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Willingness To Pay For Improved Water Service In Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, James F. Casey
Willingness To Pay For Improved Water Service In Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, James F. Casey
James F Casey
The 1.5 million residents of the city of Manaus form the epicenter for economic activity and development in the Amazon Basin. The current water treatment facilities were built when there were a mere 100,000 people living here. The fifteen-fold increase in population has made access to water a major public health concern. Families that can afford to buy bottled water do and those that can not are susceptible to water-borne disease and illness at an ever-increasing rate. In order to determine how much citizens are willing to pay for universal access to water service in the home, the University of …
Helping Infant Economies Grow: Foundations Of Trade Policies For Developing Countries, Joseph Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald
Helping Infant Economies Grow: Foundations Of Trade Policies For Developing Countries, Joseph Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald
Joseph Stiglitz
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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law Andspeed Of Privatization In Transition Countries: 11 Years Later, Joseph Stiglitz, Sergio Godoy
Growth, Initial Conditions, Law Andspeed Of Privatization In Transition Countries: 11 Years Later, Joseph Stiglitz, Sergio Godoy
Joseph Stiglitz
This paper examines alternative hypotheses concerning the determinants of success in the transition from Communism to the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more important in explaining the growth of the transition countries in the years since the end of the Cold War. In the mid 90s a large empirical literature attempted to relate growth to policy measures. A standard conclusion of this literature was the faster countries privatized and liberalized, the better. We now have more data, so we can check whether these conclusions are still valid six years …
Improving The Regulatory Framework For The Income Enhancement Of The Urban Poor: A Case Study Of The Mexico City Metropolitan Area, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu
Improving The Regulatory Framework For The Income Enhancement Of The Urban Poor: A Case Study Of The Mexico City Metropolitan Area, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu
Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu
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