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Nowadays, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have resulted into a world-wide instrument for governments facing insufficient resources for growing public investment needs. Despite the general interest surrounding the cooperation between public bodies and private companies, the tendency of...
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Focuses on pro-poor job creation for slum dwellers as an effective method to reduce urban poverty, especially national policies favouring employment-intensive growth. Discusses public-private partnerships and how to create quality jobs in the local, small-scale private sector, illustrated by...
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-carbon climate resilient (LCR) infrastructure, in both developed and developing world contexts. LCR infrastructure is defined …, recognizing the interdependencies between infrastructure systems, and the opportunities to tackle climate change adaptation and … mitigation simultaneously in national strategic infrastructure plans. Review of the performance of OECD countries in reducing …
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This paper deals with the optimal provision of infrastructure by means of public-private partnership contracts.In the … economic literature infrastructure is characterized as a large, indivisible and non-rival capital good that produces services … for its users.Users can be both consumers and producers. Consumers may derive utility from infrastructure, either …
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This study presents two case studies, each on a current initiative of contracting for primary health services in Brazil, one for the state of Bahia, the other for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The two initiatives are not linked and their implementation has independently sprung from a search for...
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Using an incomplete contract framework, we analyze the consequences of allotment in public procurement. Allotment aims at dividing a public service into several lots that can be awarded to different operators. This increases the number of bidders during the competitive tendering, as well as it...
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Hungary's counties and municipalities face difficult challenges. Participation in cost-cutting structural reforms initiated by the central government means cutbacks to administrative overheads and tough decisions in public services. At the same time, there are also challenges in modernising...
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The paper is dealing with the problem of so called "municipal" firms. I define them as the firms, which are based on commercial law but are owned by municipalities. The municipal firms are often used for providing services in the Czech Republic. However, this type of firm is connected with a lot...
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The aim of this paper is to highlight the Slovene and EU regulation of social care service for the elderly from the view of possible implementation of public–private partnerships (PPPs) institutes in this sector. The authors discuss the economic rationale for implementing of PPP in the...
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In the article the methodical approaches existing in international practice to the estimation of the public-private partnership efficiency are analyzed, the features of the main ones are released, and also the possibilities of their use in Ukraine are explored and recommendations of their...
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