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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the use of commercial‐in‐confidence arrangements within the public sector allows the deliberate manipulation of accounting figures to generate support for the privatisation agenda. Design/methodology/approach – A case study is...
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approach to examine changes in the New Zealand electricity industry over the past four decades. As the approach is a flexible …
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/methodology/approach – Unlike the attempts made in other African countries such as Kenya and Tanzania, the case of Ghana is interesting because of ….” Research limitations/implications – The paper shows that within new democracies such as Ghana policy‐making requires the …
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Northern Ghana still has vast supplies of undeveloped land, with enormous potential for commercial agriculture, agro … region and their implications for investment mobilization. The evidence suggests that the chequered history of land tenure …. Government commitment and investment incentive packages, along with international financial and technical support should also …
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This paper describes a new method of utility pricing – Variable Unit Pricing (VUP) – that results in both economic efficiency and cost recovery for a variety of supply situations faced by water utilities. The main advantage of VUP – compared to Increasing Block Rates – is that its parameters...
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Helped by somewhat limited inward investment from the West and a programme of wide‐scale privatization, reform in the …
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Provides a critical overview of the role of foreign direct investment in the transition to market economies in Eastern … Europe, and Poland in particular. Patterns of investment are examined in the wider context of changes in the global pattern … investment critical for updating obsolete capital and bringing Western business expertise. It is suggested that firms have been …
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electricity metering as well as remote load control alternatives. This paper presents an energy meter reader implemented with a …
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electricity storage is not currently available which places a contingency risk on electricity generating capacity. More so …, maintaining system stability where solar and wind play a significant role in generating electricity is a growing challenge facing …
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