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Advances in human development are closely linked to increasing access to water and sanitation services in developing … narrow to explain success or failure in the provision of water and sanitation services. By shifting the attention towards the … water and sanitation services and presents empirical evidence for their influence on access to services and internal …
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Public water utilities have increasingly turned to increasing block rate price structures to reduce water consumption … and signal the high environmental costs of water supply. Hsu evaluates the impact of a new and substantially higher price … those who consume very high quantities of water. The public water utility in Seattle added such a rate to its existing price …
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Most of the billions of people without drinking water or sanitation are very poor. While private-sector companies are … becoming increasingly involved with infrastructure provision in developing countries, their contracts for water and sanitation …
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Policy and planning for the provision of water supply and sanitation services in developing countries. Reviews …
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In the past decades telecommunications markets all over the world have changed immensely. Liberalization and … the determinants of telecommunications investments and presents two possible solutions to the investment problem. The …
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We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to...
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This dissertation is a collection of four research papers written during my doctoral studies at the University of Konstanz between October 2004 and November 2008. These papers are empirical studies dealing with different aspects in the field of university economics. The focus of the first two...
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Die Arbeit untersucht die Anwendbarkeit des HarrisTodaro Modells für Land-Stadt-Migrations-Prozesse inEntwicklungsländern. Dabei geht es nicht nur um das Basismodel,sondern auch um die Modell-Erweiterungen, die internationalenHandel, einen städtischen informellen Sektor und die Aspekte...
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Mit der Gründung der WTO am 1.1.1995 trat das TRIPS-Übereinkommen in Kraft. Es verpflichtet alle WTO Mitglieder zur Umsetzung von Rechten zum Schutze des geistigen Eigentums, welche dem Niveau industrialisierter Staaten nahezu entsprechen. Die Stärkung internationaler Immaterialgüterrechte...
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, investment and savings rate, individual wage income and GDP. Thus, the ACE tax reform would make a positive contribution to …
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