Economics of Planning Public Works

Public works and social protection in sub-Saharan Africa Do public works work for the poor?

Economics, Planning and Operations

Linear programming is a tool that has yet to reach its full potential in power system engineering. To illustrate in a tutorial style how it is currently being applied and how its use evolved, applications are outlined in three areas: generation scheduling, loss minimization through allocation of reactive power supply, and planning of capital investments in generation equipment. The applications...

Behavioural Public Economics : Extended

Alós-Ferrer and Granić (2012) present results from two *eld experiments on electoral reform, which were carried out alongside o-cial state and federal elections in Germany, in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Electors who had voted in the o-cial elections, which used the mixed-member proportional representation (MMPR) system, were given the opportunity to vote in an experimental election using the ...

What Works in Family Planning: a Research

Despite past research, uncertainty exists about the processes and factors that motivate couples to limit family size. Under the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, the authors undertook a comprehensive review to advance the current state of knowledge about what makes family planning programs work. The review synthesized research conduct...

Who works in family planning clinics?

to community health work. Almost all the original core of public health doctors who lost their career structure in 1974 did some child health work. From 1974 onwards, however, doctors working in Family Planning Association clinics were integrated into the National Health Service. Many have continued to be employed on a sessional basis without contracts and have therefore often been unknown to p...