scholarly journals An Opportunities-Based Approach to Mitigating Risks Associated with Infrastructure Development Projects

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Messerschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Field Experience ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Energy And Environment

‘Risk' is a major point of focus in the literature on resettlement and reconstruction associated with the impacts of major infrastructure development on project affected individuals and families. Previous approaches to risk appear to emphasize the negative consequences of development, and it is no wonder then that project affected people often emphatically resist development and change. This paper proposes that a more pro-active, positive opportunities and benefits approach be taken in dealing with resettlement and reconstruction associated with large scale infrastructure projects. The discussion is focused on the eight ‘risk factors' (or ‘opportunity factors'?) listed in the well known ‘Impoverishment Risk and Reconstruction' (IRR) Model. Three more such factors are added to the list based on field experience in South Asia. The point is that by emphasizing the potential opportunities and benefits, project affected people are more likely to be supportive of projects that may disrupt their lives. Key words: Resettlement, opportunities, risk, IRR model, South Asia, infrastructure development  doi: 10.3126/hn.v3i0.1912 Hydro Nepal: Journal of Water, Energy and Environment Issue No. 3, January, 2008 Page 9-15

scholarly journals IMPACTS OF RISK FACTORS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS IN VIETNAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Do Tien Sy ◽  
Veerasak Likhitruangsilp ◽  
Masamitsu Onishi ◽  
Phong Thanh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Subjective Evaluation ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Transportation Projects ◽  
The Government ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
Laws And Regulations

The rapidly increasing demand and the inefficacy of financing transportation infrastructure project investments have contributed to various challenges for Vietnam in recent decades. Since the country’s budget is inadequate for investing in all necessary infrastructure projects, the Vietnam government has been inviting other economic sectors, especially the private sector, to participate in infrastructure development. The cooperation between the government agencies and the private entities, called PublicPrivate Partnership (PPP), must encounter various challenges leading to difficulties in attracting private investors. A main reason is that private investors must deal with critical risks concerning PPP investment environment. It is a challenging task for the government to optimally manage such risks to enhance the attractiveness of PPP projects for private investors. This paper examines the critical risk factors that influence the private sector’s investment decisions on PPP transportation projects in Vietnam. Risk factors inherent in typical PPP projects were compiled by comprehensive literature review. To reflect unique characteristics of PPP projects in Vietnam, the compiled risk factors were reviewed by a group of PPP experts from both the public and private sectors in Vietnam through indepth interviews and questionnaire surveys. In addition, ten PPP project case studies in Vietnam were analyzed to derive the risk profile of PPP transportation projects of the nation. These risk factors were quantitatively assessed based on their probabilities and impact levels. We found that the critical risk factors of PPP infrastructure projects in Vietnam are acquisition/compensation problems, approvals and permits, inadequate feasibility studies, finance market issues, subjective evaluation methods, and change in laws and regulations. By performing factor analysis, these critical risk factors were grouped into four categories: (1) bidding process, (2) finance issues, (3) laws and regulations, and (4) project evaluation issues. These critical risk factors represent the obstacles that repel private investors from PPP transportation projects in Vietnam. Thus, the Vietnam government agencies should meticulously address these issues to attract both domestic and foreign private investors in PPP projects.

scholarly journals Resistance and Potential for Development: Examining the Role of Religion in the Development of Women in the Infrastructure Projects in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (101) ◽  
pp. 197-211
Author(s):  
Rahla Rahat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
The Government ◽  
International Financing

Pakistan is going through large scale infrastructure development with most of the state-led mega projects being funded by international financing agencies. Many of these agencies have mandatory social safeguards to mitigate the negative impacts of the projects for project-affected-communities especially women. This provides the government an opportunity to advance the conditions of women in project areas. However, the gender mainstreaming efforts usually face resistance from communities on various grounds including religion. This study explores the nature of resistance on religious basis and the strategies used by the development practitioners to manage such resistance. A qualitative research approach was employed and through a purposive sampling technique participants were recruited for this study. In-depth interviews were used to collect data which was analyzed by thematic analysis. The data was collected from development practitioners working for government and international financing agencies on infrastructure projects. Resistance towards development of women initiatives are on interventions, presence of female staff in communities, and on giving access to project teams, including women, to females in communities. Major reasons for this resistance were suspicion of projects, especially if the financing agencies were Western, and the fear that development of women may result in women losing their religious and cultural values which may lead to the breakdown of the institution of family and Islamic society. The strategies to deal with these resistances include involving religious leaders as stakeholders, peer education through religious scholars, exposure visits for local religious leaders, developing gender and cultural sensitivities of the staff, meaningful consultation with community, and effective grievance redress mechanism.

scholarly journals Incidence, Outcomes and Risk Factors of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia after Total Joint Arthroplasty: An Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample Database

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhang Chen ◽  
Jian Wang ◽  
Zhan-jun Shi ◽  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Qinfeng Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Racial Minority ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
National Inpatient Sample ◽  
Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia ◽  
Comorbidity Index

Abstract Background Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a severe immune-mediated complication of heparin exposure, leading to negative consequences after total hip (THA) and knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, the incidence and risk factors of HIT remain to be elucidated. This study aimed to identify the incidence, outcomes, and risk factors of HIT after THA and TKA. Methods A retrospective study was conducted using the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database from 2005 to 2014. The incidence and outcomes of HIT after THA or TKA were documented. Logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the postoperative HIT risk factors. Results A total of 593,045 patients who underwent THA and 1,228,707 patients who underwent TKA were identified. The cumulative incidences were 0.02% and 0.01%, respectively. The HIT group presented significantly higher Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and Elixhauser Comorbidity Index (ECI) scores, longer hospital stays (LOS), and higher medical costs. HIT led to a significantly higher mortality rate after THA (2.17% vs. 0.16%, p =0.0091). Although not statistically significant, the HIT mortality rate after TKA was also increased (0.58% vs. 0.07%; p =0.1178). In THA, the risk factors of HIT were racial minority, AIDS, pulmonary circulation disorders (PCD), psychoses, and hypertension; the protective factors were large-scale and teaching hospitals. In TKA, the HIT risk factors were racial minority, PCD, and weight loss. Teaching hospitals served as protective factors. Conclusions The incidence of HIT after THA and TKA is relatively low; however, HIT significantly increases inpatient mortality, LOS, and medical cost. Therefore, HIT warrants considerable attention and further investigation.

scholarly journals ROLE OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AND URBAN SECTOR OF INDIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
Krishna Somani ◽  
Dr. Ankita Singh Rao
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Basic Requirement ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Urban Sector ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Private And Public

Infrastructure is the basic requirement for development of any business or any city or country. The development of any civilization takes place when the infrastructure develops. In this paper the development in few sectors like finance, land acquisition and planning related to technologies, water, telecommunication, and energy are covered with the upcoming planning and strategies to solve the issues. If infra develops every sector of society will develop in every aspect. Government Infrastructure Projects (PPP), Government Infrastructure Projects (Traditional Procurement) and Private Sector Projects are serving in development in infrastructure. KEY WORDS: Infrastructure, private and public investors, India, technologies, water, telecommunication, and energy.

scholarly journals Linkages Between Large-scale Infrastructure Development and Conflict Dynamics in East Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jon Unruh ◽  
Matthew Pritchard ◽  
Emily Savage ◽  
Chris Wade ◽  
Priya Nair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Potential Conflict ◽  
Conflict Risk

With the rapid increase in the number of mega-infrastructure projects underway across East Africa, how the social, economic, political and environmental repercussions of these projects intersect with ongoing conflict dynamics is a poorly understood topic. Although recent interest in large-scale land acquisitions has led to a number of detailed investigations into specific projects and trends, there has not yet been a broad, systematic review of how large-scale infrastructure developments in East Africa interact with previous, ongoing and potential conflict in their areas of operation. The objective of this article is to report on an analysis of 26 mega-infrastructure projects across Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda, with an explicit focus on the common tension points that contribute to security dynamics. The methodology used involved two composite indicators of risk—a conflict risk score and a project impact score. The study found seven common tensions across all projects: in-migration, population displacement and relocation, a negative history of community relations with previous or follow-on developments, land rights, securitisation, environmental degradation and expectations of the local population relative to benefits delivered by the project. The study recommends increased attention on prior assessments that focus on the broader and more interconnected impacts in addition to those confined to the immediate project location, as well as in-depth examination of possible mitigation measures. JEL Classification: O1, O2, Q2, Q3, Q4, R1, R4

scholarly journals URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS AND CHALLENGES, RISK IDENTIFYING FOR EMERGING NEW CITIES OF NEPAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
Madhav Prasad Koirala
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
Wide Road ◽  
Hospital School

Nepal is beautiful country. According to new geographical structure there are six metropolitan cities, eleven sub-metropolitan cities. Seventeen cities are already urbanized and two hundred and seventy-six municipalities are also newly emerging cities. The objective of this research is mainly urban infrastructure development, its challenges, explore the problems, identify defective coordination within the interdisciplinary ministry, suggest for integrated infrastructure, to aware risk factors associated during urban infrastructures. The methodology adopted was according to various literature reviews and surveys conducted on the sport. Respondent were selected from concerned authorities, this research shows everyone want affordable housing, public hospital, school, college, university, drinking water, communication, drain and sanitation facilities and wide road are prime needs. It was found the defective procurement policy including various risk factors, a lack of adequate government’s act with necessary policies, vision of leader is not globally thinking and locally acting, human resource is not compatible, the poor performance of contactor and consultant, project manager is not being professional and allocating budget is not enough, since one authority built, immediately other authority dig the trench. if government started integrated urban infrastructure projects would better for future and proper risk management plan needs to establish.

scholarly journals Transport infrastructure development financing problems and main investment trends in 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-145
Author(s):  
Natalya A. Zhuravleva ◽  
Tomas Kliestik
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Project Financing ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Investment Volume ◽  
Infrastructure Project ◽  
Changes Of State

Background: The realisation of large-scale plans of Russian infrastructure development, transport in particular, requires a corresponding methodological guidance for both planning of realisation of these tasks and development of the proper financing instrumentarium. Aim: The analysis of reasons for incompliance of programme tasks with their financing conditions; formalisation of investment trends in todays economy and description of their capability to adapt to Russian projects. Methods: The method of rising from concrete to abstract and vice versa has allowed identification of important regularities of investment trends and their connection with the quality of projects; the systems principle has confirmed dependence of successful realisation of infrastructure projects on reliability of economic development forecasts and adequacy of projects financing and management. Results: The analysis of ongoing changes of state priorities and programmes, outlined in a large number of documents regulating development of transport infrastructure in Russia, has allowed identification of influence of most significant regularities, which determine effectiveness of these solutions. All available transport infrastructure project financing sources have been systemised, considering investment volume and their status in the market. The statement that it is exactly the loan-based financing sources, concession in the first instance, that can be the most efficient in infrastructure projects realisation, has been confirmed.

scholarly journals Identifying Forward and Backward Linkages From China's Infrastructure Investment in Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Ehizuelen Michael Mitchell Omoruyi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Infrastructure Investment ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
African Youth ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Backward Linkages ◽  
Backward And Forward Linkages

The continent of Africa must industrialize to eradicate poverty and create jobs for its 12 million African youth who join its workforce yearly. One of the major factors hindering industrialization has been the insufficient stock of productive infrastructure that would permit companies to thrive in industries with robust comparative advantage. Within the context of Africa-China cooperation, China has emerged as a key partner to several African nations, including financing as well as constructing large-scale infrastructure projects. With emphasis on the Tazara railway, Mombasa-Nairobi railway, and Ghana Bui hydropower dam, this paper employs backward and forward linkages theory to investigate what role these three Chinese-led infrastructure projects play in African infrastructure development and what the infrastructure investment leads to concerning creating new opportunities and businesses for Africa. The paper discovers that these three Chinese-led infrastructure projects have multiple gains and linkages for and beyond the three various projects areas. Above all, these three Chinese-led infrastructure projects were seen by the Chinese government to fulfil its goals in Africa.

Further Evidence for Criterion Validity and Measurement Invariance of the Luxembourg Workplace Mobbing Scale

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp E. Sischka ◽  
Alexander F. Schmidt ◽  
Georges Steffgen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Negative Consequences

Abstract. Workplace mobbing has various negative consequences for targeted individuals and are costly to organizations. At present it is debated whether gender, age, or occupation are potential risk factors. However, empirical data remain inconclusive as measures of workplace mobbing so far lack of measurement invariance (MI) testing – a prerequisite for meaningful manifest between-group comparisons. To close this research gap, the present study sought to further elucidate MI of the recently developed brief Luxembourg Workplace Mobbing Scale (LWMS; Steffgen, Sischka, Schmidt, Kohl, & Happ, 2016 ) across gender, age, and occupational groups and to test whether these factors represent important risk factors of workplace mobbing. Furthermore, we sought to expand data on criterion validity of the LWMS with different self-report criterion measures such as psychological health (e.g., work-related burnout, suicidal thoughts), physiological health problems, organizational behavior (i.e., subjective work performance, turnover intention, and absenteeism), and with a self-labeling mobbing index. Data were collected via computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) in a representative sample of 1,480 employees working in Luxembourg (aged from 16 to 66; 45.7% female). Confirmatory factor analyses revealed scalar MI across gender and occupation as well as partial scalar invariance across age groups. None of these factors impacted on the level of workplace mobbing. Correlation and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses strongly support the criterion validity of the LWMS. Due to its briefness while at the same time being robust against language, age, gender, and occupational group factors and exhibiting meaningful criterion validity, the LWMS is particularly attractive for large-scale surveys as well as for single-case assessment and, thus, general percentile norms are reported in the Electronic Supplementary Materials.

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