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Collaborative governance for local economic development : lessons from countries around the world
\"Although collaborations for local and regional economic development have been popular in recent years, it is not yet wholly clear when or how such efforts bring successful outcomes. Using an integrative conceptual framework for collaborative governance, this innovative collection provides a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of real-world collaborative networks for local and regional economic development. Focusing on a wide range collaborative economic development in diverse cities and regions in USA, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, and South Korea, the chapters explore what forces motivate the emergence of collaborative economic development efforts. Each chapter explores the factors which contribute to or hinder collaborative governance efforts for economic development and identifies lessons for overcoming challenges to creating communities that are economically resilient, environmentally sustainable and politically engaged in the era of globalization. By focusing on collaborative governance and its implications for the ability of policies to meet the challenges of the 21st century, it provides lessons for researchers in public management, urban planning/development, public policy, and political science, as well as practitioners interested in promoting local economic development\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Private health sector assessment in Tanzania (A world bank study)
The Tanzania Private Health Sector Assessment provides information on the size, location and characteristics of non-state health service providers in Tanzania. It also identifies challenges and opportunities for the Government of Tanzania and International Community to leverage the potential of these providers to achieve.
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World bank group support to public-private partnerships
Unlocking Infrastructure Potential Through Public-Private Partnerships
World Bank Group Support to Public-Private Partnerships examines the effectiveness of the World Bank Group's assistance to developing countries in utilizing public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure development. This evaluation assesses the relevance, success, and coordination of the Bank Group's PPP initiatives, offering valuable lessons and recommendations.
This study is for government officials, policymakers, development practitioners, private sector investors, and academics interested in:
* Overcoming infrastructure deficits
* Mobilizing private sector finance
* Improving project preparation and execution
* Creating enabling environments for PPPs
* Achieving sustainable development outcomes
Discover how the World Bank Group's strategic framework, resource deployment, and inter-institutional collaboration can drive successful PPPs and foster economic growth in client countries.
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Project finance in construction : a structured guide to assessment
This work provides a structured process for determining the commercial viability of large construction projects - from gas pipelines and bridges to hospitals and schools - procured with project finance (PF). With this guide, readers can develop their own assessment structures as required using the assessment mechanism described.
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Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries
Advocates of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure services in developing countries have long battled criticism of these arrangements by civil society groups. The view among PPP advocates generally has been that these criticisms are mostly ideological polemics that mix opinion with selected but often misinterpreted facts. But over the last two decades, as the experience with PPPs has increased in both developed and developing countries, a different kind of critique has emerged, one that is based on non-ideological empirical research, and is sometimes expressed by PPP advocates. These studies often focus on individual aspects of PPPs, and usually do not claim to be “PPP evaluations” or express opinions on the overall value of PPPs. Taken together, a powerful, evidence-based critique of PPPs is emerging, but one that is more measured than much of the criticism of the last two decades. This new critique recognizes many cases in which PPPs have not been successful, but also some situations in which PPPs can generate value for money. Because of its critical tone, some of this research is now regularly cited by the civil society critics of PPPs, giving their arguments more weight than was the case a decade ago. This paper attempts to summarize some of the most compelling examples of this kind of emerging critique, and uses the summary to assess the practicality of the G20’s recent advocacy of large, “transformational” PPPs as tools for dealing effectively with infrastructure challenges in low-income countries.
Journal Article
Privilege-resistant policies in the Middle East and North Africa : measurement and operational implications
\"Renewing the social contract--one of the pillars of the new World Bank Group strategy for the Middle East and North Africa--requires a new development model built on greater trust; openness, transparency, inclusive and accountable service delivery; and a stronger private sector that can create jobs and opportunities for the youth of the region. Recent analytic work trying to explain weak job creation and insufficient private sector dynamism in the region point to formal and informal barriers to entry and competition. These barriers privilege a few (often unproductive) incumbents who enjoy a competition edge due to their connections or ability to influence policy making and delivery. Policy recommendations to date in the field of governance for private sector policymaking have been too general and too removed from concrete, actionable policy outcomes. This report proposes--for the first time--to fill this policy and operational gap by answering the following question: What good governance features should be instilled in the design of economic policies and institutions to help shield them from capture, discretion and arbitrary implementation? Privilege-Resisitant Policies in the Middle East and North Africa benchmarks eight countries on a number of policy areas with regard to their vulnerability to privilege-seeking. The book offers various operational and technical entry points to enhance privilege-resistant policy making in a concrete way that is politically tractable in different country contexts.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Upgrading, Interactive Learning, and Innovation Systems in Value Chain Interventions
Value chain interventions are increasingly used by donors in the context of private sector development. The paper develops a typology of such interventions, and presents the case of one multilateral lending institution – the Inter-American Development Bank. It argues that interventions risk transforming into an empty label and that an understanding of core global value chain (GVC) concepts, such as power, governance, and rents, is necessary. Further, interventions need to consider different learning channels internal and external to GVCs and particularly the interaction of GVCs with local innovation systems, and the interactive and systemic nature of knowledge and learning. These dimensions have often been overlooked in actual policies and programs. The paper concludes that an improvement in the definition of main concepts and approaches derived from the critical tradition of the GVC literature and of learning and innovation concepts is urgently called for. This reinforces the need for a new generation of industrial policies.
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Factors determining renewable energy demand behavior: service sector development, private sector involvement, and human resource management perspective
Energy is considered the engine of growth due to its indispensable role in fueling economic activities. However, energy is one of the primary contributors to environmental degradation. In addition, conventional energy sources are depleting quickly due to the over-consumption of these sources, raising the issue of energy security. The solution to these above-stated issues is increasing renewable energy consumption. There is evidence that service sector development, private sector development, and human resource management help improve energy efficiency; however, their role in increasing renewable energy demand is debatable. This analysis fills the vacuum by examining the effect of service sector development, private sector development, and human resource management on renewable energy demand across four major regions: Asia, America, Africa, and Europe, spanning from 1998 to 2021. The analysis depends on the CS-ARDL model that can estimate the short and long-run results by addressing the model’s cross-sectional dependence. The model estimates confirm that service sector development, private sector, and financial development escalate the long-run renewable energy consumption in all regions except Africa. Human resource enhances renewable energy consumption globally, in Europe and America. Likewise, GDP and carbon emissions stimulate long-run renewable energy consumption in all regions; however, trade only encourages renewable energy consumption globally and in Europe. The service sector development, financial development, carbon emissions, and trade significantly encourage short-run renewable energy consumption in one or two regions. In contrast, the GDP positively and significantly connects to the short-run renewable energy consumption in almost all regions. Therefore, policymakers should focus on increasing the role of human resources, services, and private sector development in the economy.
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