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Cost and Time Overruns in Infrastructure Projects: Extent, Causes and Remedies

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Various issues related to delays and cost overruns in publically funded infrastructure projects are investigated. The study is based on, by far, the largest data-set of 850 projects across seventeen infrastructure sectors. The focus is on the causal factors behind time and cost overruns. [CDE WP No. 181].

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  • Ram Singh, 2009. "Cost and Time Overruns in Infrastructure Projects: Extent, Causes and Remedies," Working Papers id:2281, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Nandita Vadali & Anand Prakash Tiwari & Thillai Rajan A., 2014. "Effect of the Political Environment on Public Private Partnership Projects," Journal of Infrastructure Development, India Development Foundation, vol. 6(2), pages 145-165, December.
    2. Gunilla Öberg & Geneviève S. Metson & Yusuke Kuwayama & Steven A. Conrad, 2020. "Conventional Sewer Systems Are Too Time-Consuming, Costly and Inflexible to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-17, August.
    3. Ram Singh, 2018. "Public Private Partnerships Vs. Traditional Roads Project Delivery Time, Costs and Quality," Working papers 290, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
    4. Miranda Sarmento, J.J., 2014. "Public private partnerships," Other publications TiSEM c7d4c978-234c-4f88-83ed-1, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    5. Ram Singh, 2018. "Public–private partnerships vs. traditional contracts for highways," Indian Economic Review, Springer, vol. 53(1), pages 29-63, December.
    6. Steininger, Bertram & Groth, Martin & Weber, Birgitte, 2020. "Cost overruns and delays in infrastructure projects: the case of Stuttgart 21," Working Paper Series 20/11, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Real Estate and Construction Management & Banking and Finance.

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    time; sectors; India; economic; political; public goods; privatization; supply; servicesDelays; Cost Overruns; Time Overruns; Infrastructure; Projects; Causes; Contractual Failures; Organizational Failures; Institutional Failures;
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