Where do we stand on transport infrastructure deregulation and public-private partnership? [PDF]
The evolution of transport public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing and developed countries since the early 1990s seems to be following a similar path: private initiatives work for a while but after a shock to the sector takes place the public ...
Estache, Antonio, Serebrisky, Tomas
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The Institutional Dimension of Public Financial Governance and Public Sector External Debt in Guinea [PDF]
, 2019 Through an institutional approach, this article seeks to address the problem of public finance governance and the external debt of the public sector in Guinea.
KONATE, Sidiki, SMOUNI, Rachid
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Shortfall Minimization for Game Options in Discrete Time [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 We prove existence of a self-financing strategy which minimizes shortfall for game options in discrete ...
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Escaping from poverty trap: a choice between government transfer payments and public services
Global Health Research and Policy, 2017 Background Anti-poverty has always been an important issue to be settled. What policies should be selected to help individuals escaping from the poverty trap: by directly offering transfer payments or indirectly providing public services?
Sixia Chen +3 more
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Information-based instruments for improved urban management [PDF]
The task of urban managers is to ensure the provision of basic urban services, such as water, waste removal, security, transport, and an environment conducive to economic activity, while maintaining fiscal sustainability of city operations. City managers
Deichman, Uwe +3 more
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Social sector expenditures and rainy-day funds [PDF]
Gonzalez and Paqueo examine the effects of budget stabilization funds--often called rainy-day funds--on the volatility of social spending and, for contrast, on nonsocial sector spending. They analyze the rainy-day funds of U.S. states.
Gonzalez, Christian Y. +1 more
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Does the UK Local Finance Improvement Trust (Lift)Initiative Improve Risk Management in Public-Private Procurement? [PDF]
, 2008 The UK government introduced the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and, latterly, the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) in an attempt to improve public service provision.
Beck, M., Brown, S., Fitzsimmons, D.A.
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Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 This paper explores how theories of the planning fallacy and the outside view may be used to conduct quality control and due diligence in project management. First, a much-neglected issue in project management is identified, namely that the front-end estimates of costs and benefits--used in the business cases, cost-benefit analyses, and social and ...
arxiv
Accounting and management control in local government educational units of the public finance system in Poland [PDF]
, 2015 Anna Zienkiewicz
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Grants and debt forgiveness in Africa : a descriptive analysis [PDF]
The authors analyze the effects of bilateral debt forgiveness on 32 low-income countries in Africa (1984-93). Asking whether it makes a difference for recipient countries to receive pure grants rather that official development assistance (ODA) debt ...
Hernandez, Leonardo, Katada, Saori N.
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