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Do Private Water Utility Operators Care about Regulatory Agencies in Developing Countries?

Bertomeu-Sanchez, Salvador; CamoS, Daniel; Estache, Antonio - 2017

This paper shows that the creation of an independent regulatory agency is often not a necessary or sufficient condition to help attract private participation in the operation and financing of the water and sanitation sector in developing countries. However, the odds of an impact are...

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Blue Water and the Consequences of Alternative Food Security Policies in the Middle East and North Africa for Water Security

Larson, Donald F. - 2013

In the Middle East and North Africa, food security and water security are tightly entwined. In particular, choices …

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Scarperation : An Empirical Inquiry into the Role of Scarcity in Fostering Cooperation between International River Riparians

Dinar, Shlomi; Dinar, Ariel; Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep - 2012

The environment and security literature has argued that freshwater scarcity often leads to inter-state conflict, and possibly acute violence. The contention, however, ignores the long history of hydro-political cooperation exemplified by hundreds of documented agreements. Building on a theory...

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Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience?

Blankespoor, Brian; De Stefano, Lucia; Dinar, Shlomi; … - 2016

Climate-driven water variability is a natural phenomenon observed across river basins, but predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental change of this kind may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus....

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Climate Change, Conflict, and Cooperation : Global Analysis of the Resilience of International River Treaties to Increased Water Variability

Blankespoor, Brian; De Stefano, Lucia; Dinar, Shlomi; … - 2014

Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. Increased...

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The Impact of Syrians Refugees on the Turkish Labor Market

Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Wagner, Mathis - 2015

Civil war in Syria has resulted in more than four million refugees fleeing the country, of which 1.8 million have found … refuge in Turkey, making it the largest refugee-hosting country worldwide. This paper combines newly available data on the … 2014 distribution of Syrian refugees across subregions of Turkey with the Turkish Labour Force Survey, to assess the impact …

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What Are the Impacts of Syrian Refugees on Host Community Welfare in Turkey? : A Subnational Poverty Analysis

Azevedo, Joao Pedro; Inan, Osman Kaan; Yang, Judy S. - 2016

In recent years, Turkey has been host to more than two million Syrians seeking refuge. Initially concentrated in the …

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Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of the Islamic State on the Levant

Ianchovichina, Elena; Ivanic, Maros - 2014

Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic … effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the Islamic State on the Levant. Syria and Iraq bear the brunt of the direct … Syria and Iraq doubles the welfare losses. All these countries are foregoing opportunities to expand intra-Levant trade and …

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The Handshake : Why Do Governments and Firms Sign Private Sector Participation Deals? Evidence from the Water and Sanitation Sector in Developing Countries

Jensen, Olivia; Blanc-Brude, Fr??d??ric - 2012

This paper uses a new dataset, "WATSAN," of private sector participation (PSP) projects for water and sanitation in developing countries to examine the determinants of the number of projects signed for each country between 1990 and 2004. The new dataset improves on existing sources, in...

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How "Natural" are Natural Monopolies in the Water Supply and Sewerage Sector? Case Studies from Developing and Transition Economies

Nauges, C??line; Berg, Caroline H. van den - 2012

Using data from the International Benchmarking NETwork database, the authors estimate measures of density and scale economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic development, piped water and sewerage coverage, and...

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