This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved. Cities are key investors in infrastructure with green potential, such as buildings, transport, water and waste. Their main revenue sources, such as...

How is developped the IT governance system ? What are the charastics of the system ? IT managers have to make decisions in various domains: IT architecture, IT infrastructure, requirements, finance and project scheduling. “Organisation” facet represents the enterprise context for decisionmaking and delegation (centralised, decentralised or hybrid). The “coverage” facet is representative of the ...

The objective of this study is to model and estimate the effect of financial services in the agricultural sector of Iran on the value added of this sector. Moreover, since as of 1984, the Interest Free Banking law was implemented, the effect of this change on the value added of the sector will be studied as the second objective. The model of the study consists of three tions. The volume of real...

This study attempts to empirically understand various barriers in reverse logistics implementation from firms’ perspective in different Chinese sectors. This study identifies major barriers related to management, finance, policy and infrastructure. Contingency analysis is carried out to understand the similarities and differences in barriers among multinational firms and domestic firms.

Mr. Chairman and members of the committees: We are pleased to be here today to discuss alternative financing for surface transportation infrastructure projects. As Congress considers reauthorizing the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) in 2003, it does so in the face of a continuing need for the nation to invest in its surface transportation infrastructure and at a time whe...

In this paper, the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2019 are analyzed by spatial measure model and threshold regression model. The results show that air quality level is positively correlated with green finance, but there no effect. effect three influencing factors, including degree openness, infrastructure, education, crowding-out At same time, variables such as human resource ...

There is growing debate over whether applications of blockchain and other financial technologies (‘fintechs’) reinforce forms neo-colonial extraction that perpetuate North–South inequities or help enact decolonial ambitions across the Global South. This paper expands such discussions contributes to this special issue on ‘fintech in Africa’ by situating emerging African techno-experimentation wi...

Public Private Partnerships (PPP) have been common in infrastructure for many years and are increasingly being considered as a means to finance, build, and manage hospitals. However, the growth of hospital PPPs in the past two decades has led to confusion about what sorts of contractual arrangements between public and private partners consititute a PPP, and what key differences distinguish publ...

Financial markets crucially rely on the development of an infrastructure dedicated to the enforcement of contracts. Here we study the effects of limited enforcement capacity on financial contracting by proposing a new theory of costly state verification. In our model the principal contracts with a population of entrepreneurs, who borrow to finance risky projects under limited liability. To sust...

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