With public and traditional private funding avenues closed, government departments have sought contracts that do not disclose the full cost of borrowing, such as the Public鈥揚rivate Partnership (PPP) described in this case study. We unpack the utility contract filed with the provincial regulator to...
In each actual case, what is most important depends on the starting point – the status from which the improvements starts. This may give very different results according to the specific setting and context. This report gives other answers than the traditional project management literature and ...
Public financing is also critical which motivates the traditional feasibility studies to be supplemented with studies on social and economic impacts. Experiences can be drawn from the outline of previous studies in this field (e.g [1] and [2]). Common to these studies is that they are often...
California faces large costs in funding its public sector pension plans, and its governor has proposed replacing its traditional defined-benefit plans with a 401(k)-type defined-contribution plan. This proposal, which will probably go di... JG Kilgour - 《Compensation & Benefits Review》 被引量...
involve non-traditional donors, in particular civil society organizations and the private sector, in poverty reduction strategies; promote regional integration, especially as far as the creation of the price mitigation mechanism is concerned; and strengthen the capacity of the State to respond to social...
Although the Pandemic Fund is promoting a ‘horizontally integrated approach’, the concern is that it is replicating traditional top-down approaches where international funders and agencies and high-income countries set the PPR agenda and control how it is implemented [69]. These critiques are not...
Having grown up on the fringes of what was in effect a civil war, I have to mark the passing of the man who brought peace to this place. When I was growing up in Ireland in the 1980s , it was a tough and hard place at times. The nightly news brought updates on the ongoing turm...
This enables access to data resources that were once previously the domain of highway managers and devolves power to make transport decisions to individuals at a grassroots level. In a period of austerity and disinvestment by the public sector in the UK and elsewhere, this transfer of ...
In the longer run the fundamental shift in business and industry away form traditional manufacturing and service toward knowledge intensive service and products may become decisive for the success of these regions. 展开 关键词: cryptography digital signature authenticated encryption self-certified public ...
The disappointing performance of conventional public sector reforms in developing countries has led to the rise of 'new' approaches seeking to overcome traditional bureaucratic barriers to change: leadership-focused interventions like the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI); accountability-focused initiatives ...