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Tapped Out: Threats to the Human Right to Water in the Urban United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the United States today, the goal of universal water service is slipping out of reach. Water costs are rising across the country, forcing many individuals to forgo running water or sanitation, or to sacrifice other essential human rights.
Amirhadji, Jason   +8 more
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Facilitating Low-Carbon Investments: Lessons from Natural Gas [PDF]

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Decarbonisation of energy and transport infrastructure requires significant private sector investments. The natural gas industry has demonstrated such large scale private sector infrastructure investment over the last decades, typically using long-term ...
Anne Neumann, Karsten Neuhoff
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Why do educated mothers matter? A model of parental help [PDF]

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The paper investigates the role of mothers in affecting childrens' performance at school. It develops a theoretical model in which household is treated as an individual, whose utility depends on the performance at school of the student and on consumption.
Alessandro Vaglio, Luciano Canova
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A note on the stop-loss preservin property of Wang's premium principle. [PDF]

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A desirable property for a premium principle is that it preserves stop-loss order. In this paper, we present a simple proof for the stop-loss preserving property of Wang's class of premium principles, in the case that the distribution functions involved ...
Dhaene, Jan, Goovaerts, Marc, Ribas, C
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