Infrastructuring : the key to achieving economic growth, productivity, and quality of life /

The recent global financial crisis has intensified concerns over how nations--both developed and developing--can revitalize economic growth and ensure opportunity for prosperity to all citizens. Many analysts and policymakers alike are looking to new business creation and the promotion of entreprene...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samli, A. Coskun
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, c2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Developing infrastructures for economic progress, market development, and entrepreneurship
  • The forgotten power behind the scenes: deteriorating global infrastructure
  • Optimizing infrastructure development: difficult but necessary
  • Developing an action plan for infrastructures: from vision to action
  • Infrastructure and productivity: an uncharted territory
  • Changing global competitiveness: the role of infrastructure
  • Deeper foundations of infrastrucutre development
  • The choice between present versus future role of infrastructure
  • Infrastructure development plans
  • Connecting infrastructure to entrepreneurship
  • Global leadership begins with infrastructure
  • Domestic productivity or export support
  • An open letter to the serious reader of this book