Infrastructuring : the key to achieving economic growth, productivity, and quality of life /
A. Coskun Samli.
- New York : Springer, c2011.
- xviii, 109 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Developing infrastructures for economic progress, market development, and entrepreneurship -- The forgotten power behind the scenes: deteriorating global infrastructure -- Optimizing infrastructure development: difficult but necessary -- Developing an action plan for infrastructures: from vision to action -- Infrastructure and productivity: an uncharted territory -- Changing global competitiveness: the role of infrastructure -- Deeper foundations of infrastrucutre development -- The choice between present versus future role of infrastructure -- Infrastructure development plans -- Connecting infrastructure to entrepreneurship -- Global leadership begins with infrastructure -- Domestic productivity or export support -- An open letter to the serious reader of this book.