IE&IFS: Concepts and Practice · Part A: Indian Economic Architecture

Chapter 3: Infrastructure, including social infrastructure

Power, transport, digital rails, hospitals and schools: what they are, who pays, and how banks lend to them.

Buyers of the e-book, or of the print copy, which includes it, read the whole chapter. Everyone can read the free sample, pages 1 to 24 of the e-book.

In this chapter

• 3.1What infrastructure isp. 31
• 3.2Energy, transport and digital railsp. 32
• 3.3Social infrastructurep. 33
• 3.4Who pays: the Budget, DFIs and marketsp. 34
• 3.5PPP models and the bank’s rulesp. 35
• Exam traps and quick checksp. 36
• Practice: 16 questions in three roundsp. 37
• Answers, with every wrong option explainedp. 39
• Make it stickp. 41
• Chapter 3 on one pagep. 42

Corrections and updates

None for this chapter so far. Every correction to the book, and any rule that changes after its date, is listed on the errata page.