Author: Bill GatesPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring
The Road Ahead
Author: Bill GatesPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring
A Look at Zambia’s Road Financing Strategies: The Impact of Incongruent Policies and Budgets
Author: Yohane TemboPublisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
ISBN: 3954893517
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
There are various reasons why the road asset in Zambia has been deteriorating over the past five decades since independence. Much effort to restore the road asset to its original value and keep it maintained in a good and safe condition was initiated in mid 1990s with the launch of the Road Sector Investment Plan – Phase I, which was immediately followed by the launch of a Phase II to run from 2003 to 2013. It is my appreciation that many diagnostic studies into road financing strategies which could have led to inefficient road asset management in Zambia have been undertaken, and various solutions tendered. The author takes cognizance that resource mobilization for road construction and maintenance, and subsequent allocation to respective road programs can often be problematic for an emerging country like Zambia. It has the potential to lead to inefficiencies in road asset management as has evidently been demonstrated in the declining road asset value over time. The political, as well as the economic, landscape plays a vital role in resource mobilization and allocation strategies as much as the institutional and the legal framework do. The failure to clear the backlog of maintenance which normally results, largely, from deferment of scheduled maintenance due to insufficient annual budgetary allocation to the road sector maintenance programs has led to the significant deterioration in road network condition. Exorbitant road construction costs have posed additional challenges to the fiscus, thereby constraining both the quantity and quality of road infrastructure that could be constructed and maintained at any given time. Recent policy drives have been categorical in their preference of new road construction aimed at linking Zambia, over road maintenance, which plays a pivotal role in road asset management. This creates a perception that policy pronouncements are at variance to policy documents which promote sustainable economic development through efficient road investments and could be seen as being paradoxical in that the actual financing strategies are skewed towards road construction, a recipe of comfort for the next election challenge due to increased visibility on the ground, rather than to maintenance, as an astute and effective way of managing the road asset. The difficult of establishing congruence between government pronouncements and actual road business strategies in the implementing agencies has, over the years, posed challenges to the fiscal policy implementation. Consequently, this has often led to serious budget overruns due, firstly, to unplanned expenditure and, secondly, variations due to scope increase resulting from project implementation without having prior designs. This has led to high operating inefficiencies of existing roads due to the high level of pavement degradation, with the eventual effect of higher vehicle operating costs, longer travel-times, driver and passenger discomfort, and ultimately, higher agency pavement replacement costs. The damage caused to the economy is apparent in all this. The author carried out an analysis of road financing strategies in Zambia, taking a special look into the past decade, with the view to ascertaining the extent to which roads budgets have been employed to fund new construction and maintenance. This was necessary to establish whether there was a mismatch in allocation of resources for roads in terms of needs and policy, in which new road construction is highly favored in preference to maintenance. It was hoped that if the mismatch existed, it would espouse some paradoxes which existed between the road asset management policies and actual strategies.
Teacher's Literacy Resource Book to Support Look Out on the Road
Author: Gillian LiuPublisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 9780237519209
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A teacher's resource which is designed to accompany the big book and the small format book of the same title. It offers a wide variety of photocopiable activities for group and individual work use during the literacy hour. The tasks are differentiated to help develop an independence in learning.
United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports
Author: United States. Courts of AppealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The Belt and Road Initiative Looks East
Author: Willem OosterveldPublisher: The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
ISBN: 9492102668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Old Industrial Cities Seeking New Road of Industrialization
Author: Mark WangPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814390542
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In the context of market economy and competition from rapidly growing coastal areas, Northeast China became the burden to China's overall economic development. With a high concentration of state-owned heavy industries, cities in this region suffered from heavy losses in revenue and massive layoffs of millions of former state-owned enterprise workers, known as the "Northeast Phenomenon" or "Neo-Northeast Phenomenon". The once towering economic giant was down. Such a "phenomenon" is not uncommon in other "rust belt" regions in industrialized economies. However, since the implementation of the Chinese Government's "Revitalisation Strategy of Northeast China" in 2003, cities in Northeast China have gone through various transformations.
Brothers
Author: Bob RodgersPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445276836
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Road Congress
Author: Twelve Years down the Road
Author: Alan NeilPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 149171929X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Astronomy and some religions believe that life is a series of cycles. That is certainly reflected in the tale of Al's long, adventurous life; the cycle spun him in many different directions over the years. Twelve Years down the Road shares a collection of stories and events detailing the diversity of Al's unique life. From early childhood, he lived with his parents and two brothers in the woods of East Texas on a family farm surrounded by a national forest with a wildlife management area across the road. These stories reveal how he met the love of his life Betty, what he learned by delivering the Dallas Morning News, how he fared at his fi rst job in the Mississippi Delta in the middle of KKK country, how he perceived his work at a Texas prison, and how he came to work in Siberia for a pipeline company. As Al reflects on the cycles his long and varied life, he shares the stories that shape a person and make a man a man.
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