Planning water distribution networks involves many actors, including water companies, governments, environmentalists, consumers and financing institutions, and they tend to have conflicting perspectives.
The combined efforts of active homeowners, private businesses, the project management unit, state authorities and international financing institutions led to successful implementation of the Energy Efficiency Housing Pilot Project in Lithuania.
The report - Under the Rug: How Governments and International Institutions are Hiding Billions in Support to the Coal Industry – looked at the various money flows between government-backed investment banks and major public financing institutions.
Under the bill those countries would automatically face a cutoff of United States aid, other than food and medical supplies, restrictions on exports and American opposition to loans by international financing institutions.
This question came to my mind as I sat in my Jerusalem office this week and read the new directives published by the European Union that prohibit it from financing institutions, like research and nonprofit groups, in academia, culture, science and sport, in Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights.
If the Obama Administration plans and builds public-private-infrastructure financing institutions now, with an eye on the recession's aftermath, it might help mitigate the next bubble (green mutual funds, anyone?) before it inflates — or at least ensure that some portion of the next bubbly brew of global capital is invested in support of American productivity.
"Unesco is not a financing institution," Mr. Matsuura said.
PWRF is initially designed as a co-financing credit facility combining official development assistance (ODA) with private financing institution funds.
GCF is the only multilateral financing institution set up with the sole goal of supporting the UNFCCC's climate objectives.
As the venture grew, the company sold off additional equity and I found attractive debt financing from a regional development financing institution.
The Hospital Transfer Act of 1973 transformed the CCSS from a merely financing institution into the main hospital care provider in the country.
