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present a status report about the methods, strengths, and weaknesses of infrastructure financing in Asia and the Pacific at …
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Where they exist, tariffs for water supply and sanitation services face a tension between different policy objectives, such as ensuring the financial sustainability of service provision and ensuring access to all, including vulnerable and poor social groups. Governments (local and national)...
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several issues addressed by the G20, including infrastructure financing and tax cooperation, are highly relevant for …
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Historically, governments have played the predominant role in owning and operating infrastructure facilities such as schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, railways, ports, telecommunications networks, and water and electricity supply facilities. However, fiscal policy constraints, growing...
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This Chapter provides the context of climate change and infrastructure financing in Australia. It commences with an … country and related climate impacts. Financing infrastructure for climate change and adaptation is discussed next with … internal funding mechanisms used in the country across various levels of government and overseas financing. An analysis of …
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While climate change has long called for a green shift in our economies, the current energy crisis leads to an increased urgency when it comes to transforming the energy and transportation systems. The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which was adopted to support recovery from the...
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The investigation focused on a financing problem, through the analysis of historical data, in a period of 8 years given …
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Countries in the ACP region will face significant challenges in the years to come as they try to step up economic growth, deal with increasingly integrated world markets and meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially those focused on hunger and poverty. These efforts will take...
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Adequate and efficient infrastructure is required for sustainable economic growth and improved quality of life. In this paper we examine the problems faced by infrastructural sectors in India in the new millennium, both at sectoral and aggregate levels. Policies for improvement are also suggested.
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