Download or read book Comparing the Performance of Public and Private Water Companies in the Asia and Pacific Region written by Antonio Estache and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efficiency indicators can be useful to regulators assessing the efficiency of an operation and the wedge between tariff and minimum costs. They allow regulators to control for factors over which the operators have no control (such as diversity of water sources, or water quality or user characteristics).
Download or read book Comparing the Performance of Public and Private Water Companies in the Asia Region written by Antonio Estache and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Different is the Efficiency of Public and Private Water Companies in Asia written by Antonio Estache and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Private Partnerships for Urban Water Utilities written by Philippe Marin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Water Utilities: A Review of Experiences in Developing Countries' analyzes the market growth of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the developing world since 1990, and the performance of more than 65 large water PPP projects representing more than 100 million people for access, service quality, operational efficiency, and tariff levels. Although a relatively small portion of the water utilities in the developing world are operated under PPPs (about 7 percent in 2007), the urban population served by private water operators has grown every year since 1990. Despite many difficulties encountered by PPP projects and a few contract terminations, a large majority of contracts awarded since 1990 are still in place. The track record for improving service and efficiency reaffirms the value of PPPs to help turn around poorly performing water utilities, even though the level of private financing did not match initial expectations. Over time, a more realistic market has developed, the number of private investors from developing countries has grown, and contract designs have become more pragmatic concerning risk allocations between partners. The water sector has many features that set it apart from other infrastructure sectors. This book suggests the need for careful consideration of those specificities to successfully involve private operators. Although concessions with private financing have worked in a few places, contractual arrangements that combine private operation with public financing appear to be the most sustainable option in many countries. Policy makers, stakeholders, and donors need to remain heavily engaged in the water sector, especially in the poorest countries and during a global financial crisis. This book contributes to a better understanding of the various options to tackle the many challenges of providing water and sanitation services to urban populations in the developing world.
Download or read book Water Utilities Data Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparing Public and Private Water Companies written by Robert Francis Hawley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategy and Performance of Water Supply and Sanitation Providers written by Marco Schouten and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuous growth in the demand for water supply and sanitation services has posed decision makers with the challenge to discover new, and to adapt existing, institutions. Since the last two decades, the most prominent institutional change for the water and sanitation sector is neo-liberalism. Neo-liberalism manifests itself in the water sector
Download or read book Prospective Deficits and the Asian Currency Crisis written by Craig Burnside and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent Asian currency crisis was caused by large prospective fiscal deficits associated with implicit bailout guarantees to failing banking systems. Absent the political will to raise taxes or cut spending, governments must resort to seignorage revenues to pay for the bailout of the banking system. In a world of forward-looking agents, this makes a currency crisis inevitable.
Download or read book Policy Research Working Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wage and Productivity Gaps written by Dorte Verner and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana's labor market is segmented, and the workforce adds more to firm level productivity than its cost would suggest. The more training and education workers have, the higher their wages and the greater their productivity. In short, investments in human capital improves productivity.
Download or read book The Intriguing Relation Between Adult Minimum Wage and Child Labour written by Kaushik Basu and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising adult wages through a minimum wage law can in some circumstances have the paradoxical effect of increasing the amount of child labor. In other words, using minimum wage legislation as a form of international labor standard can exacerbate problems of child labor.
Download or read book Corruption Public Finances and the Unofficial Economy written by Simon Johnson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sample of 49 Latin America, OECD, and transition economies, it is the ineffective and discretionary administration of tax and regulatory regimes--not higher tax rates alone--as well as corruption, that increases the size of the unofficial economy. And countries with a large unofficial economy tend to grow more slowly.
Download or read book A Governance Approach to Urban Water Public Private Partnerships written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication explores the challenge of providing universal access to water and sanitation in fast-growing cities in Asia and the Pacific. It highlights the potential of well-managed public–private partnerships (PPPs) to help meet this challenge and discusses lessons from seven water sector PPPs in the region. It explains how countries can strengthen water governance, foster enabling environments, and design tailored strategies to promote successful PPPs. The report emphasizes that governments can work with the private sector to enhance value for money and provide equitable urban water and sanitation access that will help improve lives.
Download or read book World Bank Policy Research Bulletin written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The East Asian Crisis written by Warwick J. McKibbin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water in Asian Cities written by Asian Development Bank and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing that safe and adequate water supplies are an essential component of fighting poverty and disease, the ADB Water for All Publication series focuses on understanding the water issues facing poor people in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific region. This document summarizes both a comprehensive study on water in 18 Asian cities and a regional workshop held to present the findings of the study to representatives of civil society and the media and examine the role these groups play in finding solutions to improve access and quality of water for the urban poor.
Download or read book How Has Regionalism in the 1990s Affected Trade written by Isidro Soloaga and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results of a modified gravity model suggests that the "new wave" of regionalism has not boosted intra-bloc trading significantly. Trade liberalization in Latin America did have a positive impact on the imports of bloc members, although MERCOSUR's exports did poorly over the mid-1990s.
