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Leveraging Land to Enable Urban Transformation : Lessons from Global Experience

Lozano-Gracia, Nancy ;  Young, Cheryl ;  Lall, Somik V. ;  Vishwanath, Tara 2013-01 Around the world, in both developed and developing countries, policy makers use a variety of tools to manage and accommodate urban growth and redevelopment. Government officials have three main concerns in terms of land policy: (i) accommodating urban expansion, (ii) providing infrastructure, [...]

Highway to success in India : the impact of the golden quadrilateral project for the location and performance of manufacturing

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R Policy Research Working Paper 6320 2013/01/01 The infrastructure gap is one of the most significant impediments to India realizing its growth and poverty reduction potential. Although India’s transport network is one of the most extensive in the world, accessibility and connectivity are limited. Only 20 percent of [...]

Transit Path For Indian Economy: Six Steps For Transforming The Elephant Into A Tiger

by k.C Chakrabarty (Address delivered by Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India at the interaction with members of Delhi Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization at New Delhi on December 7, 2012) Growth in India has clearly slowed down since then to 6.5 per cent in 2011-12 and a likely 5.8 [...]

Building India – Transforming the nation’s logistics infrastructure

Produced by: McKinsey & Company, 2012 A guide to constructing the optimal transportation infrastructure to build the country’s future. URL: http://www.mckinsey.com/…logistics_infrastructure.pdf Courtesy: McKinsey & Company

Let’s not overrate foreign investment

by Pulapre Balakrishnan, The Hindu, October 02, 2012 The government’s claim that it will dampen inflation, bring higher prices for farmers and lower prices for customers may be somewhat exaggerated. URL: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/lets-not-overrate-foreign-investment/article3955884.ece Courtesy:The Hindu

Pratyaya Amrit: The man who built Bihar’s road to success

By Amitabh Srivastava, India Today.  March 30, 2012 It was the beginning of February and Pratyaya Amrit, on the eve of commissioning of a key PPP project, found his Road Construction Department exemplifying the “toe-in-the-door” dictum. It was his toe in the door of expectations. Of the nine construction majors that had initially expressed their [...]

Removing poverty and inequality in India: the role of infrastructure

by Rajarshi Majumder MPRA Paper no.40941, April 2012 Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this association is different across types of infrastructure and regions. The present paper explores the multidimensional association between infrastructure and poverty in India in a regional framework. Infrastructural availability improves average living standards [...]

Finding the will to govern the economy

By Pulapre Balakrishnan The Hindu,  August 25, 2012 In less than half a decade the mood of India’s economic policy establishment has swung from hubris to dismay. The trumpeted arrival of double-digit growth did not materialise. Instead we face the prospect of sustained double-digit inflation. The polisariat, it appears, has run out of tricks. Any [...]

Manual on Infrastructure Statistics – India

CSO [2012] This manual on infrastructure statistics is prepared to guide the State Statistics Offices (SSO) in preparing statisticalpublications on Infrastructure statistics at state level. The scope of this manual has been kept limited to the publication “Infrastructure Statistics, 2010” so that SSOs are able to compile the publication at state level. URL: http://mospi.nic.in/…/Manual_Infrastructure_Statistics12.pdf Courtesy: [...]

Evolution of Financing Needs in Indian Infrastructure

by Pankaj Sinha; Deepshika Arya and Shuchi Singh MPRA Paper No.38741, April 2012 India has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies even in the difficult financial downturn era. In coming years, India will be demanding a large number of infrastructure services to match the demand and keep an upward sloping growth curve. Indian [...]

Vision Tamil Nadu 2023:Strategic Plan for Infrastructure Development in Tamil Nadu

Published by Governmnet of Tamil Nadu, March 2012 Vision 2023 Tamil Nadu (“Vision 2023”) sets the plan for infrastructure development for the state to reach the desired outcomes by 2023. The three outcomes of Vision 2023 are: (1) The per capita income of Tamil Nadu’s residents will reach US $10,000 per annum(at 2012 prices)-the present [...]

Does the Business Environment Affect Corporate Investment in India?

by Kiichi Tokuoka IMF Working Paper WP/12/70 March 2012 Since the global financial crisis, corporate investment has been weak in India. Sluggish corporate investment would not only moderate growth from the demand side but also constrain growth from the supply side over time. Against this background, this paper analyzes the reasons for the slowdown and [...]

On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China

by Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo and Nancy Qian NBER Paper Working No.17897, March 2012 This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend [...]

Strengthening Financial Infrastructure

by Peter J.Morgan and Mario Lamberte ADBI Working Paper No.345, February 2012 This study provides comparative perspectives on the current and prospective situation of financial market development in ASEAN, the PRC, and India, identifies key priorities for strengthening financial infrastructure to promote financial development and regional integration, and produces policy recommendations at the national, sub-regional [...]

KERALA’S CHALLENGE AND PROMISE

by Dr Vinod Thomas The Times of India, Thiruvananthapuram. February 7th 2012. Page.7 The state must make use of Malayali’s innate talent and its abundant natural resources to spearhead the transformational change for the next generation, says Asian Development Bank director general Dr Vinod Thomas. For new emerging economic centers such as Kerala, this is [...]

Let There be Light! Firms Operating under Electricity Constraints in Developing Countries

Philippe Alby, Jean-Jacques Dethier & Stéphane Straub IDEI Working Paper No. 686 Date: July 5, 2011 Many developing countries are unable to provide their industrial sector with reliable electric power and many enterprises have to contend with insufficient and unreliable electricity supply. Because of these constraints, enterprises often opt for self-generation even though it is [...]

The Efficiency of States and Cities: Is There a Case for Public Land Leasing and Sales to Finance India’s Cities?

Kala Seetharam Sridhar WIDER Working Paper 2011/54, September 2011 In this study an attempt has been made to assess the potential of land as a municipal financing tool in four Indian cities, to enable better public service delivery and attainment of the MDGs. The institutional arrangements for land use are fragmented in India’s cities between [...]

Integration of ICT Industries and its Impact on Market Access and Trade: The Case of Bangladesh and India

Monzur Hossain, Naoko Shinkai,Mohammad Yunus and Zaid Bakht SANEI WORKING PAPER SERIES No. 11 – 16 This study is a first of its kind which combines findings based on firm-level data from both India and Bangladesh aimed at deriving a set of conclusions on the prospect of development of the ICT industry in South Asia. [...]

Pricing Infrastructure-as-a-Service for Online Two- Sided Platform Providers

Soumyakanti Chakraborty and Sumanta Basu WPS No. 681/ September 2011 Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is expected to grow at a rapid pace in the next few years. This is primarily because of the flexibility that it off ers to  organizations to meet variable demand without any xed investment in  capacity. Our work focuses on a particular customer segment [...]

Has Deregulation Increased Investment in Infrastructure?: Firm-level evidence from OECD countries

Sónia Araújo OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 892 This paper investigates the role played by deregulation on firms’ investment decisions in infrastructure sectors. The analysis covers the period  1980-2006, which was characterised by increased liberalisation and privatisation across OECD countries. We assess the relationship of different dimensions of the regulatory framework, such as the [...]

Can India Achieve Double-digit growth ?

Richard Herd, Paul Conway, Sam Hill, Vincent Koen, Thomas Chalau OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 883 In recent years, India has enjoyed one of the highest growth rates worldwide, weathering the global financial crisis better than many other countries. Prudent macroeconomic policies will be critical to prolonging the current expansion, given the risks associated [...]

Financing Infrastructure in India:Macroeconomic Lessons and Emerging MarketCase Studies

by James P. Walsh, Chanho Park and Jiangyan Yu IMF WP/11/181, August, 2011 Driving infrastructure development, notably mobilizing financial resources for infrastructure projects, has been challenging in many countries. This study includes two parts: an empirical analysis of macroeconomic risks associated with infrastructure booms, and a case study of four emerging economies about their practice [...]

Financing Infrastructure for Connectivity: Policy Implications for Asia

By Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay ADBI Research Policy Brief  33, June 2011 In view of Asia’s huge infrastructure needs, as well as the reduced demand for exports due to the ongoing global financial and economic crisis, infrastructure projects offer a way of increasing regional demand and intraregional trade. This policy brief proposes various ways to tap [...]

Infrastructure’s Role in Lowering Asia’s Trade Costs: Building for Trade

Editor: Douglas Brooks,and David Hummels (2009) A JOINT PUBLICATION OF THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK INSTITUTE AND EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING Infrastructure is shown to be a cost-effective means of lowering trade costs and thereby promoting regional growth and integration. This book combines thematic and country studies, while breaking new ground in quantifying infrastructure’s impact on Asia’s trade costs. [...]

Total Factor Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology

Arup Mitra, Chandan Sharma, and Marie-Ange Veganzones (2011) Drawing on a recent dataset of the Indian manufacturing industry for 1994 to 2008, this paper shows for eight sectors that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and Technical Efficiency (TE).In the analysis, we use a range of advanced [...]

India Wind Energy Outlook 2011

Published jointly by GWEC,WISE and IWTMA April 2011 The Indian Wind Energy Outlook 2011 is a joint publication by GWEC, WISE and IWTMA. The report examines the current status of wind power development in India, discusses the policy environment for wind, and assesses the potential for future growth, and highlights the economic, environmental and energy [...]

Towards a Green Economy:Pathways to Sustainable Development and Povert Eradication

United Nations Environment programme, 2011 Towards a Green Economy is among UNEP’s key contributions to the Rio+20 process and the overall goal of addressing poverty and delivering a sustainable 21st century. The report makes a compelling economic and social case for investing two per cent of global GDP in greening ten central sectors of the [...]

Estimating the Contribution of Infrastructure in Regional Productivity Growth in India

By  Astha Agarwalla IIMA W.P. No. 2011-05-01 There does not seem to be a consensus on the importance of infrastructure investments in the process of economic development. With persistent regional disparities, and increasing regional identities, there is a need to determine the drivers of regional growth. Contribution of infrastructure to regional productivity growth is analyzed [...]

Appropriate Financial Instruments for Public-Private Partnership to Boost Cross-Border InfrastructuralDevelopment-EU Experience

By  Willem van der Geest and Jorge Nunez-Ferrer ADBI Working Paper Series No.281, May 2011 The member states of the European Union (EU) and the EU institutions have increasingly been using public-private partnerships (PPPs) to accelerate the development of (ambitious) trans-national infrastructure. This paper argues that in the EU (i) private sector partners remain risk-averse; [...]

Policies and Measures to Mitigate the Potential Environmental Impacts of Cross-Border Infrastructure Projects in Asia

ZhongXiang Zhang ADBI Working Paper No. 261 Date: January 2011 While bringing positive impacts and benefits, cross-border infrastructure projects face additional challenges relative to national projects. Moreover, such projects involve a variety of technical, regulatory, institutional, and legal factors, and their obstacles constrain the development of cross-border infrastructure projects. This paper argues that proper technical [...]

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