Motivated by the recent studies on green bond market, we build a Principal–Agent model in which an investor trades portfolio of and conventional bonds, both issued same governmental entity. The government provides incentives to bondholder order increase amount invested bonds. These are, optimally, indexed prices their quadratic variation covariation. We show numerically set French bonds that ou...

Abstract In response to the challenges imposed by COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide adopted a variety of strategies that include not just preventive or mitigation “flatten curve”, but also interventions aiming mitigate economic and social impacts pandemic. RAP`s special issue gathered 17 reflexive, timely relevant contributions different governmental approaches this paper we highlight si...

Performance Based Logistics (PBL) is an acquisition reform that is intended to improve weapon systems logistics by reducing cost, improving reliability, and reducing footprint. PBL is an extension of a broad process of rationalizing and, in many cases, outsourcing government services. As with other examples of governmental service outsourcing, measurement issues arise in the gap between governm...

Today, many countries are launching E-Government projects to effectively enhance the provision of governmental services. E-Government encompasses the usage of all information and communications technologies (so far mainly by using the Internet) to deliver governmental services to citizens and improve the quality of governmental activities. However, various EGovernment ranking surveys show that ...

The need for evidence-based practice calls for research focussing not only on the effectiveness of interventions and their translation into policies, but also on implementation processes and the factors influencing them, in particular for complex health system policies. In this paper, we use the lens of one of the health system's 'building blocks', human resources for health (HRH), to examine t...

The Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana (IIAP) is the leading governmental organization working in aquaculture and fisheries research in the Peruvian Amazon region. In addition, IIAP produces fingerlings, offers training courses, and works with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) endeavoring to promote fish culture. This report summarizes fieldwork and survey results from rural...

In promoting a "New Policy Agenda," bilateral and multilateral donor agencies are keen to finance nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and grassroots organizations (GROs) on the grounds of their economic efficiency and contribution to "good governance." This paper reviews the impact of this trend on NGO/GRO programming, performance, legitimacy and accountability. It finds that much of the case ...