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Carlos Novaes and Rui Cunha Marques
Policies, Institutions and Regulation (PIR) aspects matter for different sectors? growth and inclusive sustainable development, but there is little information in the literature on how to evaluate the effects of PIR on management options and outcomes or,...
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Rui Cunha Marques, Pedro Simões, Inês Machete and Thalita Fagundes
Water access is recognized as a human right by the United Nations since 2010. However, even when piped water is available, the economic crisis has limited poorer households to afford those services on a regular basis. Users become debtors as utilities fa...
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Sónia Lima, Ana Brochado and Rui Cunha Marques
This study focused on the unbalanced relationships that can arise in current public?private partnership (PPP) risk management frameworks, especially in developing countries? water sectors. Different stakeholders? perceptions of risk management were exami...
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Gabriel Stumpf Duarte de Carvalho and Rui Cunha Marques
Different mechanisms have been adopted by developed and developing countries over the last decades to provide urban bus services. Although competitive tendering has been considered the standard method to procure urban bus services, it cannot be treated a...
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Daniel Antonio Narzetti and Rui Cunha Marques
Access to water and sanitation services (WSS) in developing countries is constrained by the conditions of social inequality and the services affordability for the poorest households. Therefore, public policies related to WSS need to broaden in scope give...
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Rui Cunha Marques and Pedro Simões
The controversy between the performance of public and private ownership of water and wastewater services is common worldwide. In most cases, this discussion is biased due to ideological issues or insufficiency or inconsistency of information. This study ...
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Pedro Carvalho and Rui Cunha Marques
This paper proposes a methodology to examine economies of scope using the recent order-a nonparametric method. It allows us to investigate economies of scope by comparing the efficient order-a frontiers of firms that produce two or more goods with the ef...
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