Public Banks Public Water

Author : Thomas Marois,David A. McDonald
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000842425

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Public Banks, Public Water by Thomas Marois,David A. McDonald Pdf

This book explores the potential for public banks to help finance the expansion, democratization, and sustainability of public water services in Europe, with implications for public water financing elsewhere in the world. Financing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 for water and sanitation will be enormously expensive and will also depend largely on public water operators. Where will this money to fund public water services come from? One option is public banks. These state-owned institutions constitute just under 20% of global banking assets, holding close to $50 trillion in assets. Many public banks have explicit mandates to finance public water management and related public goods, and they have been doing so for decades. And yet, despite a resurgence of interest in public banks, their roles and potential in funding public water services have been largely ignored by researchers and policy makers. This book aims to measure the scale and nature of interactions between public banks and public water operators in the European region; identify challenges and opportunities for deeper engagement between public banks and public water operators; recognize promising practices and how these might be transferred elsewhere in the world; and assess possibilities for more democratic forms of public bank and public water interactions. This volume will be of great use to students and researchers interested in political ecology and economy, development and cooperation, public policy as well as water governance and management. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Water International.

Author : Thomas Marois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108839150

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Public Banks by Thomas Marois Pdf

Public banks are dynamic, contested institutions with the potential to decarbonize the environment, definancialise the economy, and democratise global development.

Author : Thomas Marois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108984517

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Public Banks by Thomas Marois Pdf

Public banks are banks located within the public sphere of a state. They are pervasive, with more than 900 institutions worldwide, and powerful, with tens of trillions in assets. Public banks are neither essentially good nor bad. Rather, they are dynamic institutions, made and remade by contentious social forces. As the first single-authored book on public banks, this timely intervention examines how these institutions can confront the crisis of climate finance and catalyse a green and just transition. The author explores six case studies across the globe, demonstrating that public banks have acquired the representative structures, financial capacity, institutional knowledge, collaborative networks, and geographical reach to tackle decarbonisation, definancialisation, and democratisation. These institutions are not without contradictions, torn as they are between contending public and private interests in class-divided society. Ultimately, social forces and struggles shape how and if public banks serve the public good.

Author : Stephany Griffith-Jones,Régis Marodon,Louis-Philippe Rochon,Jiajun Xu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000802795

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Development and Public Banks by Stephany Griffith-Jones,Régis Marodon,Louis-Philippe Rochon,Jiajun Xu Pdf

Development finance institutions (DFIs), also known as public development banks (PDBs) are public financial institutions initiated and steered by governments with explicit official missions to promote public policy objectives, and public development banks (PDBs) are the main category. DFIs are experiencing a renaissance worldwide, but there is limited academic research examining their roles, operations, and effectiveness. This book attempts to fill this gap by bringing together world-renowned scholars who discuss in detail the economics and the social consequences of both development banks and public banks. Combining together, the chapters in this volume discuss topics from sustainability, development impact of financial instruments, a new development financial architecture, and the interaction with existing international rules like the Basel Accord. This book will be of particular interest to students, scholars, and researchers of development finance, global governance, and international political economy. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Review of Political Economy.

Author : Philippe Marin
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0821379577

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Public Private Partnerships for Urban Water Utilities by Philippe Marin Pdf

'Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Water Utilities: A Review of Experiences in Developing Countries' analyzes the market growth of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the developing world since 1990, and the performance of more than 65 large water PPP projects representing more than 100 million people for access, service quality, operational efficiency, and tariff levels. Although a relatively small portion of the water utilities in the developing world are operated under PPPs (about 7 percent in 2007), the urban population served by private water operators has grown every year since 1990. Despite many difficulties encountered by PPP projects and a few contract terminations, a large majority of contracts awarded since 1990 are still in place. The track record for improving service and efficiency reaffirms the value of PPPs to help turn around poorly performing water utilities, even though the level of private financing did not match initial expectations. Over time, a more realistic market has developed, the number of private investors from developing countries has grown, and contract designs have become more pragmatic concerning risk allocations between partners. The water sector has many features that set it apart from other infrastructure sectors. This book suggests the need for careful consideration of those specificities to successfully involve private operators. Although concessions with private financing have worked in a few places, contractual arrangements that combine private operation with public financing appear to be the most sustainable option in many countries. Policy makers, stakeholders, and donors need to remain heavily engaged in the water sector, especially in the poorest countries and during a global financial crisis. This book contributes to a better understanding of the various options to tackle the many challenges of providing water and sanitation services to urban populations in the developing world.

Author : Ellen Hodgson Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0983330867

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The Public Bank Solution by Ellen Hodgson Brown Pdf

WHAT WALL STREET DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW. Shock waves from one Wall Street scandal after another have completely disillusioned us with our banking system; yet we cannot do without banks. Nearly all money today is simply bank credit. Economies run on it, and it is created when banks make loans. The main flaw in the current model is that private profiteers have acquired control of the credit spigots. They can cut off the flow, direct it to their cronies, and manipulate it for personal gain at the expense of the producing economy. The benefits of bank credit can be maintained while eliminating these flaws, through a system of banks operated as public utilities, serving the public interest and returning their profits to the public. This book looks at the public bank alternative, and shows with examples from around the world and through history that it works admirably well, providing the key to sustained high performance for the economy and well-being for the people.

Author : David A. McDonald
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000648089

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Meanings of Public and the Future of Public Services by David A. McDonald Pdf

Critically assessing meanings of the term "public", this book situates the emergence and expansion of "public services" within market-based forms of production and consumption. It highlights the potential for making public services more progressive within market societies, but underscores their ongoing capture by private interests and emphasises the inherent limits of reform within a "bourgeois public sphere". The author explores opportunities for more expansive forms of non-marketized public services, examining emerging debates on the theory and practice of equitable, participatory and sustainable forms of publicness that go beyond mere ownership. The book then asks how we can build a robust international "pro-public" movement that juggles universal needs with local context. With a focus on essential public services such as water, electricity and health, the text is global in its scope and written for a broad audience. It will be useful for those interested in social and public policy, public services and public administration, political theory, economic geography, social movements, sustainability and development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drinking water
ISBN : SRLF:AA0002552594

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Manual of Individual and Non-public Water Supply Systems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jasmine Gideon,Elaine Unterhalter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000297133

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Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships by Jasmine Gideon,Elaine Unterhalter Pdf

This book argues that despite the hype within many policy circles, there is actually very little evidence to support the presumed benefits of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in reducing poverty and addressing inequalities in the provision of and access to public services. Taking a cross-sectoral comparative approach, this book investigates how PPPs have played out in practice, and what the implications have been for inequalities. Drawing on a range of empirical case studies in education, healthcare, housing and water, the book picks apart the roles of PPPs as financing mechanisms in several international and national contexts and considers the similarities and differences between sectors. The global COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant questions about the future of social provision and through its analysis of the emergence and expansion of the role of PPPs, the book also makes a vital contribution to current discussion over this rapidly changing landscape. Overall, this wide-ranging guide to understanding and evaluating the role of PPPs in the Global South will be useful to researchers within development, international relations, economics, and related fields, as well as to policy makers and practitioners working in development-related policy.

Author : Dr Nishikant Chandrakant Warbhuwan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387592272

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STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BANKS OF LATUR DISTRICT: A RELATIVE EXPLORATION by Dr Nishikant Chandrakant Warbhuwan Pdf

Author : Robert B. Williams,Gordon L. Culp
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015011162636

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Handbook of Public Water Systems by Robert B. Williams,Gordon L. Culp Pdf

Author : Samuel K. Amoo
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Property Law in Namibia (2nd edition) by Samuel K. Amoo Pdf

Property Law in Namibia provides an autochthonous discussion of property law in Namibia. It does not only capture the constitutional, statutory and common law sources of property law in Namibia, but it also covers currently topical subjects such as property rights of women and land reform in Namibia. The publication is meant to be utilised by law academics, property law lecturers, legal practitioners and conveyancers, law students, students pursuing specialised land related programmes such as land use planning and officials in government ministries. Property Law in Namibia contains chapters on traditional concepts of property law such as the scope and nature of the law of property, classifications of things, real rights and personal rights, ownership and possession. Chapter 9 is devoted entirely to remedies, which is a departure from the norm, but where relevant, appropriate remedies are indicated in the specific parts of the text. In order to give prominence to Namibian property jurisprudence topics on the genesis of the land tenure systems of Namibia, land reform, and property rights of women in Namibia have either been dealt with in separate chapters or been included as parts of other chapters. This publication is meant to be utilised by law academics, property law lecturers, legal practitioners and conveyancers, law students, students pursuing specialised land related programmes such as land use planning and officials

Author : David A. McDonald
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783604852

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Making Public in a Privatized World by David A. McDonald Pdf

How do we provide effective public services in a deeply neoliberal world? In the wake of the widespread failure of privatisation efforts, societies in the global south are increasingly seeking progressive ways of recreating the public sector. With contributors ranging from cutting-edge scholars to activists working in health, water, and energy provision, and with case studies covering a broad spectrum of localities and actors, Making Public in a Privatized World uncovers the radically different ways in which public services are being reshaped from the grassroots up. From communities holding the state accountable for public health in rural Guatemala, to waste pickers in India and decentralized solar electricity initiatives in Africa, the essays in this collection offer probing insights into the complex ways in which people are building genuine alternatives to privatization, while also illustrating the challenges which communities face in creating public services which are not subordinated to the logic of the market, or to the monolithic state entities of the past.

Author : Mustafa Yağcı
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000935837

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Central Banking in a Post-Pandemic World by Mustafa Yağcı Pdf

This book addresses the urgent need to examine central bank policies in response to the global supply and demand shock brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, asking whether central banks are doing enough to address inequalities and concerns around climate change and emerging technologies. Adopting an interdisciplinary, critical perspective, the contributors to this volume provide novel theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights on central banks around the world, including in advanced, emerging and developing economies. The chapters in this book explore the evolution of central bank mandates, the policy tools central banks are utilizing, why and how monetary policy takes different shapes (including unconventional monetary policy), the key dynamics influencing central bank policies, how central banks are adapting to the new realities and addressing emerging challenges, and how monetary policy is perceived in the wider economic policy framework. With novel theoretical approaches and diverse empirical evidence from a variety of countries, this book will appeal to readers interested in central banking, monetary policy, the economics of the pandemic and political economy.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000088181296

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Public Works for Water, Pollution Control, and Power Development, and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf