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The theoretical and empirical literature on water supply and sewerage liberalization is reviewed in this paper in order … water utilities is finally provided …
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Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...
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The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and … water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter … and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water, energy and climate coordination can occur through international …
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multinational groups may not interact with domestic constituencies in the same way as the existing ones, thus disrupting the social …
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The European Commission's (EU Commission) Sustainable Growth Action Programme aims to transform national economies in the European Union towards a Green Economy. This is linked to the aspiration to achieve the EU climate protection goals and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United...
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This paper argues that accountability in organizations should not be constrained to responsibilities alone, but it must also comprise the previous commitments without which responsibilities remain meaningless. It also asserts that transparency should not be merely predicated upon the production...
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We assembled a large panel of project-level technical and financial data and country-level economic, institutional, political, and governance variables to assess the determinants of private financing of infrastructure in emerging markets and developing economies. Controlling for economic...
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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become an essential vehicle for infrastructure development worldwide. Theoretical arguments primarily focus on build-operate-transfer (BOT) agreements as a canonical form of PPP, though they rarely discuss the political underpinnings of governments'...
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off poor sections of the population from the use of vital goods, such as water. This paper deals with this alleged … antagonism and shows how prices could be designed in a fair and social way. …
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