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Delays and cost overruns in infrastructure projects: Extent, causes and remedies [1]

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This study, based on a large dataset of 894 projects from 17 infrastructure sectors, attempts to answer certain important questions on time and cost overruns in publicly-funded infrastructure projects: How common and how large are the overruns? What are the essential causes? Are contractual and institutional failures among the significant causes?

Publication Date: 
22/05/2010
Ram Singh [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
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Economy [4], India [5], Economic and Political Weekly [3], Infrastructure Development [6], Ram Singh [2]
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