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Implications of Changes in the Global Water Industry's Competition Structure

Choi, DongWon - 2022

The water industry is newly rising future blue ocean market as deprivation of water is becoming a serious problem. However, the competition around the water industry is also getting tougher in presence of global conglomerates, extension of material & part enterprises and the emergence of new...

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Multiple policy instruments for sustainable water management in crop production : a modeling study for the Chinese Aksu-Tarim Region

Feike, Til; Henseler, Martin - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 135 (2017), pp. 42-54

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Domestic and international drivers of the demand for water resources in the context of water scarcity : a cross-country study

Gupta, Rakesh; Yan, Kejia; Singh, Tarlok; Mo, Di - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 11/255, pp. 1-28

Global warming, while increasing human demand for water, is reducing water availability by reducing runoff flows and the effective amount of water between seasons, making water scarcity a growing problem globally. Water management plays an important role in mitigating global warming, improving...

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Water scarcity and the impact of improved irrigation management : a CGE analysis

Calzadilla, Alvaro (contributor); … - 2008

We use the new version of the GTAP-W model to analyze the economy-wide impacts of enhanced irrigation efficiency. The … to improvements in irrigation efficiency in water-stressed regions is not beneficial for all. For water-stressed regions … and mostly negative. Global water savings are achieved. Not only regions where irrigation efficiency changes are able to …

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Water scarcity and the impact of improved irrigation management : a computable general equilibrium analysis

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S. J. - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 42 (2011) 3, pp. 305-323

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Corruption in Privatization and Governance Regimes

Molinari, M. Cristina - 2012

asymmetries: managers are privately informed of their efficiency in reducing costs (and quality) and only the decentralized agency …

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Welfare State and Life Satisfaction : Evidence from Public Health Care

Laamanen, Jani-Petri; Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2008

We examine the effect of publicly provided health care on welfare by combining local level data on public health care, and individual level data on life satisfaction. It is shown that relatively high expenditures in health care have a positive effect on individuals' life satisfaction in our...

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What Policy Space for Diaconal Institutions? Challenges From Public Procurement

Haugen, Hans Morten - 2020

Procurement processes with tender competition have been a preferred approach for engaging service providers in Norway. Even if the present Norwegian government finds it “essential that competition becomes an integral part of all public activity,” a simultaneous push for preserving the...

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On the Neo-Liberal Paradigm of Higher Education : An Apprehensive Note

Maharatna, Arup - 2016

The present paper consists of a modest attempt at tracing the trajectory of the post-war dominance of neo-liberal economic perspective on higher educational policy and finance with its far-reaching ramifications with respect to contemporary trends in educational outcomes and standard. It is...

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Public Goods, Private Partnerships, and Political Institutions

Bertelli, Anthony M. - 2018

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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