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Delhi Jal Board : Wastewater Management PPP Options Study
World Bank - 2013
Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is exploring options for public private partnerships (PPP) in the wastewater services as part of a strategy to expand sewerage access and to meet its environmental obligations. The purpose of this report is to identify those models of partnership which are most relevant to...
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Symbolic public goods and the coordination of collective action : a comparison of local development in India and Indonesia
Rao, Vijayendra - 2005
. In this paper, building on work in social theory, the author argues that common property can also be social … understanding collective action. He illustrates the point by contrasting how conceptions of nationalism in Indonesia and India …-help) that was both internalized and coercively enforced. India emphasized democratic decentralization through the panchayat …
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Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?
Murgai, Rinku - 2005
? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …
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Toward a microeconomics of growth
Burgess, Robin - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523076
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Power System Planning in India : Incorporating Environmental Externality Costs and Benefits
World Bank - 2012
This paper has been prepared in accordance with the terms of reference for a study on power system planning in India … as in India and compares the figures available. It also comments on the validity of the external cost estimates available … and the use made of them in power system planning and regulation both outside and inside India. The structure is as …
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A system of international comparisons of gross product and purchasing power
Kravis, Irving B. (contributor) - 1975
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Does higher openness cause more real exchange rate volatility ?
Calderón, César - 2009
"The "New Open Economy Macroeconomics" argues that: (a) non-monetary factors have gained importance in explaining exchange rate volatility, and (b) trade and financial openness may have a potential role of mitigating and/or amplifying real and nominal shocks to real exchange rates. The goal of...
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The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty
Chen, Shaohua - 2008
"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521056
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The impact of the strong euro on the real effective exchange rates of the two francophone African CFA zones
Zafar, Ali - 2005
"The author estimates the degree of misalignment of the CFA franc since the introduction of the euro in 1999. Using a relative purchasing power parity-based methodology, he develops a monthly panel time series dataset for both the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) zone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522449
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Trade policy, trade volumes, and plant-level productivity in Colombian manufacturing industries
Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2003
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