Infrastructure challenges continue to drive considerable public policy debate. The nation’s economy relies very heavily on the combined provision of three critical infrastructures: energy, banking and finance, and information technology (IT). These three critical infrastructures are interconnected, interdependent and cross-cutting essential services to the whole economy. Indeed, the “incapacity...

home business is one of the best fields of women's economic activity and considered as an important strategy for job creation, particularly for rural women. nonetheless many barriers avoid addressing rural women to these businesses. the main purpose of this study was to analyze the most important barriers for trends of rural women and girls to home businesses. the statistical population of...

Infrastructure systems face a number of pressing challenges relating to demographics, environment, finance and governance pressures. Furthermore, infrastructure mediates the way in which everyday lives are conducted; their form and function creating a persistence of unsustainable practice and behaviour that cannot be changed even if change is desired. There is a need to find means by which this...

Clean energy projects have difficulties accessing finance. The transition to clean and accelerating investments in green require a game-changing approach, groundbreaking infrastructure, pioneering financing strategies. This article discusses the potential of blockchain technology filling investment gap. Use cases related application are analyzed. Blockchain can provide security, transparency, a...

roads, schools, fire stations, hospitals, airports, and much more— all of these different types of infrastructure are financed through municipal capital markets. These markets are vital to american households, both as savers and as consumers of the services these markets enable. objective and informed research on the ways in which municipal markets operate can help inform the decisions of both ...

Infrastructure systems face a number of pressing challenges relating to demographics, environment, finance and governance pressures. Furthermore, infrastructure mediates the way in which everyday lives are conducted; their form and function creating a persistence of unsustainable practice and behaviour that cannot be changed even if change is desired. There is a need to find means by which this...

The paper considers the local provision of public infrastructure when population is mobile. It shows that inflexible deficit limitation may result in too little local public investment if population is perfectly mobile in the long run. Conversely, given the existence of migration externalities, implementing Musgrave's pay as you use finance, according to which new debt should match net investme...

in this study, the profitability of contrarian and momentum strategies were traded in mid- term based on trading volume. the stocks were categorized into three parts (high, middle and low) at the outset. then, the relationship between excess return with three components such as cross-sectional risk, lead-lag effect and time-series pattern were examined based on jegadeesh and titman approach.the...