INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

ARQ , 2023

This article explores the history of the concept of infrastructure, from its origins in 19th-century French railway legislation, its adoption as a metaphor for characterizing the social world, to its international expansion in both military and civilian domains.

Journal of Assam University, 1999

Beginning from the end of the 1980s many studies analysing the relation between infrastructures endowment and economic development have been realised. A general consensus is achieved around the idea that basic infrastructure facilities are important features related to economic performance, although both magnitude and causality direction are debated. A peculiar feature of these studies is that, across them, different empirical and theoretical entities are referred to infrastructure. Although the vast body of literature on infrastructures economic impact have been largely reviewed less attention have been paid to the term infrastructure per se. This article, aiming to provide a helpful instrument to critically interpret the existing literature, zooms in on infrastructure definition and then reviews different categories of infrastructures utilised in literature, namely: personal, institutional, material, immaterial, economic, social, core and not-core, basic and complementary, network, nucleus, and territory infrastructures. The final part deals with problems related to infrastructures measurement describing some financial-based measures and physical-based measures highlighting that both measures -due to economic and strictly computational problems -present pitfalls so that, in turn, both types of measures have critical aspects to be considered when interpreting results concerning infrastructures.

2011

The importance of the infrastructure sector to the process of economic growth and development has long been recognized and understood by scholars and policymakers. Without adequate infrastructure, modern commerce characterized by production specialization and exchange across markets would grind to a halt. Economic globalization would not take place without the reduction in communication and transportation costs brought about by the progress achieved in the development of infrastructure within and across countries. Thus, any attempt at understanding Malaysia's past experiences in economic development thus requires an analysis of the role that the infrastructure has played. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an analysis of how the infrastructure sector has developed in Malaysia and the role it has played in the country's development. In this chapter, the term 'infrastructure' refers to economic infrastructure, and principally covers transport, energy, information and communication technology, drinking water and sanitation.

2001

Infrastructure development is at a crucial juncture in India today. Tentative steps have been taken towards a more pluralistic provisioning, especially by the private sector, and as a result infrastructure as a whole has reached a point of irreversibility. It is no longer possible to go back to the ...

IPPR Progressive Review, 2020

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