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Author : Adebayo Adedeji
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Survey of Highway Development in the Western Region of Nigeria written by Adebayo Adedeji and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael O. Onolememen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000026353
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Infrastructure Development in Nigeria written by Michael O. Onolememen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics and economics of infrastructure development in Nigeria from Independence in 1960 up to 2015, and the role of good governance in promoting the socioeconomic wellbeing of citizens. Arguing for the need for transformational leadership in infrastructure development, the chapters examine policy issues and survey the various administrative, economic, and social-political reforms that have impacted infrastructure development in Nigeria. The author also discusses current national development plans and Vision 20:2020; challenges to infrastructure development, including corruption; and the future potential of a strong infrastructure network for the economy and citizens. Drawing upon his experience within government departments, as well as existing models of leadership and governance, the author explores the role of infrastructure development in promoting the wellbeing and growth of Nigeria. Combining theory with practical examples of good governance, this book will be of interest for students and researchers of political science and infrastructure development in Africa.
Author : Rubaba Ali
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 146480656X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Highways to Success or Byways to Waste written by Rubaba Ali and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. They connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet much of the developing world, Africa in particular, lacks adequate transportation infrastructure. Accordingly investments in transportation remain a cornerstone of the development agenda. Sub-Saharan Africa spends roughly $6.8 billion per year on paving roads, and the World Bank invests more on roads than on education, health, and social services combined. Despite the development focus on transportation, methodologies for evaluating which road projects to fund are often dis-jointed and unreliable. This report hopes to improve upon the current approaches by establishing a new methodology for prioritization which can be applied to a diverse set of scenarios, regions, and projects. This book demonstrates how modern econometrics and geospatial techniques can be combined to analyze the latest available geo-referenced datasets at the smallest possible scale to answer some of the most important questions in development. Uniquely this report attempts to shed light on some of the most profound puzzles in determining the impacts of roads and where to locate these. Does road infrastructure unleash a virtuous growth cycle? Is it advisable to improve roads in conflict prone zones? What is the effect of improving market access on farming practices? And what are the impacts of roads on forests and biodiversity? It is envisioned that the approach used in this book can be a reference guide to researchers from across the spectrum of international development, who are seeking new tools and insights into the many issues (technical and non-technical) of this important field.
Author : Nwando Achebe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222486
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Female King of Colonial Nigeria written by Nwando Achebe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.
Author : Raffaello Cervigni
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821399241
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Toward Climate-Resilient Development in Nigeria written by Raffaello Cervigni and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If not addressed in time, climate change is expected to exacerbate Nigeria’s current vulnerability to weather swings and limit its ability to achieve and sustain the objectives of Vision 20:2020 [as defined in http://www.npc.gov.ng /home/doc.aspx?mCatID=68253]. The likely impacts include: • A long-term reduction in crop yields of 20–30 percent • Declining productivity of livestock, with adverse consequences on livelihoods • Increase in food imports (up to 40 percent for rice long term) • Worsening prospects for food security, particularly in the north and the southwest • A long-term decline in GDP of up to 4.5 percent The impacts may be worse if the economy diversifies away from agriculture more slowly than Vision 20:2020 anticipates, or if there is too little irrigation to counter the effects of rising temperatures on rain-fed yields. Equally important, investment decisions made on the basis of historical climate may be wrong: projects ignoring climate change might be either under- or over-designed, with losses (in terms of excess capital costs or foregone revenues) of 20–40 percent of initial capital in the case of irrigation or hydropower. Fortunately, there is a range of technological and management options that make sense, both to better handle current climate variability and to build resilience against a harsher climate: • By 2020 sustainable land management practices applied to 1 million hectares can offset most of the expected shorter-term yield decline; gradual extension of these practices to 50 percent of cropland, possibly combined with extra irrigation, can also counter-balance longer-term climate change impacts. • Climate-smart planning and design of irrigation and hydropower can more than halve the risks and related costs of making the wrong investment decision. The Federal Government could consider 10 short-term priority responses to build resilience to both current climate variability and future change through actions to improve climate governance across sectors, research and extension in agriculture, hydro-meteorological systems; integration of climate factors into the design of irrigation and hydropower projects, and mainstreaming climate concerns into priority programs, such as the Agriculture Transformation Agenda.
Author : Adebayo Adedeji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135181020
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Towards a Dynamic African Economy written by Adebayo Adedeji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1989. From his vantage point as head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Professor Adedeji discusses the development experience of Africa during the critical 1975–1986 period. The collection not only provides extensive factual material on global and sectoral developments but also critically evaluates the economic performance of the continent and advances ideas on methods for and approaches to ensuring a better future.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book New African Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Highway Construction Program for Alaska written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 87-17. Considers H.J. Res. 572, to authorize Commerce Dept to assist with the study and survey for improving highway construction in Alaska.
Author : Raffaello Cervigni
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821399268
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Low-Carbon Development written by Raffaello Cervigni and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Government of Nigeria has adopted an ambitious strategy to make Nigeria the world’s 20th largest economy by 2020. Sustaining such a pace of growth will entail rapid expansion of the level of activity in key carbon-emitting sectors, such as power, oil and gas, agriculture and transport. In the absence of policies to accompany economic growth with a reduced carbon foot-print, emissions of greenhouse gases could more than double in the next two decades. This study finds that there are several options for Nigeria to achieve the development objectives of vision 20:2020 and beyond, but stabilizing emissions at 2010 levels, and with domestic benefits in the order of 2 percent of GDP. These benefits include cheaper and more diversified electricity sources; more efficient operation of the oil and gas industry; more productive and climate –resilient agriculture; and better transport services, resulting in fuel economies, better air quality, and reduced congestion. The study outlines several actions that the Federal Government could undertake to facilitate the transition towards a low carbon economy, including enhanced governance for climate action, integration of climate consideration in the Agriculture Transformation Agenda, promotion of energy efficiency programs, scale-up of low carbon technologies in power generation (such as renewables an combined cycle gas turbines), and enhance vehicle fuel efficiency.
Author : United States. Bureau of International Commerce
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Nigeria written by United States. Bureau of International Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Indrajit Pal
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981165543X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Cities and Resilience written by Indrajit Pal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021). It provides insights on urban resilience and sustainable infrastructure. All the chapters in this volume are segregated into five clusters, e.g., Resilient infrastructure in construction, Innovative construction interventions, Waste Management and Disaster Risk Reduction, Urban Development and Sustainability, and Cross-cutting issues. Various topics covered in this book are risk assessment, prevention, mitigation, preparedness and response, renewable energy, waste management, resilient cities, and environmental management. This book is a comprehensive volume on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and its management for a sustainable built environment. This book will be useful for the students, researchers, policy makers and professionals working in the area of civil engineering, especially disaster management.
Author : United States. Department of the Treasury
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Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Foreign Credits by the United States Government written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Annual Report to the President and to the Congress written by National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Report to the President and to the Congress for Fiscal Year ... written by National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Robinson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482288206
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Road Engineering for Development written by Richard Robinson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing countries in the tropics have different natural conditions and different institutional and financial situations to industrialized countries. However, most textbooks on highway engineering are based on experience from industrialized countries with temperate climates, and deal only with specific problems. Road Engineering for Development (published as Highway and Traffic Engineering in Developing Countries in its first edition) provides a comprehensive description of the planning, design, construction and maintenance of roads in developing countries. It covers a wide range of technical and non-technical problems that may confront road engineers working in this area. The technical content of the book has been fully updated and current development issues are focused on. Designed as a fundamental text for civil engineering students this book also offers a broad, practical view of the subject for practising engineers. It has been written with the assistance of a number of world-renowned specialist professional engineers with many years experience in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Central America.
Author : Edward Simpson
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1787389952
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Highways to the End of the World written by Edward Simpson and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that road-building was naturalised in the twentieth century to the point of common sense, integrating roadbuilding into a system of climate change denial hidden within a broad international development imperative. But if we can ‘read’ South Asian roads as forms of governance and knowledge, we can challenge the region’s established geopolitical narratives, and the idea of a never-ending future. Highways to the End of the World explores the political economy of these ideas by focusing on the history of this phenomenon, and on the road-builders of South Asia themselves. How do these flamboyant and controversial ‘roadmen’ think about their work and the future of the planet? What do roads do, and why? And how did they become central to the region’s nationalist and developmental projects in the first place? Simpson’s fascinating ethnographic account takes us from fume-filled toll booths in the heart of India, via overworked government offices in Pakistan, to pharaonic bridges in the Indian Ocean. Simpson follows the money, explores the politics of evidence, and argues against the utopian hyperbole of present-day ‘road talk’, finding both humanitarian crises and freewheeling international capital in the hedgerows. Roads have never been so interesting, or so controversial.
