OECD Studies on Water Reform of Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment in Lithuania Practical Options to Foster Consolidation of Utilities
OECD Studies on Water Reform of Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment in Lithuania Practical Options to Foster Consolidation of Utilities

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2022-09-22

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9264852530

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Since 2006 Lithuania has taken steps to ensure higher operational efficiency and to reduce the disparity in prices for water supply and sanitation services. However, progress has been slow. Concerns have emerged regarding representation of small municipalities in consolidated utilities and increased costs for some consumers. Reform of Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment in Lithuania presents practical options to implement the national strategy towards the consolidation of water supply and sanitation services in Lithuania as a tool to foster operational efficiency and financial sustainability of the sector.

OECD Studies on Water Water Financing and Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia Highlights of a National Dialogue on Water
OECD Studies on Water Water Financing and Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia Highlights of a National Dialogue on Water

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 9264451692

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This report presents the policy recommendations resulting from the National Dialogue on Water in Indonesia, which took place between June 2022 and March 2023. Getting water resources management right, underpinned with appropriate financing mechanisms, is a prerequisite for realising Indonesia’s ambitious national economic growth agenda to become one of the top five global economies by 2045. The Dialogue, therefore, centred around two priority areas: 1) financing water infrastructure and 2) non-structural measures for flood disaster risk reduction. The report explores several instruments to enhance the financing of water services in Indonesia, such as the advantages and disadvantages of uniform water tariffs, independent economic regulation, pollution charges and demand management instruments. The report recommends the utilisation of land value capture as an additional source of financing. It also explores how water information systems for disaster response, flood forecasting and early warning can reduce flood disaster risk. The National Dialogue on Water in Indonesia is part of a regional initiative with the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea, the Asia Water Council and the OECD.

Towards Climate Resilience and Neutrality in Latin America and the Caribbean Key Policy Priorities
Towards Climate Resilience and Neutrality in Latin America and the Caribbean Key Policy Priorities

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2023-10-06

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 9264367454

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This report identifies LAC countries’ main climate change policy priorities, which were discussed through a series of Regional Policy Dialogues and Expert Workshops and complements these with findings of recent analyses by the OECD and other international partners. It explores issues related to their implementation on climate adaptation, mitigation, and cross-cutting policy areas.

OECD Studies on Water Financing Water Supply, Sanitation and Flood Protection Challenges in EU Member States and Policy Options
OECD Studies on Water Financing Water Supply, Sanitation and Flood Protection Challenges in EU Member States and Policy Options

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2020-05-27

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 9264664386

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The OECD and the Directorate-General for Environment, the European Commission department responsible for EU policy on the environment, joined forces to examine current and future water-related financing challenges faced by EU member states. These include investments needed to comply with EU regulation for water supply, wastewater collection and treatment, and flood protection.

Reforming Infrastructure
Reforming Infrastructure

Author: Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.

OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook 2021
OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook 2021

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9264852395

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This edition of the OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook reviews developments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic for government borrowing needs, funding conditions and funding strategies in the OECD area.

Towards Green Growth
Towards Green Growth

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Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13:

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This book provides measurement tools, including indicators, to support countries' efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which well-being relies. The strategy proposes a flexible policy framework that can be tailored to different country circumstances and stages of development. This report accompanies the synthesis report Towards Green Growth.

Lifelines
Lifelines

Author: Stephane Hallegatte

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1464814317

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Infrastructure—electricity, telecommunications, roads, water, and sanitation—are central to people’s lives. Without it, they cannot make a living, stay healthy, and maintain a good quality of life. Access to basic infrastructure is also a key driver of economic development. This report lays out a framework for understanding infrastructure resilience - the ability of infrastructure systems to function and meet users’ needs during and after a natural hazard. It focuses on four infrastructure systems that are essential to economic activity and people’s well-being: power systems, including the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity; water and sanitation—especially water utilities; transport systems—multiple modes such as road, rail, waterway, and airports, and multiple scales, including urban transit and rural access; and telecommunications, including telephone and Internet connections.