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Luxembourg : 2021 Article IV consultation : press release; staff report; and statement by the Executive Director for Luxembourg
Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2021
The economic impact of the pandemic has been much milder than initially foreseen, still the outlook remains challenging. The economy, dominated by financial services, adapted quickly to telework and benefited from unprecedented policy support, both domestically and globally. Uncertainty is...
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Sierra Leone : technical assistance report : public investment management assessment
Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2021
Sierra Leone has made significant strides to rebuild its public infrastructure after the devastating civil war, but the … desperate infrastructure needs remain. At the end of the conflict in 2002, the country was left with virtually no infrastructure …. Redevelopment of public infrastructure was ignited by the mining boom, which started in the late 2000s. Over the period 2008a-18 …
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Economic analysis and infrastructure investment
Glaeser, Edward L. (ed.); Poterba, James M. (ed.) - Economics of infrastructure investment <Veranstaltung> …; … - 2021
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Public-private partnerships, government guarantees, and fiscal risk
Hemming, Richard (contributor) - Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2006
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Market and Public Provision in the Presence of Human Capital Externalities
De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper suggests that human capital externalities are important in determining whether goods and services should be privately or publicly provided. We study situations where that the cost incurred by an individual provider for providing quality is affected by the human capital of her...
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'Build It or Not': Normative and Positive Theories of Public-Private Partnerships
Martimort, David; Pouyet, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
same firm when a better design of the infrastructure helps also to save on operating costs (positive externality … environments where the quality of the infrastructure may be hard to describe in advance, we isolate conditions under which either …
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Namibia : technical assistance report : assessing and managing fiscal risks from state-owned entities and public-private partnerships
Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2018
This Technical Assistance report discusses measures proposed to assess and manage fiscal risks from state-owned entities and public-private partnerships in Namibia. Fiscal risks from public entities (PEs) materialize when funding requirements are higher than expected or revenues shortfalls...
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The Public-Private Mix in the Modern Health Care System - Concepts, Issues, and Policy Options Revisited
Chernichovsky, Dov - 2000
combined system' (e.g., Australia) where, contrary to the segregated system' (e.g., Canada), the same providers are sanctioned …
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Least-Present-Value-of-Revenue Auctions and Highway Franchising
Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. - 1998
In recent years several countries have started massive highway franchising programs auctioned to private firms. In these auctions, the regulator typically sets the franchise term and firms bid on tolls, or, alternatively, the regulator sets tolls and the winner is the firm that asks for the...
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Intra-National, Intra-Continental, and Intra-Planetary PPP
Engel, Charles - 1997
This paper builds a model of adjustment toward PPP for a panel of real exchange rates. The model eliminates some inconsistencies in previous models, which implied a model for the real exchange rate of country B relative to country C that was not commensurate with the posited model of the real...
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