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States Army Corps of Engineers, is charged with managing water storage throughout much of the United States for multiple …. This article examines the Corps’ history in managing this water storage and shows that the Corp is currently ill equipped …
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Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state department of transportation (DOT) and the road builders...
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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. …
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heavily weighted toward mathematics, social sciences, and data analytics. As these latter disciplines' innovative outputs are …
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This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure spending bill in a neoclassical growth model. We add to the literature by considering a more detailed tax structure, different types of infrastructure spending and linkages between...
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In recent years, several U.S. government agencies have pioneered the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies to improve the efficiency and accuracy of their 'responsibility determinations' (reviews of, among other things, contractor representations and certifications,...
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This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure spending bill in a neoclassical growth model. We add to the literature by considering a more detailed tax structure, different types of infrastructure spending and linkages between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307758
approaches to improving water management, i.e., the establishment of water markets and the privatisation of water utilities, by …A number of countries face water shortages because they need to make some basic changes in their water management …. Policy options do exist. Most of them share the objective of treating water and water services as an economic good, by …
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In the United States, the two principal modes of producing local government services are in-house provision by government employees and contracting out to private suppliers, also known as privatization. We examine empirically how U.S. counties choose the mode of providing services. The evidence...
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