Showing 1 - 10 of 75
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516444
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003357196
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124298
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136716
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919844
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604051
This remote mission provided the authorities with advice in fiscal risk management. The mission covered three interrelated topics: (i) the Public Finance and Expenditure Management (PFEM) Law and fiscal risks oversight and management; (ii) the Stated-Owned Corporations (SOC); and (iii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516522
This report summarizes key findings and recommendations of two off-site visits made by Mr. Benoit Wiest, Public Financial Management Advisor at METAC, and Ms. Katja Funke, Expert, between December 2020 and April 2021. The mission worked with the Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) unit to develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168888
This article examines how the shale oil revolution has shaped the evolution of U.S. crude oil and gasoline prices. It puts the evolution of shale oil production into historical perspective, highlights uncertainties about future shale oil production, and cautions against the view that the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145394