"You're eating away little by little at the infrastructure and effectiveness of government," said Philip Joyce, a professor at the University of Maryland.
India remains vulnerable to spikes in oil and commodity prices, the rating agency said, and although the budget contains measures aimed at encouraging infrastructure projects, the effectiveness of attracting "much-needed investment is uncertain at this stage".
While intensive structural and non-structural repair is required worldwide to compensate the current infrastructure deficit, repair effectiveness is jeopardized by poor durability, compatibility, and bond.
"We argue that such a divergence is unsustainable," according to the report, which was based on a survey of 1,947 of Harvard Business School alumni around the globe, and which highlighted problems with the U.S. education system, transport infrastructure, and the effectiveness of the political system.
In this paper, we examine the role of infrastructure practices in the effectiveness of JIT practices from three perspectives universal, contingency, and configurational with data from a study sample of 110 plants.
The modern government is ranked by the Pew Center on the States with an A− in terms of its efficiency, effectiveness, and infrastructure.
A compact, light-weight, battery-operated, low-cost fluorescence microscope has the potential to enable diagnosis and screening of M. tuberculosis in remote settings with limited infrastructure, providing the proven effectiveness of fluorescence microscopy to the point-of-care.
PD is practised for AKI treatment mostly due to its cost effectiveness, minimal infrastructure requirement and in rural areas where access to power, clean water supply and facilities for water treatment are lacking as in many developing countries where renal replacement centers are mainly located in major cities and towns [ 10, 11].
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 aims to control cost by transforming healthcare delivery through comparative effectiveness research, new infrastructure models to deliver more cost effective and coordinated care, and incentives based upon changes in reimbursement [ 35, 36].
Official reports state that much-needed repairs on the embankments had been delayed for a number of years, severely weakening the effectiveness of the infrastructure.
