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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Private Investments"”.
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Determinants of private investments in South Africa
This paper reviews the causal connection between private investment; interest rates and macroeconomic uncertainty in South Africa on a yearly time series data range between 1980 and 2014. This research was encouraged by the continually weakening private investment in South Africa relative to total …
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Examining place-based levers that drive private investments in Chicago’s opportunity zones
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Economic Analysis of Conjunctive Use of Water: The Case of Mahi-Kadana Irrigation Project in Gujarat, India
… demands of farmers are not met. This has lead to private investments in groundwater. Since private well capacity often exceeds the water needs of farm-well owners a significant portion of the ground irrigation water is sold to neighboring farmers at prices much higher than the prices of canal …
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Essays on Place-Based Interventions: The Effects of Neighborhood Investments on Public Safety
Investments in police and punitive sanctions can reduce crime, but they are costly solutions and can lead to harmful consequences, mainly for historically marginalized communities. The recent protests against police use of force and racism, compounded with the pervasiveness of unfading concentrated …
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Financing infrastructure projects
… to satisfy this growing need. The role of the private sector in infrastructure finance is essential, and the amount of private investments in infrastructure projects has been dramatically increasing over the last few years. Public Private Partnerships, Private Finance Initiatives, and …
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Information and self-selection in the PIPE market
PIPEs (Private Investments in Public Equity) are unique in that they are negotiated privately between sophisticated investors and the public firm. As a result, the issue price deviates from the firm's stock price, often resulting in a substantial PIPE discount. However, only a limited set of firms …
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Social equity in urban sustainability initiatives : strategies and metrics for Baltimore and beyond
… one effective strategy. Leveraging public and private investments also holds promise. To facilitate learning about the relationship between sustainability strategies and equity outcomes, a protocol for assessing social equity impacts of urban sustainability plans is proposed. The thesis …
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Dense urbanism at the old edge: conflict and reconciliation of streets and buildings
… the density of land use increases, a secondary private road system is created, to take advantage of development potential and provide access to major building investments. The effective fragmentation of the large blocks suggests a pattern of metric convergence towards an optimum block size. In …
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Rajono savivaldybės bendradarbiavimas su privataus verslo bendrovėmis: Mažeikių rajono atvejis /
… with the district municipality cooperation with private companies in Mažeikiai region. Lithuania, as well as many countries of the world, faces the growing demand for investments for public infrastructure and development of public services and their quality improvement. Limited possibilities of …
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The Critique of Everyday Drought: A Feminist Decolonial Analysis of Hydro-Climate Policies in Cape Town, South Africa
… to create new opportunities for water-related private investments in the global South. Drawing from the emblematic case of Cape Town, South Africa, this research demonstrates the ways in which finance-driven reforms aimed at making the urban water system more resilient to climate change are …
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Mechanisms of Credential Inflation in the United States Aerospace and Defense Industry
… These findings may influence public and private investments in human capital, organizational recruitment and training practices, and government educational initiatives. Recommendations may influence social policy and encourage scholars to revisit credential inflation mechanisms operating …
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Three Essays On Private Market Interactions
… in relatively safe assets, choose to invest in private equity (PE). Using insurer financial disclosures, we test theories relating how risk shifting, managerial discretion, underinvestment, asset liability matching, regulation, home bias, and reaching for yield affect PE investment. Results …
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The reform of the electricity supply industry in Zimbabwe and its impact on power sector investments since 2002
… of electricity supply through encouraging private participation, especially in generation, introducing regulation and competition and restructuring the utility. The reforms have not yielded the expected results, two decades on. This research explores the reform process and the extent to …
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Comprehensive wealth measurement and spatial hedonic analysis : social capital and social amenities
… amenities generated as a result of public and private investments in social and other types of capital. This dissertation extends the Roback model by identifying appropriate data on local income, land values, and place-based amenities at the county level in the contiguous 48 states of the …
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Project finance for independent power producers in developing countries : the Paiton I project generation project in Indonesia
Private investments for independent power producers (IPPs) in developing countries have grown substantially since 1990s as public utilities were unable to keep pace with the countries' electricity demand. The private investors' experiences, however, have not been as smooth as expected with the …
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The Pursuit of Urban Justice: Managing processes of decline and regeneration in Salt River, Cape Town
… due to the withdrawal of both public and private investments from the area. These changes are interpreted by the City of Cape Town (CoCT) as an indication that Salt River is in decline and, consequently, in need of regeneration. In response to this perception, the CoCT has developed a …
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Understanding Responsible Investment in Private Equity: Challenges & Opportunities in Uganda
… land, labour, capital and entrepreneurship. Such investments create avenues through which resources that provide a comparative advantage for the country can be exploited to benefit all citizens. These benefits include creating more employment opportunities, increased tax revenue and foreign …
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Architectural Historicism Revisited: The Case of Twentieth-Century Traditionalist Architecture in Queen Street, Auckland
… study. Attracting some of the largest public and private investments in the country, Queen Street architecture was designed by the most renowned architects of the period and widely appreciated by the public. Therefore, it is considered as a representative sample that reflects broader architectural …
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Vulnerabilidade socioambiental: análise da cidade do Natal/RN a partir do índice geral de vulnerabilidade socioambiental por bairro
… of segregation and channeling of public and private investments in the administrative regions of the city.
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Internationalisation of public services: a social network analysis of global ownership
… and a rebalancing of the relations between the private and public sector that is taking place during the last three decades. Neo-liberalism, dominant in the policy agenda of the leading world powers during this period of time, advocates the necessity of privatisation, including privatisation of …
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