JALALABAD, Afghanistan, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province has put 521 infrastructure projects into operation after completing the construction work, state-run media Bakhtar News Agency has reported. The projects with a cost of over 9.9 million U.S. dollars involve roads...
A questionnaire survey of large municipalities and state departments of transportation was conducted to determine the extent to which they are using BOT in their large projects, to investigate the implementation of BOT, and the reasons why some government agencies avoid using BOT. The findings ...
As a share of the country’s GDP, China’s average infrastructure spending in 2021 was nearly 10 times higher than that of the United States. Indeed, at 4.8 percent of its GDP, China's investments were significantly higher than anywhere else in the world. By compari...
In Kenya, for instance, the 480-km-long Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway financed and built by China has greatly facilitated the movement of goods and passengers. As one of the flagship BRI projects, it is the first modern railway built in Kenya in the past century, also the country'...
In this context, public-private partnerships (PPPs) seem a godsend to replace the lack of government investment, by promising the availability of large amounts of resources for infrastructure projects. Despite these promises, the wave of PPPs that changed infrastructure provision in many countries ...
A number of high-profile and large-scale projects have been advanced. This paper sets out the evolution of these policy interventions and explains why government involvement is critical to their success. It documents the gradual return of the state, as part of a process of underpinning the ...
Infrastructure projects Figure 1 could be classified by subject into transportation, water networks and stations, natural gas network, electrical power networks and communications. Figure 1. Classification of infrastructure projects by subject. Due to the leak and shortage in the review papers of this...
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This is, by no means, an exhaustive list—but rather, these are examples of the types of projects that may warrant government and investor consideration (Exhibit 1). 1 Upgrading, operating, maintaining, or increasing capacity of State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) roads and bridges...
The plan also includes projects to improve disaster prevention, water supply, urbanization in favelas, land regularization and the upgrade of the public transit fleet.■