60 years ...
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The expansion of natural gas infrastructure puts energy transitions at risk
Nature Energy, 2022Franziska M Hoffart +2 more
exaly
Modeling Time-varying Reliability and Resilience of Deteriorating Infrastructure
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2022Leandro Iannacone +2 more
exaly