Public-Private Partnerships in Emerging Economies

Public-Private Partnerships in Emerging Economies
Author: Augustine Edobor Arimoro
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000215539

Over the years, a shortage of funds has resulted in a huge deficit in government budgets for infrastructure, especially in developing economies. It is no longer feasible for governments to bear the entire burden of funding public infrastructure. Given that an inadequate supply of public infrastructure poses a challenge for the economic development of any country, partnerships with the private sector to fund public infrastructure procurement has started to be relied on as an alternative to traditional public procurement. Public-Private Partnerships are an arrangement that allow private entities to fund, design, manage and operate public infrastructure for a term in exchange for the payment of tolls by users or the government may well be the solution to the infrastructure crisis in many developing economies. This book examines the role of law in the adoption, implementation and regulation of Public-Private Partnership in selected developing economies including Brazil, India, Nigeria and South Africa to address how to deal with overlapping laws and how the law can protect assets invested in PPP in order to attract private sector interests in infrastructure financing in developing market, showing how law can be used to create, sustain and promote PPP frameworks that take into account local circumstances in developing economies.

The Role of the Judiciary in Environmental Governance

The Role of the Judiciary in Environmental Governance
Author: Louis J. Kotzé
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9041127089

This important book investigates the environmental legal frameworks, court structures and relevant jurisprudence of nineteen countries, representing legal systems and legal cultures from a diverse array of countries situated across the globe. In doing so, it distils comparative trends, new developments, and best practices in adjudication endeavours, highlighting the benefits and shortcomings of the judicial approach to environmental governance.

Commercial and Economic Law in South Africa

Commercial and Economic Law in South Africa
Author: Philip Stoop
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9403509856

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law covering merchants’ status and obligations – including the laws governing state intervention in economic activities – in South Africa provides quick and easy guidance on such commercial and economic matters as business assets, negotiable instruments, commercial securities, and regulation of the conditions of commercial transactions. Lawyers who handle transnational business will appreciate the explanation of local variations in terminology and the distinctive concepts that determine practice and procedure. Starting with a general description of the specifically applicable concepts and sources of commercial law, the book goes on to discuss such factors as obligations of economic operators and institutions, goodwill, broker/client relations, commercial property rights, and bankruptcy. Discussion of economic law covers the laws governing establishment, supervision of economic activities, competition law, and government taxation incentives. These details are presented in such a way that readers who are unfamiliar with specific terms and concepts in varying contexts will fully grasp their meaning and significance. Thorough yet practical, this convenient volume is a valuable tool for business executives and their legal counsel with international interests. Lawyers representing parties with interests in South Africa will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative commercial and economic law.

Handbook of Public Management in Africa

Handbook of Public Management in Africa
Author: Gerrit van der Waldt
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1803929391

This forward-thinking Handbook provides a thorough and comprehensive guide on the positive prospects for public management and governance across the African continent. Exploring best practices learned by public management and governments in the region, this book examines Africa’s ability to leapfrog developed nations in the adoption and adaptation of managerial models, techniques and applications for government.

The Law and Politics of Sustainability

The Law and Politics of Sustainability
Author: Klaus Bosselmann
Publisher: Berkshire Publishing Group
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2010-11-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1933782560

The Law and Politics of Sustainability explores efforts made to address pressing environmental concerns through legislation, conventions, directives, treaties, and protocols. Articles explain the mechanics of environmental law, the concepts that shape sustainable development, case studies and rulings that have set precedents, approaches to sustainable development taken by legal systems around the world, and more. Experts and scholars in the field raise provocative questions about the effectiveness of international law versus national law in protecting the environment, and about the effect of current laws on future generations. They analyze the successes and shortcomings of present legal instruments, corporate and public policies, social movements, and conceptual strategies, offering readers a preview of the steps necessary to develop laws and policies that will promote genuine sustainability.

Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change

Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change
Author: Steven A. Boutcher
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2023-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789907675

The study of law and social movements provides an ideal lens for rethinking fundamental questions about the relationship between law and power. This Research Handbook takes up that challenge, framing a new, more global, dynamic, reflexive, and contextualised phase of social movement studies.

Sustainability Assessment

Sustainability Assessment
Author: Alan James Bond
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0415598486

Currently the writing on the subject is limited and comprises, for the most part, guidance documents and completed assessments.

International Corporate Law - Volume 1

International Corporate Law - Volume 1
Author: Fiona Macmillan
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2000-03-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1841130370

This book contains essays and country reports from across the globe in the area of international and comparative corporate law.