Описание: This study assesses the potential for job creation through infrastructure investment in the Middle East and North Africa. The region has experience in making the most of infrastructure investments, but maintaining and spreading the momentum in infrastructure will be important to support future growth and job creation. To do so, policymakers will have to recognize that there are large differences in initial conditions across the region in terms of starting stock, needs, fiscal commitments, private sector participation and job creation potential. Overall, the region’s infrastructure needs through 2020 are quite large and estimated at about 106 billion dollars per year or 6.9 percent of the annual regional GDP. The differences in infrastructure and maintenance needs across sub-regions are also impressive, with developing oil exporters expected to require almost 11 percent of their GDP annually, while the oil importing countries and the GCC oil exporters expected to need approximately 6 and 5 percent of their GDP, respectively. Investment and rehabilitation needs are likely to be especially high in the electricity and transport sectors, particularly roads. Rehabilitation needs are expected to account for slightly more than half of total infrastructure needs. While oil exporters will be able to meet their national infrastructure needs if they maintain investment spending at rates prevailing in the 2000s, oil importers will fall short. The infrastructure sector has the potential to contribute to employment creation in MENA. The region could generate 2.0 million direct jobs and 2.5 million direct, indirect and induced infrastructure-related jobs just by meeting estimated, annual investment needs. However, the potential varies greatly across countries, and infrastructure alone will not resolve MENA’s unemployment problem. Going forward, decisions on what types of public spending to expand and what to downsize in order to achieve balanced budgets will have important implications for jobs. In designing country specific solutions, governments will have to tackle predictable challenges: the governance of job creation, the proper targeting and fiscal costs assessment of subsidies needed to create jobs, the design and fiscal costs of the (re)training programs needed and the expectations on the job creation effects of infrastructure.
Описание: This volume contains 88 papers presented at CSI 2013: 48th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India with the theme "ICT and Critical Infrastructure".
Описание: This volume contains 85 papers presented at CSI 2013: 48th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India with the theme "ICT and Critical Infrastructure".
Описание: It is often argued that the enhanced consultation of civil society contributes to the democratization of European and global governance. This collection investigates whether this theoretical argument is supported by empirical evidence. Ten original essays analyze current patterns of civil society consultation in 32 intergovernmental organizations.
Автор: Stuart Gray Название: Information Technology in a Global Society Solutions Book ISBN: 1482567768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781482567762 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4568.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Kai Wegrich Название: The governance of infrastructure ISBN: 0198787316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198787310 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13939.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume argues for a governance perspective on infrastructure.
The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.
Waste is material information. Landfills are detailed records of everyday consumption and behavior; much of what we know about the distant past we know from discarded objects unearthed by archaeologists and interpreted by historians. And yet the systems and infrastructures that process our waste often remain opaque. In this book, Dietmar Offenhuber examines waste from the perspective of information, considering emerging practices and technologies for making waste systems legible and how the resulting datasets and visualizations shape infrastructure governance. He does so by looking at three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects in Seattle, Sao Paulo, and Boston.
Offenhuber expands the notion of urban legibility -- the idea that the city can be read like a text -- to introduce the concept of infrastructure legibility. He argues that infrastructure governance is enacted through representations of the infrastructural system, and that these representations stem from the different stakeholders' interests, which drive their efforts to make the system legible. The Trash Track project in Seattle used sensor technology to map discarded items through the waste and recycling systems; the Forager project looked at the informal organization processes of waste pickers working for Brazilian recycling cooperatives; and mobile systems designed by the city of Boston allowed residents to report such infrastructure failures as potholes and garbage spills. Through these case studies, Offenhuber outlines an emerging paradigm of infrastructure governance based on a complex negotiation among users, technology, and the city.
Автор: Youde, Jeremy Название: Global Health Governance in International Society ISBN: 0198813058 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198813057 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book argues that the rise of institutions and organizations dedicated to global health-global health governance-has emerged, grown, and proven itself resilient over the past generation because international society has come to understand addressing global health as part of a larger sense of moral responsibility and obligation.
Автор: Weiss Thomas G Название: Global Governance ISBN: 0745660460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745660462 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2850.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority.
Автор: Bhattacharyya, Harihar (university Of Burdwan, India) Название: Radical politics and governance in india`s north east ISBN: 1138668729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138668720 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the roots, nature, governmental performance, and theoretical and policy implications of left radicalism in Tripura. The case of Tripura is placed in comparison with her neighbours in the region, and in some cases with India`s advanced States in governance matters.
Автор: Ramesh G., Nagadevara Vishnu Prasad, Naik Gopal Название: Urban Infrastructure and Governance ISBN: 1138664944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138664944 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A book that provides insights on the theme of urban governance in developing countries. It covers topics ranging from master plans and participation to financing.
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