The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe is a political declaration and framework agreement adopted in June 1999 to encourage and strengthen cooperation among the countries of South East Europe (SEE) and to facilitate, coordinate and streamline efforts to ensure stability and economic growth in the region. (see Compact ") is a key component of the Stability Pact under Working Table II on Eco...

Investment in the agricultural sector is important because this sector greatly affects the realms of providing food independence and security, employment, sustainable development, and environmental preservation. So, this study investigated the socio-economic impacts (direct and indirect effects) of the investment development policy on the agricultural sector and its sub-sectors in Iran in 2011 ...

This paper relates democracy, public and private international capital flows, and odious debt. Democracy commits a ruler to pass borrowed funds on to the private sector which builds the country’s international collateral, and the consequent rise in the credit ceiling is a Pareto-improvement up to a point because the ruler can appropriate a smaller share of rising loan. However, the ruler may st...

When publicly owned and operated water utilities lack the resources and technical expertise to expand services and operate efficiently, governments may seek investment from the private sector through concessions or other contractual arrangements. In such instances, a credible regulatory presence can promote favorable outcomes for all stakeholders by identifying the operating efficiencies of uti...

this paper empirically investigates the relationship between cpi inflation uncertainty, and private investment in the iranian economy from 1988 to 2010 by using quarterly data. we employ a bivariate var(5)-garch(1,1)-in-mean with diagonal bekk model to discover in a unified framework how are the interactions between the variables. in the model, conditional variance of inflation and private inve...

ii Executive summary In order to achieve a transition to sustainable development, economies will need to be radically transformed. Businesses and households will be responsible for the bulk of the investment needed. Such a radical transformational change will require the blending of public and private, domestic and international, capital and technical assistance finance. Global capital markets ...

QUESTIONS What is the economic value for an individual to invest in physiotherapy undergraduate education in Australia? How is this affected by increased education costs or decreased wages? DESIGN A cost-benefit analysis using a net present value (NPV) approach was conducted and reported in Australian dollars. In relation to physiotherapy education, the NPV represents future earnings as a phy...

in this paper, we analyze the effect of lack of capital investment on energy projects using game theory in the guise of cooperative games. we focus on the energy projects in the provincial level as case study during 2010-2011. therefore, we design a theoretical model of the lack of capital investment as a factor influencing the implement of energy projects. in the experimental section, we deter...

Chinese government is facing the “capital bottleneck” problem for developing urban environmental infrastructure including sewerage treatment and MWS disposal services to achieve the environmental targets set for the 10 Five Year Plan. The solution is worked out as introducing the private investment. This study argue that Public Private Partnership (PPP) is the best available solution for develo...