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Journal articles on the topic "Resource Concessions"
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Bell, Linda A. "Union Wage Concessions in the 1980s: The Importance of Firm-Specific Factors." ILR Review 48, no. 2 (January 1995): 258–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979399504800204.
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This paper evaluates the effects of firm performance and firm characteristics on concession outcomes over the years 1980–87. Across similar firms, the author finds, concessions were inversely related to stock price and employment growth. Concessions were also most likely in small firms, in firms paying high wages, and in firms with relatively low union coverage. The effect of firm performance and firm characteristics on the likelihood of concessions was uniform across concessions of differing severity and was stable in magnitude over the eight-year period.
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Strand, Jon. "Lending terms, debt concessions, and developing countries' resource extraction." Resource and Energy Economics 17, no. 2 (August 1995): 99–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0928-7655(94)00024-e.
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Kaufman, Bruce E., and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez. "Voting for Wage Concessions: The Case of the 1982 GM-UAW Negotiations." ILR Review 41, no. 2 (January 1988): 183–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979398804100201.
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The authors of this paper use the median voter model to predict the patterns of rank-and-file voting on wage concessions in a multiplant setting, then test those predictions using data from the 1982 GM-UAW negotiations. The model predicts that workers in plants with large layoffs will vote in favor of a wage concession only if they believe that a concession will save their jobs. Surprisingly, workers in plants with growing or stable employment are also actually more likely to vote Yes. A third prediction is that the Yes vote will be smallest in plants with the most adversarial labor relations. The empirical analysis supports all three predictions.
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Becker, Brian E. "Concession Bargaining: The Impact on Shareholders' Equity." ILR Review 40, no. 2 (January 1987): 268–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979398704000208.
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This analysis of bargaining settlements in 1982–83 shows that, on average, shareholders in those firms that negotiated concessionary settlements enjoyed an 8 to 10 percent increase in the value of their holdings. The author interprets this result to mean not that the value of the firm increased, but rather that concessions enlarged the shareholders' portion of the firm's value at the expense of the workers' portion. On the other hand, concession bargaining does not seem to have reallocated business risk between shareholders and labor. Finally, the evidence suggests that firm-specific sources of risk can explain, in part, not only the magnitude of the concession effects but also the probability that concession bargaining will occur.
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Weladji, Robert B., Stein R. Moe, and Pål Vedeld. "Stakeholder attitudes towards wildlife policy and the Bénoué Wildlife Conservation Area, North Cameroon." Environmental Conservation 30, no. 4 (December 2003): 334–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892903000353.
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In recent years, wildlife policies that consider the participation of stakeholders have been promoted. An understanding of the stakeholders' attitudes towards conservation and existing policies are critical in designing new policies or sustainable conservation strategies. This paper examines stakeholders' (local people, park staff and professional hunter guides) attitudes, towards the Bénoué Wildlife Conservation Area (BWCA) and towards Cameroonian wildlife policy. The BWCA encompasses the Bénoué National Park and its surrounding hunting concessions that also include some villages. Both the Park and the hunting concessions are two categories of protected areas. Data were collected using informal interviews and questionnaires administered to 114 households from three communities, 17 park staff and seven professional hunter guides. Local people's attitudes towards protected areas depended on the management category of the particular protected area. Local people were positive towards the existence of the Park, but negative towards the system of hunting concession areas. There was local variation between communities concerning these attitudes. Local people were generally positive to maintaining the present Park area, but preferred a reduction in the size of the hunting concessions. Both Park staff and professional hunter guides expressed concern about present management strategies and the extent of illegal resource exploitation. Despite having poor knowledge of the current Cameroonian wildlife policy, most of the local households expressed support for it, but called for increased local involvement in management, off-take and the harvesting of benefits from both Park and hunting concession activities. The Park staff were sceptical about local participation in this context and saw such endeavours as a threat to a sound biodiversity management scheme. The findings indicate the need to strengthen current wildlife policy, promote the involvement of local people and empower the Park staff, both in terms of resources and in terms of skills in interacting with local people. The revised policy should be designed so as to vary according to the category of protected area and allow site-specific adaptations. Local people must experience reduced incurred costs and increased incomes from the Park. An environmental education programme is recommended to extensively disseminate the policy to user groups in the area.
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Bearce, David H., and Jennifer A. Laks Hutnick. "Toward an Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse: Natural Resources, Immigration, and Democratization." Comparative Political Studies 44, no. 6 (March 21, 2011): 689–718. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414011401211.
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Why do many resource-rich countries maintain autocratic political regimes? The authors’ proposed answer focuses on the causal effect of labor imports, or immigration. Using the logic offered by Acemoglu and Robinson’s democratization model, the authors posit that immigration makes democratization less likely because it facilitates redistributive concessions to appease the population within an autocratic regime. This immigration argument applies directly to the political resource curse since many resource-rich countries tend to also be labor scarce, leading them to import foreign laborers. Consistent with this understanding, the authors find a statistically significant negative relationship between net immigration per capita and democratization in future periods. Their results also show that when controlling for this immigration effect, the standard resource curse variables lose significance in a democratization model. This latter result suggests that much of the so-called resource curse stems not from resource endowments per se but rather from the labor imports related to resource production.
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Tey, Kian Siong, Michael Schaerer, Nikhil Madan, and Roderick I. Swaab. "The Impact of Concession Patterns on Negotiations: When and Why Decreasing Concessions Lead to a Distributive Disadvantage." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 165 (July 2021): 153–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2021.05.003.
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Gibb, Kenneth, and Lesley Baddon. "Tax Concessions and Financial Participation." Economic and Industrial Democracy 11, no. 3 (August 1990): 355–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x90113004.
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Donn, Clifford B. "Concession Bargaining in the Ocean-Going Maritime Industry." ILR Review 42, no. 2 (January 1989): 189–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979398904200202.
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The U.S.-flag maritime fleet has been in gradual decline throughout the postwar period, but that decline accelerated in the 1980s, with employment levels being particularly hard-hit. As a result, maritime collective bargaining entered a concessionary phase, with widespread concessions in staffing, work rules, and wages and benefits. The author finds that these recent concessions have come both in standard multi-employer agreements and in departures from those agreements on an employer-by-employer and vessel-by-vessel basis. He argues that these concessions, despite their extensiveness, will not be sufficient to halt the industry's decline in the absence of changes in public policy toward the maritime industry.
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Abboushi, Suhail. "Union leaders’ willingness to negotiate concessions." Journal of Labor Research 8, no. 1 (March 1987): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02685143.
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Kuusela, Olli-Pekka. "Three Essays in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50508.
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This dissertation analyses the impact of political and macroeconomic uncertainties on environmental outcomes and design of policy instruments. The first essay examines how the rate of agricultural land expansion in tropical countries depends on the nature and persistence of new political regimes. We use a novel panel data method that extends previous studies. We find that both new autocratic and democratic regimes have accelerated the expansion of agricultural land, thus yielding support to some of the findings in the earlier literature. Interesting differences emerge between regions, with the impact being most pronounced in Latin America. The analysis is developed more formally using a simple competitive land use model with political regime dependent confiscation risk and agricultural subsidy policy. The second essay evaluates the effectiveness of performance bonding for tropical forest concession management in achieving first and second best outcomes concerning reduced impact logging (RIL) standards. As a novel contribution, this essay introduces a simple model of two-stage concession design, and focus on the impact of three complications: harvester participation constraints, government repayment risk, and imperfect enforcement. We find several new and interesting results, in particular, imperfect enforcement and bond risk may deter implementation of bonding schemes as either the bond payment has to be set higher or the penalty mapping has to become more punitive. Policy implications, including potential for mechanisms such as REDD+ in improving the bonding outcomes, and the degree of financial support required to guarantee full implementation of RIL, are also examined. The third essay focuses on the relative performance of fixed versus intensity allowances in the presence of both productivity and energy price uncertainties. Both allowance instruments achieve the same steady-state emissions reduction target of 20%, which is similar to the current policy proposals, and the regulator then chooses the allowance policy that has the lowest expected abatement cost. We use a standard real business cycle (RBC) model to solve for the expected abatement cost under both policies. Unlike previous studies, our results show that under a reasonable model calibration, fixed allowances outperform intensity allowances with as much as 30% cost difference.Ph. D.
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Ng’ambi, Patrick K. M. S. "The resource nationalism cycle, stabilization clauses and the need for flexibility in concession agreements." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31484.
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Foreign direct investment in the mining and oil industries is invariably fostered through the signing of concession agreements between the host State and the investor. Such concessions may contain fiscal incentives, to encourage the flow of FDI. However, such concessions are also susceptible to alteration by the host State, once the investment has been sunk. This may include increasing taxes or outright nationalization. To avert this, investors will often insist on the insertion of stabilization clauses. These clauses constitute an undertaking on the part of the host State, that they will not take any administrative or legislative action that would adversely affect the rights of the investor. Such clauses are well recognized by arbitral tribunals and the unilateral abrogation of these clauses, will have pecuniary consequences. Not only will the host State have to pay damnum emergens but also lucrum cessans as part of the compensation package to the investor. Such a position promotes efficiency as per the efficient breach theory, by discouraging the State from terminating concession agreements unless they will make some money, even after compensating the investor for lost future profits. However, this ultimately renders stabilization clauses inflexible because they preclude the host State from pursuing legitimate public functions. Such a position, necessitates some form of contractual flexibility. However, the legitimate expectations of the investor also ought to the protected. The means of achieving this balance is by the inserting renegotiation clauses in the concession agreements.
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Ng'ambi, Patrick K. M. S. "The resource nationalism cycle, stabilization clauses and the need for flexibility in concession agreements." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31484.
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Foreign direct investment in the mining and oil industries is invariably fostered through the signing of concession agreements between the host State and the investor. Such concessions may contain fiscal incentives, to encourage the flow of FDI. However, such concessions are also susceptible to alteration by the host State, once the investment has been sunk. This may include increasing taxes or outright nationalization. To avert this, investors will often insist on the insertion of stabilization clauses. These clauses constitute an undertaking on the part of the host State, that they will not take any administrative or legislative action that would adversely affect the rights of the investor. Such clauses are well recognized by arbitral tribunals and the unilateral abrogation of these clauses, will have pecuniary consequences. Not only will the host State have to pay damnum emergens but also lucrum cessans as part of the compensation package to the investor. Such a position promotes efficiency as per the efficient breach theory, by discouraging the State from terminating concession agreements unless they will make some money, even after compensating the investor for lost future profits. However, this ultimately renders stabilization clauses inflexible because they preclude the host State from pursuing legitimate public functions. Such a position, necessitates some form of contractual flexibility. However, the legitimate expectations of the investor also ought to the protected. The means of achieving this balance is by the inserting renegotiation clauses in the concession agreements.
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Falcao, Mario Paulo Pereira da Silva. "Policy impact on stakeholder benefits and resource use and conservation in Mozambique : the case study of Moflor Forest Concession Area and Pindanganga Community Area." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50420.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.Some digitised pages may appear illegible due to the condition of the hard copy.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A case study in miombo woodlands was carried out in Pindanganga and MOFLOR forest concession, Gondola and Dondo Districts respectively, in the centre of Mozambique, to analyse the impact of alternative forest management regimes and sectoral and extra sectoral policies on the well being of stakeholders and conservation of the woodlands. A system dynamics model, MIOMBOSIM, based on game theory and implemented in POWERSIM was developed. The analysis is based on a simulation model of the fluctuation over time of the human population, forest dynamics, harvesting costs of the private sector, household consumption, commercial outputs and prices (timber, charcoal, non timber forest products and domestic animals), using data from field surveys and the literature. It also simulated the effects over time of changes in charcoal production efficiency, sales amount and marketing prices of NTFPs, agricultural output prices, off-miombo greater employment availability and a combination between the changes (simultaneous increase in marketing prices ofNTFPs and agricultural output prices, simultaneous increase in charcoal production efficiency and agricultural output prices, and simultaneous increase in off-miombo greater employment availability and agricultural output prices). The modelling approach chosen allows to evaluate management regimes taking into account the different stakeholder interests, which are often conflicting. This study shows that improvement in the well being of stakeholders and resource conservation can be achieved with sound forest management practices. There is no management regime capable of fully satisfying the goals of the stakeholders. The cooperative management option is potentially beneficial to local communities if properly implemented and can improve the rural livelihoods and the woodland resources condition. It also shows that regulated forest management regimes incorporating social concerns or incorporating social and environmental concerns are potentially more beneficial to the household sector than the open access regime. Results found in the study show that an increase by 10% and 30% on charcoal production efficiency can lead to an increase in the per capita benefits of the household sector by 3.0 to more than 100%, but can not reach the poverty line (one dollar per day per person). An increase by 100% in the sales amount or 100% increase in market selling prices of NTFPs can lead to an increase in the per capita benefits of the household sector. An increase in agricultural output selling prices by 25% without any other incentive leads to agricultural expansion. An increase by 100% in off-miembo employment opportunities in the study areas has an insignificant impact on resource use and conservation for the local communities due to the very low employment opportunities currently in place (0.008% in Pindanganga and 0.005% in MOFLOR area). A combination of these two policies instruments under ceteris paribus condition can improve the well being of the rural communities depending on the management regime option, but can not reach the poverty line (one dollar per day per person). The ranking of the management regime can change depending on the policy instrument applied.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: 'n Gevalle-studie is in Miombo boomveld in Pindanganga en MOFLOR, onderskeidelik in die Gondola en Dondo Distrikte in die sentrale deel van Mosambiek, uitgevoer om die impak van alternatiewe bosbestuursisteme en sektorale en ekstra-sektorale beleide op die welstand van belanghebbendes (stakeholders) en bewaring van die boomveld te ontleed. 'n Sisteem-dinamika model, MIOMBOSIM, gebaseer op spel teorie (game theory) en ge-implementeer in POWERSIM, was ontwikkel. Die analise is gebaseer op 'n simulasie-model van die fluktuasie oor tyd van die plaaslike bevolking, bosdinamika, oestingskostes van die private sektor, huishoudelike verbruik, kommersiële uitsette en pryse (hout, houtskool, nie-hout produkte en huishoudelike diere), deur data van veldopnames en uit die literatuur te gebruik. Die invloede oor tyd in veranderinge in effektiwiteit van houtskoolproduksie, verkoopsvlakke en markpryse van nie-hout produkte, landbou uitsetpryse, beskikbare indiensneming buite die Miombo boomveldgebiede, en 'n kombinasie tussen die veranderinge, is ook gesimuleer. Die gekose modelleringsbenadering het dit moontlik gemaak om die bosbestuursisteme te evalueer met inagneming van die verskillende en dikwels teenstrydige behoeftes van die belanghebbendes. Die studie het getoon dat verbetering In die welstand van die belanghebbendes en hulpbronbewaring bereik kan word met gesonde bosbestuurspraktyke. Geeneen van die bosbestuursisteme kan die doelwitte van die belanghebbendes ten volle bevredig nie. Die kooperatiewe bestuursopsie is potensieel voordelig vir die plaaslike gemeeskappe indien behoorlik ge-implementeer, en kan die landelike lewensbestaan sowel as die toestand van die boomveld as hulpbron verbeter. Gereguleerde bosbestuursisteme wat sosiale belange of sosialeomgewingsbelange insluit, is potensieel meer voordelig vir die huishoudelike sektor as die vrye toegangsisteem (open access regime). Resultate van die studie het getoon dat 'n toename van onderskeidelik 10% and 30% in effektiwiteit van houtskoolproduksie kan lei tot 'n toename in per kapita voordele van die huishoudelike sektor van 3.0% tot meer as 100%, maar kan nie lei tot 'n vebetering bokant die armoedevlak nie (een VSA doller per dag per persoon). 'n Toename van 100% in die hoeveelheid verkope of 'n 100% toename in die markverkoopsprys van nie-hout produkte kan lei tot 'n toename in die per kapita voordele van die huishoudelike sektor. 'n Toename in die landbou uitsetverkoopspryse met 25% sonder enige ander insentiewe lei tot landbou-uitbreiding. 'n 100% Toename in indiensnemingsgeleenthede buite die Miombo boomveldgebiede in die studiegebiede het onbeduidende impakte op hulpbrongebruik en bewaring vir die plaaslike gemeenskappe as gevolg van baie lae huidige indiensnemingsgeleenthede (0.008% in Pindanganga en 0.005% in MOFLOR). 'n Kombinasie van die twee beleidsinstrumente onder toestande van ceteris paribus kan die welstand van die landelike gemeenskappe verbeter afhangende van die bestuursisteemopsie, maar kan nie die armoedsvlak oorskry nie (een VSA doller per dag per persoon). Die rangorde van die bestuursisteem kan verander afhangende van watter beleidsinstrument toegepas word.
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Soyeju, Olufemi Olugbemiga. "Public assets financing in Nigeria : the imperatives for legal reforms to unlock domestic financial resources and foreign capital for infrastructure development." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24525.
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Infrastructure is one of the main parameters of economic growth and a country‘s competitiveness depends on the provision and maintenance of efficient and productive infrastructure assets. However, Nigeria, like most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest quantity and poorest quality of stocks of infrastructure assets in the world and this phenomenally poor infrastructure has remained an impediment to development in the country. Decades of sub-optimal investment, poor maintenance culture and the fact that the required infrastructure investments could not be accommodated within the available fiscal space as a result of budgetary constraints have all contributed to the Nigeria‘s infrastructure deficit. The immediate outcome of this however is that the available infrastructure assets across the Nigerian landscape are in decrepit state and absurdly inadequate. Besides, the present demand for basic infrastructure services has grown astronomically out-stripping the supply capacity of the existing ones. Closing the infrastructure financing gap will however require increased investment by private investors through creative financing in an enabling legal and financial environment. Outside the budgetary constraints, the absence of efficient maintenance and management of infrastructure assets and quality service delivery by the public sector are some of the reasons why procurement of public infrastructure stocks by government through the traditional approach is no longer plausible and hence, the general appeal of the public-private partnership framework. However, despite all the potentials, the public private partnership technique in Nigeria has not made an appreciable impact in closing the infrastructure gaps due to lack of access to long-term financing. It is against this back-drop that this study has sought to investigate how reforms of the legal and financial infrastructure could widen access to financing through innovative financial resource mobilization in scaling-up infrastructure development and service delivery to the teeming Nigeria population. Therefore, the central thesis of this study is that the inadequacy of appropriate laws and inefficient financial system are partly responsible for the huge financing gaps in the Nigeria‘s infrastructure market and with the legal and financial reforms, an enabling legal and financial environment that would open up space for resource mobilization through innovative financing techniques and sources will be created thereby widening access to long-term financing and increasing the appetite for private investment in the nation‘s public infrastructure assets and services. So, the overarching objective of this thesis is to explore how legal and financial system reforms can facilitate the development of financial models and instruments that can help mobilize financial resources to fund infrastructure and bridge the huge infrastructure financing gaps in Nigeria in a sustainable fashion. Given the infrastructure poverty that constrains economic growth and development in Nigeria, the outcomes of this proposed study would help inform the need for the legal and financial system reforms to unlock resources in addressing the problems of financing gaps in infrastructure projects development in Nigeria. Besides, such outcomes based on the Nigerian experience in infrastructure financing and development may be turned into valuable knowledge for policy –making and further research in Nigeria. CopyrightThesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Bocci, Corinne Frances. "The Economic Effects of Community Forest Management in the Maya Biosphere Reserve." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1562859893572782.
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Nogueira, Leandro Mendes. "A interpretação de Ignácio Rangel e o Brasil do \"milagre\" e \"antimilagre\" econômico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/31/31131/tde-01032018-122231/.
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Essa dissertação tem como propósito compreender a interpretação de Ignácio Rangel sobre o Brasil, destacando sua análise acerca da transferência de recursos ociosos (presentes no âmbito dos bens de produção, o chamado Departamento I) para as áreas estranguladas da economia (os serviços de utilidade pública), que ocorreria através da concessão de serviços públicos à iniciativa privada. Essa transferência provocaria uma expansão dos serviços de utilidade pública e a consequente expansão da demanda global, e criaria um vigoroso capitalismo financeiro nacional. Essa seria a alternativa rangeliana para a saída da crise dos anos 1980, o período do \"antimilagre\" econômico. Para compreendermos a proposta das concessões, se faz necessário apresentarmos algumas de suas teses: dualidade básica, o eixo estruturador do seu pensamento; dialética da capacidade ociosa; e o papel do Estado e do setor privado. A abordagem do pensamento rangeliano, além do mergulho em sua própria obra, será apoiada na análise da trajetória política e profissional do autor, das relações com seus interlocutores e, também, do diálogo que estabelece, nem sempre explícito, com Caio Prado Jr., Celso Furtado e Florestan Fernandes, intérpretes brasileiros contemporâneos a Rangel, que refletiram sobre a natureza e as especificidades do desenvolvimento brasileiro. Essa análise tem por intuito, afinal, situar as contribuições de Rangel como interpretações relevantes da realidade brasileira.This dissertation aims to understand Ignácio Rangel\'s interpretation of Brazil, highlighting his analysis of the transfer of idle resources (present among production goods, the so-called Department I) to strangled areas of the economy (such as public services), which would occur through the concession of public services to private initiative. This transfer would promote an expansion of public services and a consequent expansion of global demand, and would also create a vigorous national financial capitalism. This would be the Rangelian alternative to face the crisis of the 1980s, the period of Brazil\'s economic \"antimiracle\". In order to understand the concessions proposal, it is necessary to present some of Rangel\'s thesis: the basic duality, the structural axis of his thought; the dialectics of idle capacity dialectics; and the role of the State and the private sector. This approach of the Rangelian thought, besides delving into his writings, is also going to be supported by an analysis of his own political and professional trajectory and by the not always explicit dialogues he establishes with other Brazilian authors such as Caio Prado Jr., Celso Furtado and Florestan Fernandes, who also reflected upon the nature and the specific features of Brazilian development. Finally, this analysis intends to situate Rangel\'s contributions as relevant interpretations of the Brazilian reality
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Maiga, Ahamadou Mohamed. "Les conditions juridiques d'exploitation des ressources minières dans les États de l'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine, UEMOA." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://theses.univ-amu.fr.lama.univ-amu.fr/190611_MAIGA_213kqcigb555r445y995j_TH.pdf.
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Le processus de décolonisation et l’accession à l’indépendance ont permis aux États africains d’affirmer et de consacrer leur souveraineté permanente sur les ressources minières, non seulement sur le plan continental mais également national à travers les constitutions et les législations minières. Cette consécration de la souveraineté permanente sur les ressources minières a eu pour conséquence la création d’un droit d’accès auxdites ressources par le biais du permis miniers d’exploitation, d’un contrat de concession minière ou d’un contrat de partage de production pour toute activité minière d’exploitation. Toutefois, si de façon générale, les procédures d’octroi du permis minier d’exploitation sont communes dans les États membres de l’Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine (UEMOA), une contradiction législative se constate sur la détermination de la nature mobilière ou immobilière dudit permis. Cette contradiction législative joue inévitablement sur l’identification des types de garanties devant être portés sur le permis minier d’exploitation. En sus de cette contradiction législative, l’obtention du permis minier d’exploitation crée nécessairement des droits et obligations à l’égard de l’exploitant minier et de l’État d’accueil. Par conséquent, la présente thèse s’efforcerait d’apporter des réponses à certaines problématiques juridiques liées aux conditions d’exploitation des ressources minières dans les États UEMOA tout en effectuant une analyse sur les effets juridiques liés à l’exploitation des minesThe process of decolonization and independence has enabled African states to assert and devote their permanent sovereignty to mineral resources, not only in continental terms but also nationally through constitutions and mining legislation. This consecration of permanent sovereignty over mineral resources has resulted in the creation of a right of access to these resources by means of the mining exploitation permit, a mining concession contract or a mining sharing contract. production for any mining operation. However, while in general the procedures for granting the mining exploitation permit are common in the Member States of the West African economic and monetary union (UEMOA), there is a legislative contradiction on the determination of the movable nature. or real estate license. This legislative contradiction inevitably affects the identification of the types of guarantees to be included in the mining exploitation permit. In addition to this legislative contradiction, the obtaining of the mining exploitation license necessarily creates rights and obligations with regard to the mining operator and the host State. Therefore, this thesis would seek to provide answers to certain legal issues related to the mining conditions in the UEMOA States while carrying out an analysis on the legal effects related to the exploitation of the mines
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Lebdioui, Amina. "Le régime juridique de l’accès aux réserves d’hydrocarbures, enjeux de la coopération entre Etats producteurs et investisseurs étrangers." Thesis, Paris 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA020082.
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Lorsque l’Etat décide de l’exploration ou de l’exploitation de ses réserves d’hydrocarbures, il n’est soumis à aucune règle internationale quant aux modalités de mise en œuvre de cette décision. Cette absence d’obligations n’a pas empêché les Etats développer, au niveau national, des règles réduisant leur liberté quant à la sélection des opérateurs. Aux négociations secrètes qui ont longtemps prévalu dans le secteur pétrolier, se sont alors substituées des procédures de mise en concurrence ouvertes s’appuyant sur des critères objectifs. Ayant pour but d’attirer l’investissement étranger et de faciliter la conclusion des contrats, elles se sont progressivement généralisées et standardisées, tant dans leur formalisme que dans leurs conditions. On constate alors un processus d’uniformisation globale des conditions d’accès aux réserves, auquel les institutions financières internationales ont directement ou indirectement pris part. L’un des aspects cruciaux des procédures d’attribution des droits a trait au rôle de l’entreprise pétrolière nationale. Celle-ci dispose souvent d’un traitement préférentiel. Dans de nombreux Etats, elle a en outre été traditionnellement chargée de l’octroi des contrats, combinant ainsi des fonctions qui lui ont permis de devenir un acteur incontournable du secteur. La standardisation de ses attributions a également fait l’objet d’un processus de convergence internationale, qui modifie le rapport entre l’Etat et l’investisseur étrangerWhen the State decides to undertake the exploration or exploitation of its hydrocarbons reserves, it is not subject to any international obligation concerning the implementations of such decision. This lack of obligations has not prevented states from developing rules at the national level to reduce their freedom in the selection of operators. The secret negotiations that have long prevailed in the petroleum sector have been replaced by more transparent and open competition procedures, backed by objective criteria. With the objective of attracting foreign investment and facilitating the process of conclusion of contracts, those procedures have been progressively generalized and standardized, both in their formalism and in their terms. We consequently observe a global standardization process of the terms of access to reserves, in which international financial institutions have been directly or indirectly involved.One of the essential aspects of the procedure of rights allocation relates to the role of the national oil company. It enjoys preferential treatment, which has implications on the modalities of participation of foreign firms. Furthermore, in several states, the national oil company has been responsible for granting petroleum contracts, thereby combining functions that render it a key actor in the sector. The standardization of its attributions has also undergone a process of international convergence, which alters the relation between the State and the foreign investor
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Mailula, Douglas Tlogane. "Protection of petrolium resources in Africa : a comparative analysis of oil and gas laws of selected African States." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13610.
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The resource curse is a defining feature of the African content. Despite vast resource wealth, Africa remains the poorest and most underdeveloped continent in the world. The aim of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the primary laws regulating of oil and gas exploration and product activities in Angola, Nigeria and South Africa in order to determine their effectiveness in protecting the continent's depleting petroleum resources. Different regulatory models apply to Angola, following the Norwegian carried-interest model, Nigeria, where a British discretionary model has been retained, an a South africa, where a unique model has been developed. The comparison is conducted by analysing and comparing these different regulatory systems in terms of legal frameworks; the legal nature of the regulatory systems; ownership of the oil and gas resources; legal nature of licenses; organisational or institutional structures; fiscal systems; local communities benefits from these proceeds of oil and gas resources; local content; state/government participation arrangements; and environmental challenges. The study evaluates the effectiveness of these regimes by examining the extent to which they recognise and enforce state ownership of he oil and gas resourcs in situ; recognise and enforce the doctrine of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources (PSNR); protect the environment; how they provide for institutional capacities for the management of resources; and the protection of local communities from exploitation and abuse by recognising their rights to benefit from revenues derived from these resources. An overall assessment of the three systems reveals that there is no ideal model for oil and gas regulation in Africa. The Norwegian model might well be considered an ideal model if it was applied with care and correctly in Angola. The study hopes to gain practical importance for the proper regulationof the oil and gas industries' upstream activities in Africa and assist governments of the selected jurisdictions in their policy revisions, as some recommendations are made.Economics
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Books on the topic "Resource Concessions"
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Policy, New Zealand Energy and Resources Division Resources. Crown Minerals Act, 1991: Transition to a new resource management administration. [Wellington, N.Z.]: Resources Policy, Energy and Resources Division, 1991.
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Lawson, Allison D. Active permitted mine operations in Colorado, 1996-97: Directory. Denver, Colo: Colorado Geological Survey, Dept. of Natural Resources, 1998.
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Hemborg, H. Thomas. Active permitted mine operations in Colorado, 1995-96: Directory. Denver, Colo: Colorado Geological Survey, Dept. of Natural Resources, 1996.
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Duffus, James. Federal lands: Views on reform of recreation concessioners : statement of James Duffus III, Director, Natural Resources Management Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Lands, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1995.
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Seršić, Vanja. Koncesije na pomorskom dobru. Zagreb: Novi informator, 2011.
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Yosemite concession contract: Joint oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands of the Committee on Natural Resources, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on contracting process and proposed Yosemite concession contract, hearing held in Washington, DC, March 24, 1993. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1993.
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands., ed. Yosemite concession contract: Joint oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands of the Committee on Natural Resources, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on contracting process and proposed Yosemite concession contract, hearing held in Washington, DC, March 24, 1993. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1993.
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Office, General Accounting. Forest service: The all-resource system's cost features and areas for future improvements : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1990.
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Office, General Accounting. Forest service: The all-resource system's cost features and areas for future improvements : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1990.
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Office, General Accounting. Forest service: The all-resource system's cost features and areas for future improvements : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1990.
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Vermeulen, Cédric, Cecilia Julve, Jean-Louis Doucet, and David Monticelli. "Community hunting in logging concessions: towards a management model for Cameroon’s dense forests." In Natural Resource Management and Local Development, 169–82. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0174-8_10.
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Kelly, Ashley Scott, and Xiaoxuan Lu. "Locating Discourses and Narratives for Intervention." In Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative, 57–84. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4067-4_4.
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AbstractThis chapter, Locating discourses and narratives for intervention, argues that planners and designers engaging in “critical” landscape planning need a proactive, rigorous and reflective approach to assembling the discourses in their projects. Drawing from a selection of articles on the recent political economy and ecology of Laos from post-development theory, cultural anthropology, sociology, political science, political geography, and political ecology, we survey four areas that function as conceptual drivers of the strategic planning proposals featured in Part Two of this book. These areas are (1) The politics of land-use planning and its deployment in the state’s territorial strategies; (2) A brief recounting of origins, since the 1980s, of the paradigm of sustainable development as it was imposed on regulatory institutions of the Global South; (3) The ways large-scale resource extraction is reproduced at capitalism’s frontiers via complex and overlapping patchworks of relations between large-scale infrastructures, state land concessions, and their administration at various scales; and (4) Discourse on “infrastructure” as a concept and our capacity to plan and assess it. These sections are held together by their constructivist and critical theory approaches, focus on the means and ends of neoliberalism, and undercurrents of authority, expertise and the politics of intervention.
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Rochow, K. W. James. "Concession reviews: Liberian experience and prospects for effective internationalized solutions." In Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, 481–500. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Earthscan, 2015. | Series: Post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management: Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203109793-22.
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Mahanty, Sango. "Frontier Rupture." In Unsettled Frontiers, 98–117. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501761478.003.0005.
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This chapter looks at the disruptive synergies between smallholder agriculture, largescale plantations, and other landscape transitions in Mondulkiri. Focusing on two settlements in Mondulkiri, the chapter tracks the emergence of a postboom rupture at the site of a large rubber concession, which interacts with accumulated environmental and social pressures, such as debt, soil, and resource exhaustion. It shows how the disparate social groups experience the effects of these transformations differently. The chapter then jumps to demonstrate how land and migration interact with smallholder crop booms and economic land concessions (ELCs) for rubber. It then discusses the lowland village of Phum Prambei, and illustrates how a combination of smallholder markets, timber extraction, ELCs, land depletion, and debt have escalated livelihood pressures and environmental change.
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"Ceasefire capitalism: military–private partnerships, resource concessions, and military–state building in the Burma–China borderlands." In New Frontiers of Land Control, 87–110. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203720455-8.
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Doughman, Richard Clayton. "Might the Keys to Peace Open the Doors to Extractivism?" In Advances in Public Policy and Administration, 444–70. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9675-4.ch022.
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The present paper explores what the ongoing peace talks between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército Popular (FARC-EP) may mean to Colombia's growing extractive economy. Militarization during the decades-long conflict and the spike in rural, state and paramilitary violence under former President Alvaro Uribe Vélez's (2000-2008) have left an unequal land structure favorable to resource extraction by foreign multinational corporations. Concessions for mining and oil exploration now cover a large percentage of Colombian territory, and the policy environment has become ever more welcoming to foreign capital. While armed conflict has opened new territories for resource exploitation, the instability it has created could deter long-term foreign investment. This paper hypothesizes that current President Juan Manuel Santos's pursuit of peace with the FARC-EP aims to enhance conditions for intensified resource extraction in Colombia in consonance with the regional trend toward a recolonization of Latin America's natural commons.
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Yang, Kenneth C. C., and Yowei Kang. "Social Media, Political Mobilization, and Citizen Engagement." In Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media, 360–88. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1081-9.ch020.
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On March 18, 2014, a group of student protestors raided and occupied the Legislative Yuan and later the Executive Yuan in Taiwan. The student-led movement lasted for about 3 weeks after Taiwan's President made significant concessions to change his non-transparent practices when signing the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) with People's Republic of China. Mostly labelled as a movement of civil disobedience against government's dealings with China, the 318 Sunflower Student Movement is viewed as an important step toward the deepening of Taiwan's democratization process. Its repercussions were felt in Hong-Kong and Macao where similar civil disobedience movements had emerged. On the basis of the resource mobilization theory (RMT), the authors used a combination of case study and thematic analysis methods to examine the role of social media in political mobilization in Taiwan. This chapter identified two major recurrent themes as follows: challenging mainstream media and mobilizing multi-movement resources.
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López-Rodríguez, Fausto. "Mangrove in Ecuador: Conservation and Management Strategies." In Coastal Environments. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.95572.
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In Ecuador, 100% of the mangroves are protected through different mechanisms: protected areas, community mangrove concessions, and protective forests. However, there is still deforestation of the mangroves, even in protected areas, which is caused mainly by the construction/expansion of shrimp pools. Shrimp is currently Ecuador’s first non-oil export product. The Sustainable Use and Mangrove Custody Agreements are very important because they cover an area almost similar to that of protected areas. This mechanism is effective because it allows the sustainable extraction of resources from the mangrove, but forces the “custodians” to protect this ecosystem. This chapter includes a case study on the management of the “mangrove concessions” of the province of El Oro, southern Ecuador, in which the management effectiveness of these areas is analyzed. We found that despite the limited resources that these mangrove concessions have, the level of management is “satisfactory”, which means that most of the management objectives are met. However, these areas should receive more support, both from the state and private organizations, as they conserve more than 40% of Ecuador’s mangrove.
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Omer, Mohamed Abdi, and Mohamed Farah Hersi. "Exploitation of Natural Resources as a Driver of Conflict." In War and Peace in Somalia, 127–36. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190947910.003.0010.
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Local conflicts in Somalia have many sources, and the extraction of natural resources carries a risk of igniting new conflict or exacerbating old feuds. This chapter considers the case of a mining concession granted by authorities to a Chinese company for the extraction of beryllium at a site in the Awdal region of Somaliland. This has generated strong objections from communities that believe they will be deprived of the economic and employment benefits of the mine; pastoralists who have concerns about the mine's ecological impact; artisan miners who fear they may be put out of work; and local government, which feels it has been cut out of the arrangement. The concession has also catalysed inter-clan conflict about the potential beneficiaries. The case underscores the need for clear thinking about laws and policies relating to resource exploitation, in order to maximize the potential benefits for communities and minimize the likelihood of conflict.
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Sanchis-Ibor, Carles, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Juan Valero de Palma, and Marta García-Mollá. "Water allocation in Spain. Legal framework, instruments and emerging debates." In Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture, 93–104. IWA Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/9781789062786_0093.
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Abstract Spain has a tradition of water management and allocation based on a dual model of water rights, where surface water is public, but groundwater has historically been considered a private resource. The Water Law (1985) created a new concessional system for the assignment of water rights to users of both resources, controlled by the State, but preserving the historical rights. Water allocation, in practice, is determined by the resources and demands that are estimated in the water planning documents. Therefore, water allocation is granted by River Basin Authorities and depends on water availability, social and environmental priorities, and the system operating rules. It is an institutional model of water allocation, under State control, but partially open to participation and negotiation with users. The main weakness of the Spanish water allocation model derives from the application, during the 20th century, of an excessively generous policy of water rights allocation and the lack of control of water uses. This policy has led to the overallocation of water rights and groundwater overexploitation in some basins, generating structural deficits, dramatic environmental impacts and significant social and territorial tensions. This context, which hinders the implementation of environmental flows, has required the design of different programmes and plans to control water uses, and the introduction of new legal instruments to stimulate water rights temporal exchanges.
Conference papers on the topic "Resource Concessions"
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Pilaquinga, Santiago, Angel Vaca, and Paul Vasquez. "Renewable resources concession-based funding mechanism for attaining large-scale power plants." In 2018 IEEE Third Ecuador Technical Chapters Meeting (ETCM). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/etcm.2018.8580290.
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James, Mendos. "The Contract Regime for Unitisation and the Impact of Production Sharing Contracts on Joint Development in Nigeria." In SPE Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/208230-ms.
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Abstract Unitisation has evolved globally as the best mechanism for the joint development of hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs that straddle two or more concessions or licenses. The concept of unitisation is underpinned by the need to avoid competitive exploitation of hydrocarbon resources, maximise its economic recovery, eliminate proliferation of production facilities and reduce development and operating cost.1 The practice of unitisation in the Nigerian oil and gas landscape has gained traction over the years with several straddle fields identified as candidates for unitisation and more than ten (10) agreements for joint development (both Pre Unitisation Agreements and Unitisation and Unit Operating Agreements) executed in the industry. This has occurred under a regulatory regime for unitisation that has evolved from the concise provisions of Section 48 of the Petroleum (Drilling and Production) Regulation 1969 as amended, to the robust Guidelines for Unitisation issued by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in 2008 (revised in 2019) (Guidelines) in response to the complexities of joint development encountered by parties. While the Guidelines is an excellent attempt at providing a process for unitisation, it does not provide sufficient guidance on the contract regime for unitisation as the bedrock for joint development. A critical look at the contracts governing joint development in the light of global best practices is important to ensure that it meets in an effective manner the objectives of unitisation. A review of the contract regime for unitisation would be incomplete without recognising the impact that underlying contracts governing separate concessions have on unitisation. To this end, the posture of Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) on gas development in a unit is worth reviewing in the light of the benefits of commercialising gas to the State and the Contractor. This paper reviews the contract regime for unitisation in Nigeria as regulated by the Guidelines and the impact that underlying contracts (particularly PSCs) have on unitisation. The paper will proffer recommendations for inclusion in the Guidelines with a view to improving the process of joint development of shared reservoirs in Nigeria.
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Stavrovski, Boris. "Utility and Flexibility Functions for Potential Customers in B2B E-Commerce Transactions." In 2002 Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2575.
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One of the most evident premises for successful E-Commerce transaction should lie in as much detailed recognition of personal customers’ differentiation as it becomes possible through the usage of multiple data resources available over the Internet. The methodical basis for the evaluation and subsequent utilization of all available data may be formed under the well known concepts of the utility theory. A new quantitative measure of the personal readiness for acceptable concessions in E-Commerce transaction (when the item under the consideration have been already chosen) is proposed in a form of so called flexibility functions for potential customers. Flexibility functions are shown to be useful also as a measure of the personal readiness for changes in a scale of attractiveness for all admissible items. The simple algorithms for the derivation of flexibility functions alongside with the particular examples from the commercial real estate field are further discussed.
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Kritsadativud, P., P. Sivapiromrat, T. Limprasert, S. Srihirunrusmee, J. Whangkitjamorn, P. Navasumrit, T. Roatkanjanaporn, et al. "Prolonging Gas Production until the End of Concession by Optimizing Existing Resources: A Case Study from Greater Bongkot South Field Development Strategy." In Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/188178-ms.
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Keçi, Julinda. "Infrastructure Public Private Partnership Implementation and Risk Management – Lessons from Albanian Approach." In IABSE Symposium, Guimarães 2019: Towards a Resilient Built Environment Risk and Asset Management. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/guimaraes.2019.0900.
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<p>Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are being frequently used today to offer large infrastructure projects in the Western Balkan. In a small country like Albania, today there are more than 170 infrastructure PPPs, counted mainly in hydropower and road sector. Their application aims to provide funds to reduce the existing gap between the available budget and public expenses, expand investments in infrastructure as a major drive of economic development, improve the quality of services and the efficiency of project delivery, optimize resource utilization, commercial valuation of public assets and achieve optimal risk allocation.</p><p>The purpose of this paper is to study and review the application of PPPs for large infrastructure projects, highlighting lessons learnt from Albanian approach. The focus will be on implementation framework and risk management. The study uses a combined approach: questionnaire survey- targeting the applied PPPs in Albania- to identify the main risks encountered and their allocation preferences, and case study approach to investigate the phenomena within its real-life context. Three case studies are chosen: Mother Teresa Airport Terminal, as a representative of infrastructure project, in its operation phase; ASHTA HPP, as representative of a PPP in hydro energy, in its operation phase; Devolli HPP, as a hydropower concession, in its construction phase. Observations and documentation review-aimed to identify the phases and procedures, and semi structure interviews- aimed to identify the main risks, their allocation and treatment, are used.</p><p>The findings of the study are organized in three parts: First, the qualitative study identified the mostly used PPPs, their main risks and allocation preferences. Secondly, the case study review and third, lessons learned for future applications, such as the need for lifecycle value for money analysis on procurement methods, unsolicited proposals implications, lack of negotiation phase contractual cost implication, lack of social assessment requirement.</p>
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Takahashi, Koji, Shinichi Urabe, Shuichi Umeno, Keiji Kozawa, Isao Fukuda, and Takeo Kondo. "Port Logistics Policy of Japanese Government for Strengthening Global Competitiveness of Industry in Case of Ocean Space Utilization." In ASME 2013 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2013-11226.
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A port logistics is classified into two kinds, a container logistics and a bulk logistics. In the field of a container logistics, a terminal operator pursues large-scale management of its container terminals by global M&A corresponding to the global growth of the container handling number, which resulted in container terminal operators’ oligopolization. In the field of a bulk freight logistics, the private enterprises, which invest in and improve port equipment by themselves, are changing in the direction to reduce number of handling ports and to invest in port equipment intensively corresponding to the vigorous resource demand of the world. The economic activities of the private enterprises are progressing on the basis of the management strategy which differs between “oligopolization” of a container logistics and “selection and concentration” of a bulk freight logistics. On the other hand, since management of ports is the basis supporting a national logistics, each country of the world carries out various public participations, such as a legal support and a financial support. For example, in Japan, although ‘a port authority system’ was brought to Japan almost 60 years ago by U.S.A. and the management right of main ports were transferred to local governments from national government, Japanese government has been taking the lead in implementation of many policies to strength global competitiveness of industry reflecting the flow of global privatization and concession. Recently, many countries have been changing their public participation policies. A country has established the system which increases private investment and reduces public financial support since capital investment remaining power has decreased according to aggravation of the finances of national government and local governments. The other country has established the system which backs up logistics activity with public support. This paper, to utilize ocean space, will show a port logistics policy of Japanese government, particularly the historical flow and the prospective view of the public participation to a port logistics based on the logistics trend of the world.
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Yudhy, Muhammad Riandhy Anindika. "Innovative Reverse Engineering Approach in Design and Construction of New Gas Processing Facility in Brown Field Block Through Optimum Utilization of Excess Materials and Idle Equipment to Improve Capital Stewardship and Inventory Management. Case Study: Field X Associated Gas Recovery Project." In Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/207771-ms.
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Abstract Successful project management boils down to effectively and efficiently managing resources to meet the project's cost and schedule. The ability to manage project effectively becomes increasingly important to recover capital project expenditures in expiring Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) blocks. The longer the time needed for a project to complete, the higher the project capital and the lower the capital recovery. Referring to look back result of several major capital facility projects, the key challenge in meeting the project cost and schedule is related to procurement of long lead materials and key process equipment. In brown field blocks, there is an opportunity to perform reverse engineering by optimally utilizing the excess materials in the warehouse and idle/unused process equipment to solve the key challenges. As additional benefit, utilization of excess materials and idle process equipment will improve inventory management and capital stewardship, since the cost to relocate and modify the equipment are significantly lower than the cost of buying a new equipment. Field X Associated Gas Recovery Project (AGRP) provided an excellent case study of successful reverse engineering approach using excess material and idle equipment in design and construction of a new gas processing facility in brown field block. Field X AGRP is designed to recover and process associated gas from X field to be used as fuel gas for the gas turbines at the internal Power Generation Plant. However, based on lesson learned from similar opportunity in the past, the cost of construction and installation of a new gas processing facility using new construction materials and new process equipment is very high, which is uneconomic at the current oil price environment. Therefore, to make the project economic, the project team shall consider the utilization of available excess material in the warehouse and idle/unused equipment into design basis. Project team conducted assessment to several facilities across the concession area to gather equipment specification data of idle process equipment and the size of available excess materials. The gas processing facility design was reverse engineered to optimally utilize the idle process equipment and excess materials. The utilization of idle equipment and excess material in construction of the gas processing facility has successfully generated cost saving up to 5 times the project cost from avoiding purchase of new equipment and new construction materials. The project successfully recovered associated gas at the rate of 0.5 MMSCFD to be used as fuel to gas turbine and produced 60 BOPD condensate from gas-liquid separation process
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Tomlinson, Brian. Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD): Game changer or mirage? ActionAid, AidWatch Canada, Oxfam International, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2021.7390.
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Total Official Support for Sustainable Development, or TOSSD, is a new statistical metric that has been in the making for almost 10 years. It is meant to capture a broad range of global flows of public money in support of sustainable development. These include aid, loans on non-concessional terms, and public funds aimed at mobilising private finance for development. Metrics matter. It is essential to track the resources that the international community is allocating to turn the ambitions of Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into reality. Without such data, it is impossible to determine whether there is progress. ActionAid, AidWatch Canada and Oxfam International are publishing this discussion paper to shed light on how TOSSD works in practice as well as on its ambitions, shortcomings and the contending political perspectives on this new metric. The paper emphasizes that TOSSD could significantly shape the future of development finance.
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Ketterer, Juan, Adrián Ortega Andrade, Juan Martínez Álvarez, and Daniel Fonseca. Financial Solutions for Development: National Infrastructure Platforms. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004654.
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This paper presents a new public policy instrument, national infrastructure platforms (NIPs), to promote investment in sustainable infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean. The region has important infrastructure deficits that limit its ability to meet challenges of economic growth, climate change, and social inclusion and equality. NIPs will allow countries to maximize the use of public, multilateral, and concessional financing resources to promote socioeconomic development. Specifically, since the infrastructure challenges of the region will not be met with public funding, NIPs will permit countries to optimize the role of public investment as a financial enabler for private investment, prioritizing climate change resilience through sustainable infrastructure. This document outlines the structure of NIPs and their three main functions: project preparation, de-risking, and financial structuring. These respectively identify and prioritize projects, incorporate the necessary risk mitigation instruments, and structure and deliver bankable projects until they successfully reach their commercial and financial closing stages.