Infrastructure Development

CONTENTS: Infrastructure Growth in the Developing Countries - Role, Issues and Challenges; Various Models in Infrastructure Financing; Public-Private Partnerships: The Best method to Finance Urban Infrastructure; Investment in Infrastructure: Key to Economic Change; Social Cost Benefit Analysis in Indian Roads- Development with Responsibility; Infrastructure Policy Framework in India: Present Status and Suggestive Models; A Model for Risk-based Pricing of Infrastructure Financing by Banks; An Alternative Model for Infrastructure Funding - Transferring Loan Assets from Banks by Pooling Securities that can be sold to Investors; FDI in Infrastructure: How to Attract?; Is PPP Really Needed for the Infrastructure Sector?; TEARR -A Framework for Providing Quality Infrastructure and Services; Transformation in the Road Transport System of Bogota: An Overview; Urban Multimodal Transport: Experiences in Developing Countries; Key Factors in Financing Urban Transport Modernisation: Some Lessons from Central Europe; Private Participation in Infrastructure in China; Solar Energy Development in India; Low- Cost Carriers: Their Growth, and the Success of their Business Model; Airport Privatization and Financing - Country Experiences and Lessons for India; India's Energy Woes and the Nuclear Option.