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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Cost Recovery"”.
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Problems of cost recovery in housing projects : "La Pimienta, a case study"
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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'Free Basic Water' and cost recovery : impact on low-income households in Grabouw
… Affairs and Forestry implemented a policy of cost recovery to enable local government to become financially sustainable. However, as this policy allowed municipalities to cut off the water supply of consumers who defaulted in their municipal payments, government's stance on non-payment - that …
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Safe water storage in Kenya's modified clay pot : standardization, tap design, and cost recovery
One of the main components necessary for providing safe drinking water for users who lack piped water in the home is the ability to safely store it in the home. Users in the Nyanza Province of Kenya frequently carry water from some distance or purchase vended water and traditionally store this …
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Who pays for water? : cost recovery and user fees in Boston's public water infrastructure, 1849-1895
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.
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Local management of a global tension : cost recovery and social equity in urban water and sanitation provision in Durban, South Africa
… to make simultaneous headway towards both cost recovery and serving the poor. The case of Durban, South Africa, is often held to be one of the few examples where significant progress towards both of these ends has been achieved. This thesis asks, to what extent Durban has actually been able …
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The domain of the 'Disconnected' : struggles against cost recovery mechanisms on water delivery - a study of the low income community of Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain
… Forestry implementing intensified practices of cost-recovery to allow local government to become financially sustainable. At the conceptual level of the paper the 'naturalisation of water commodification' serves as the framework through which privatization, commercialisation and cost-recovery …
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Enhancing state energy production : construction work in progress in energy infrastructure projects
… One key area of focus is the difference in cost recovery mechanisms for construction projects, which significantly affects the scale and timing of infrastructure investments. This paper examines a specific cost recovery mechanism, Construction Work in Progress (CWIP), and evaluates its role …
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Water use efficiency and influence of management policies, analysis for the small-scale irrigation sector in South Africa
… worldwide increased in importance. In addition, cost-recovery is now widely acknowledged as a cornerstone of sustainable water management. This research aims to contribute to improved water management in the small-scale irrigation sector in South Africa, which also faces these challenges. In a …
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Essays on financial market regulatory frameworks and financial inclusion
… to account for institutional diversity and cost structures. To investigate this, the research utilised three empirical and conceptual essays. In the first essay, a systematic review of 46 studies identified nine regulatory themes – covering prudential and non-prudential elements, market …
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Controlling Cape Town’s poor through water management devices: the case of Saxonsea, Atlantis
… selected households in Saxonsea. The impact of cost recovery policies on poor households was interrogated in the light of government’s distributional and procedural equity in service delivery. The main issues arising from the study were lack of consultation, inadequate information, and …
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The impact of fiscal decentralisation reform on hospital efficiency : the case of Kenya.
… reform can take various forms: self-financing or cost recovery through user charges and co-financing or expansion of local revenue through taxation. This study examines the impact of decentralisation of fiscal financial management of cost sharing revenue on hospital efficiency. Potentially, …
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Evaluating New Business Opportunities for Interregional Transmission
… benefits planning provide a favorable benefit-to-cost ratio for transmission customers and support positive returns for investors. However, evaluating the comprehensive benefits of proposed transmission projects is computationally expensive and unfeasible to execute for early-stage, exploratory …
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Supply and demand side benefits and costs of low cost urban electrification in Malawi : a case of Mbayani Township
… the supply and demand side benefits and costs of low cost urban electrification in Mbayani Township in Blantyre City in Malawi. The low cost urban electrification program, which used compact ready boards to provide electricity to poor households in Mbayani, is the first such program in …
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The importance of certain tax incentives in business investment decision making: the views of business decision makers
… of the investment tax credit and the accelerated cost recovery system on their decision making for new equipment. The executives were divided into groups based upon the reported amount of expected future unused capacity of their firms. The statistical analysis of the groups indicates that decision …
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Paying for transit operations : challenges and solutions for the Chicago Transit Authority
… congestion from limited subsidies and a cost recovery statute. To address these challenges a series of alternatives were evaluated using a framework that considers revenue potential, incidence, side effects, and political feasibility. Based on this analysis, a four part strategy is …
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An analysis of the pricing mechanism of water in Namibia: A case study of NamWater
… The study found out that NamWater uses the cost recovery pricing mechanism because of its advantages and due to the fact that it is a widely used pricing mechanism. Therefore, the study concluded that NamWater can continue using its current pricing mechanisms and try to factor in …
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Local Resources Mobilization Towards Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Tanzania: A Case of Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam City
… provision, effective solid waste management cost recovery, and compliance with the waste hierarchy principle in contracts design. It is expected that, the study findings can inform decision-makers, practitioners, academicians, local community workers, the private sector, industries, …
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Local Resources Mobilization Towards Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Tanzania: A Case of Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam City
… provision, effective solid waste management cost recovery, and compliance with the waste hierarchy principle in contracts design. It is expected that, the study findings can inform decision-makers, practitioners, academicians, local community workers, the private sector, industries, …
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Systems Engineering for Carbon Capture and Storage
… and saline aquifers offer high utility and low cost. The Gulf Coast and Permian & Midcontinent regions show better performance due to existing infrastructure and storage capacity. The study emphasizes the benefits of staged CCS development for broader deployment, technology maturation, and cost …
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Household water chlorination for the developing world : a cast study in Lumbini, Nepal
… and the introduction of user contributions and cost-recovery for household chlorination products. In addition, it presents recommendations for the establishment of a well inventory in Lumbini and suggests standard surveying and microbial testing procedures to facilitate future well surveying …
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