It is found for the last two decades that there has been a rapid rise of PPPs across the world. A government in developing countries like India is using PPP arrangements for improved delivery of infrastructure services and social services. Public Private Partnerships which are an integral part of the new paradigm of good governance policy is the most recent addition in the world of society and ...

The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs puzzles many observers. To help explain that result, this paper first compares the OECD and model-based estimates of the extent of the producer distortions (leaving aside consumer distortions), and show...

During the past few years, many articles and books have been written about managing software development projects. Software development projects using TEX require some special attention. This presentation looks at the entire software development life cycle as it applies to TEX and the following issues in particular: requirements specification, design specification, coding standards, code review...

We consider investments in development projects within competitive environments where the ‘‘winner takes everything’’. Under stationary uncertainty, it is optimal to start investing immediately at full capacity and continue until exhausting the allocated budget. For non-stationary environments, active investment, possibly deferred, will always be at full capacity; an example demonstrates that f...

Over the past decade, the NASA Langley Research Center developed a series of "grand challenge" applications demonstrating the use of parallel and distributed computation and multidisciplinary design optimization. All but the last of these applications were focused on the high-speed civil transport vehicle; the final application focused on reusable launch vehicles. Teams of discipline experts de...