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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"concessions"”.
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Risk management in toll road concessions
With a degrading road infrastructure and dwindling public funds, governments are turning towards the private sector to develop roads and finance them though toll revenues. However, these high stakes endeavors were not always successful; in other words, they were not able to provide a fair return to …
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An Economic Analysis of Tropical Timber Concessions
The study of harvest concessions could be improved by alternative model specifications. More empirical data collection and analyses could be carried out. The different assumptions about enforceability and the validity of the theoretical results obtained can be tested empirically. It would also be …
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Intractable territorial disputes: Concessions, salience, and the political gain of domestic opposition factions
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Strategic Concessions: Negotiating Human Land Use to Serve the Habitat Needs of the Eastern Meadowlark
Our civilization is facing increased populations and scarcity of habitat for a variety of species. Encroaching on these landscapes while engaging in habitat fragmentation and destruction, has negatively impacted biodiversity and subsequently put thousands of species at risk of going extinct. With …
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An investigation of the effect of labour law concessions on stakeholders in Kenyan Garment export processing Zones
At the moment Kenya is experiencing high unemployment rates, over-reliance on unprocessed commodity exports, few foreign direct investment inflows and low technological capacities. The establishment of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) has been seen as a way of helping the country overcome some of …
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Assessing the utility of open-source data in exploring benthic biodiversity in mining concessions off the South African coast
… exploring benthic biodiversity within two mining concessions on the west and south coasts of South Africa. Lists of benthic taxa were generated, and biodiversity quantified using quantitative measures (species richness, Shannon-Wiener index) and multivariate analyses, where possible. Each dataset …
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LE PROCEDURE DI RIASSEGNAZIONE DELLE CONCESSIONI DI GRANDE DERIVAZIONE D¿ACQUA AD USO IDROELETTRICO FRA TUTELA DELL¿AMBIENTE, PROMOZIONE DELLA CONCORRENZA ED ESIGENZE DI SICUREZZA ENERGETICA.
… methods for the reallocation of these concessions, aside from public tender procedures, which would allow for a balance between the various interests surrounding hydroelectric energy production. This includes enhancing the centrality of this energy form within the national energy policy …
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Guiding principles for universal energy access: integrated distribution frameworks and their implementation
… approaches, this thesis examines the role of concessions as a possible regulatory vehicle for the implementation of IDF. It examines the potential of utility concessions, briefly mentions the role of mini-grid concessions, and concludes with a much more thorough analysis of solar concessions …
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Farm and factory : an analysis of the distinctions between and fiscal treatment of taxpayers simultaneously carrying on farming operations and manyfacturing processes under the Income Tax Act No. 58 of 1962
… Tax Act No. 58 of 1962 contains favourable concessions applicable to taxpayers who derive income from the carrying on of farming operations. Taxpayers who carry on processes of manufacture may also expect favourable fiscal treatment, albeit to a lesser extent. The most relevant concessions …
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Understanding Drivers of Deforestation using Games on Spatial Networks
… are also shaped by the activities in neighboring concessions. In this thesis, we focus on the problem of modeling these strategic interactions using game theory. We analyze a class of games in which agents engage in coupled activities over a spatial network and study a policy intervention to limit …
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THE FORGING OF CASTILIAN LAW: LAND DISPUTES BEFORE THE ROYAL AUDIENCIA AND THE TRANSMISSION OF A LEGAL TRADITION
… contribute to the institutions history. Royal concessions, legislation, and cases have also been studied, but primarily to support the analysis of the reign of a particular monarch or the history of a specific region or kingdom. This study analyzes how the Castilian royal court and Audiencia …
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An Institutional Lens on Firm Responses to Activism
… boycotts) affect the likelihood of firm concessions to social activists. However, extant research has not given due attention to internal organizational factors that motivate responses to activists’ demands. Additionally, the literature does not adequately address the issue that many …
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3 Essays on Protests, Repression, and Signaling
… activists cannot coerce the government to make concessions. The model shows small protests can risk exposing an incumbent government’s lack of interest in the citizens’ welfare and push them to make concessions in order to retain support. The third paper focuses on the preemptive use of …
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Lifting Failed Sanctions: Alliances, Reputations, and Instrumental Deference
… do they sometimes abandon them without securing concessions? Existing scholarship overwhelmingly focuses on the target of sanctions, seeking to explain when and why targets comply. Far less attention has been devoted to the sender’s decision to maintain or terminate sanctions. This omission is …
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The Heping District, Tianjin, China: conservation of a cultural landscape
… their infrastructure and urban fabric in their concessions, which made the site a sort of “International Exposition.” During the 1920s and 1930s, with the urbanization and modernization, the area of Heping District developed as the heart of Tianjin city. Although with the establishment of …
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An analysis of the current investment trend in the U.S. toll road sector
In recent years, long term concessions through public-private partnerships (PPP's) in the US toll road sector have emerged and are expected to become a phenomenon in the near future. Up until now, only two large scale transactions, the $1.83bn Chicago Skyway and $3.85bn Indiana Toll Road (ITR) have …
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Political crisis and the politics of water pollution control in the 1970s
… participation. Although the federal state made concessions to the capitalist class, again, political benefits to social classes took the form of legal safeguards to promote the accumulation of capital and to maintain existing class relations.
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The Northern Territories dispute between Japan and the Soviet Union: from rivalry to rapprochement
… of Perestroika has indicated the possibility of concessions and rapprochement over the islands after forty-five years of consistent deadlock. This new Soviet policy is aimed at improving relations with Japan and moving toward more economic and political cooperation, allowing the Soviets to …
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Power or progress: What terrorist group leaders really want
… leaders who are more concerned with gaining concessions from the government are likely to use lower levels of violence. The empirical analysis echoes the results of the formal model and provides evidence for the external validity of the model. Taken together these results suggest that some of …
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