Sustainable Infrastructure: New Chapter for China-LAC Infrastructure Cooperation

Mueller, Sven-Uwe; Fan, Li; Xiang, Zhang; Shengping, Shang; Zhang, Tianyi

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“…Most prominently, those reasons include increasing complexity with multiple stakeholders (Sovacool and Cooper, 2013), underestimations of risks (Kahneman and Tversky, 1979), insufficient risk management during project implementation (Rothengatter, 2017), and strategic deception in the form of purposeful cost underestimations to outbid competing offers (Flyvbjerg, 2008). Although much research has already been conducted on project performance determinants, it also becomes clear from examination of this research that the canon of “international best practices” in infrastructure governance and sustainable infrastructure provision is still based on findings from industrialised and democratic Western contexts (Haber, 2016; Mueller et al, 2016).…”

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Socio-Economic Development and Infrastructure Cost Performance in China: Comparing Transport and Energy Sectors

Rabe

Kostka

Habich-Sobiegalla

2020

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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Socio-economic development is often linked to efficient infrastructure provision. In China, the government has rolled out ambitious infrastructure projects as part of its national development strategy. There is much to praise about China’s infrastructure provision, such as its remarkable scale and speed of infrastructure delivery. However, based on studying 153 infrastructure cases between 1983 and 2018 and two in-depth case studies, we find that China’s infrastructure performance is not as positive as often assumed. We show that infrastructure projects continuously arrive significantly over budget. We argue that this cost performance depends – similar to Western countries – on inaccurately anticipating technical hindrances and geographical challenges. In addition, however, we identify another important and so far less discussed project performance determinant specifically relevant to the Chinese context: population resettlements and land acquisition.

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