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The Evolution of Enterprise Reform in Africa: From State-owned Enterprises to Private Participation in Infrastructure — and Back?

Nellis, John - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

public. The findings of recent studies in Africa suggest that PPI should not be jettisoned, and that the more productive path …

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Strategic Network Interdiction

Hong, Sunghoon - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

We develop a strategic model of network interdiction in a non-cooperative game of flow. An adversary, endowed with a bounded quantity of bads, chooses a flow specifying a plan for carrying bads through a network from a base to a target. Simultaneously, an agency chooses a blockage specifying a...

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HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa: Trends and Challenges

Luboobi, Livingstone S.; Mugisha, Joseph Y.T. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Three-quarters of the world’s AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs …, testing facilities or even basic preventative health care. One of the major factors inhibiting medical professionals in Africa … submit designs for a mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic. The pandemic is changing the demographic structure of Africa and wiping …

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Privatization in Africa: What has happened? What is to be done?

Nellis, John - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Sub-Saharan African states urgently need expanded and more dynamic private sectors, more efficient and effective infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. Privatization is one way to address these problems. But African states have...

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Why Are the Stakes So High? Misconceptions and Misunderstandings in China’s Global Quest for Energy Security

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

China’s global quest for resources, in particular oil and natural gas, has received unprecedented worldwide attention and scrutiny. This is partly because of China’s own high-profile, active energy diplomacy, its national oil companies’ acquisitions in the key exporting regions of oil and...

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Policies and Practices of Low Carbon City Development in China

Wang, Can; Lin, Jie; Cai, Wenjia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to most CO2 emissions. In particular, given unprecedented urbanization, cities will play an even greater role in shaping energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the...

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Programs, Prices and Policies Towards Energy Conservation and Environmental Quality in China

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China’s efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety...

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A Tale of Three Countries: Italian, Spanish and Swiss Manufacturing Operations in China

Gattai, Valeria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

In this paper we investigate the choice of FDI versus joint-venture, made by Italian, Spanish and Swiss multinationals in China, as shaped by the risk of Dissipation of Intangible Assets. Probit estimates, based on an entirely new firm-level dataset, constructed by the author, show that FDI is...

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Climate Change: National and Local Policy Opportunities in China

Teng, Fei; Gu, Alun - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

Climate Change poses a wide range of potentially very severe threats in China. This aggravates the existing vulnerability of China and is one of the big challenges faced by the Chinese government. Adaptation programmes and projects are being developed and implemented at national and local level....

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Inflationary Effect of Oil-Price Shocks in an Imperfect Market: A Partial Transmission Input-output Analysis

Wu, Libo; Li, Jing; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper aims to examine the impacts of oil-price shocks on China’s price levels. To that end, we develop a partial transmission input-output model that captures the uniqueness of the Chinese market. We hypothesize and simulate price control, market factors and technology substitution - the...

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