Investment in infrastructure is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, good quality healthcare–i.e, a dynamic economy. Yet amid scarce public capital, heavily indebted governments and increased demands on government resources, infrastructure projects often suffer from investment shortfalls and inadequate maintenance. These challenges merit renewed efforts at finding additional sources of funding. Innovative Funding and Financing for Infrastruc...

Infrastructural investment is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, health care, and the achievement of many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right. Public–private partnerships (PPPs) can help; they can provide more efficient procurement, focus on consumer satisfaction and lifecycle maintenance, and provide new sources of investment, in particular through limited recourse debt. But...

Airport development is critical to economic growth and poverty reduction. This book will help decision-makers assess whether Public Private Partnerships (PPP) might be a viable option to meet their airport development requirements. It walks the reader through the airport PPP process, from early preparation to bringing the project to market and managing the project during implementation. The book will help eradicate misconceptions about the role of the private sector in airport infrastructu...

Investment in infrastructure is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, healthcare, and achieving many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help; they provide more efficient procurement, focus on consumer satisfaction and life cycle maintenance, and provide new sources of investment, in particular through limited recourse debt. But PPPs prese...

Comentário sobre os pontos que mais causam dúvidas e polêmicas nos textos relativos à Legislação Trabalhista, abrangendo a CLT, as Súmulas do TST, as Orientações Jurisprudenciais do TST e, também, as decisões processuais. O objetivo deste livro é o de apontar e comentar os principais pontos causadores de dúvidas e atritos nos processos trabalhistas. É bem considerável o número de termos legais, jurisprudenciais e sentenciais que apresentam lacunas, incorreções e indefinições nos textos. Is...

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Investment in infrastructure is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, good quality healthcare, and achieving many of the goals of a robust and dynamic economy. However, infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right.This remarkably insightful and enormously useful book, now in its third edition, shows how the private sector (through public-private partnerships - PPP) can provide more efficient procurement through cheaper, fast...

Noël, un bout de trottoir sur les Champs Elysées.Une nuit, une destinée…Acculé par une série de malchances, Matisse Alessandro, alors âgé de dix-huit ans se retrouve à la rue. Depuis une longue année, il dessine sur les trottoirs de Paris, pour survivre.Matisse ne croit plus en la bonne étoile de son enfance. Décidément, la fatalité s’acharne. Et pourtant… tout peut basculer en cette surprenante nuit de Noël mais il ne le sait pas encore.

En cette année 1920, la France se relève doucement de la Grande Guerre. Tandis que Les Années Folles enivrent la jeunesse et la bourgeoisie, le peuple des villes et des campagnes panse ses plaies dans un mélange d’espoir, de liesse et de douleur.Depuis quelques mois, au dessus de la charmante baie de Paulilles où la dynamiterie est en pleine activité, au coeur de la garrigue entre Port-Vendres et Banyuls-sur-mer un mas inhabité frappé par le double décès de ses propriétaires durant ...

Dempsey, Bart and Jazz live dissimilar lives, yet are irresistiblydrawn together into a web of purposes beyond theirown. They accomplish the humanly impossible. None ofthem ever dreamed of doing what they did yet when theyput their feet on the path they knew they had found their destiny.Learning to use the powers of the unseen they plungedinto their victory. Could it happen to you? Only you can readand fi nd yourself and the forces that work...

Yes, he knew where to place his feet if he wanted to accomplish hislife plan. So he danced as if he were stepping on hot coals, grabbingat Hollywood fame and New York fortune, but when he arrived atthe top, his feet slid out from underneath him and his fall happenedmuch faster than his climb. It wasn’t until he buried himself in theTeton Mountains that he came face to face with the devil and thenwith God. Many mysteries unfolded for him and he foun...