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Regulating Local Government Financing Vehicles and Public-Private Partnerships in China
Jin, Hui - 2016
In this paper, we argue that there is much room for China to strengthen its regulatory framework for public-private partnerships (PPPs). We show that infrastructure projects carried out through local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) were largely unregulated PPPs, and significant fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977776
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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013
of water pollution deriving from mismanaged drilling and fracturing, absence of adequate regulation framework and … industry standards, entailing consequences on social stability and environmental degradation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328696
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The gender education gap in China: the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William Stanley - 2009
We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a … girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her … household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276689
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A comparison between shale gas in China and unconventional fuel development in the United States : health, water and environmental risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013
of water pollution deriving from mismanaged drilling and fracturing, absence of adequate regulation framework and … industry standards, entailing consequences on social stability and environmental degradation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010203405
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Water tariff setting and its welfare implications : evidence from cities in the People's Republic of China
Jiang, Yi; Calub, Renz Adrian T.; Zheng, Xiaoting - 2019
We develop a framework to analyze urban water tariff setting and its welfare implications and apply it to a panel of … cities in the People's Republic of China in the 2000s. First, we find that peer cities' water tariff levels have a … estimate water demand functions, which yields elasticity estimates of around − 0.41 for both residential and industrial sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020526
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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
of water pollution deriving from mismanaged drilling and fracturing, absence of adequate regulation framework and … industry standards, entailing consequences on social stability and environmental degradation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732280
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The Gender Education Gap in China: The Power of Water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a … girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her … household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703826
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
families to education, health and other social services must continue to improve, in particular via further changes to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231018
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
families to education, health and other social services must continue to improve, in particular via further changes to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276950
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State Capacity and China's Economic Performance
Cheng, Hua - 2017
suggest that social stability objectives, rather than economic growth, drive public sector over-staffing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946239