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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are often advocated as an effective mechanism for delivering water and sanitation … of private companies, NGOs and community organizations. The analysis concentrates on the water sector but its …
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This study uses a stochastic frontier parametrical approach to analyze the inefficiency of firms in the water industry …
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This paper compares water and sanitation services in municipalities that entered into a concession arrangement with a … explore five variables of interest: (i) water coverage; (ii) sewage collection; (iii) sewage treatment; (iv) average tariff …; and (v) water losses. Using an empirical strategy and making improvements over previous literature, after controlling for …
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States Army Corps of Engineers, is charged with managing water storage throughout much of the United States for multiple …. This article examines the Corps’ history in managing this water storage and shows that the Corp is currently ill equipped …
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Debido a las crisis fiscales y productivas que asolaron a los países de América Latina y del Caribe durante la década de 1980, se buscó la participación de agentes privados en los sectores de agua potable y saneamiento. Hasta esa década, el sector estaba regulado y administrado por el...
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infrastructures and the challenges they pose to local infrastructure policy with special reference to the case of water cooperatives …
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This paper recounts how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic at executing its core public health mission of readiness and response. The paper then evaluates the current state of the agency’s workforce and organizational culture, noting a...
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The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) should be restructured in order to carry out its main role of mobilizing private funds for infrastructure finance. It should become more private sector-driven and market responsive. Combined with an effective government framework for public investment,...
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access to safe water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa remains high. This paper shows that a radical reorientation of …
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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