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Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS, volume 1)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Infrastructure construction and use is at the heart o the current political debate. Not only are European member state governments investing large amounts of money to alleviate the harmful effects of the economic downturn due to the credit crisis, EU accession countries receive large amounts of cohesion funds for infrastructure purposes. Infrastructure is widely believed to contribute largely to economic performance, but to what extent is this the case? How does the productivity of roads, railways and ports relate to the invested money, and what determines their effectiveness?
In this Brief, which focuses to a large extent on Dutch and European practice, numerous distinguished economists describe policy practice and analytical tools for infrastructure appraisal. Moreover, harmonisation of European approaches for evaluation of infrastructure are discussed. The study focuses both on scientific productivity measurement as on case studies of infrastructure policy.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infrastructure Productivity Evaluation
Editors: Wouter Jonkhoff, Walter Manshanden
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8101-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: TNO (Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research) 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-8100-4Published: 11 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8101-1Published: 11 January 2011
Series ISSN: 2191-5504
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5512
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 96
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Policy, Public Economics, Regional/Spatial Science