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Thesis (Ph.D.)--RAND Graduate School, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 2003. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-129)

Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2005--Hamburg.

Thesis (M.A.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2007. / "Master of Art in arbitration and dispute resolution, LW6409 dissertation" Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 22, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2006. / "Master of Art in arbitration and dispute resolution, LW6409-dissertation" Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 22, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O papel do Estado ao longo do Historia foi bem diversificado, ora com um caráter interventor, e ora com uma postura de regular o mínimo necessário. Esta última postura, proporcionou grandes déficit no setor de infraestrutura, desequilíbrios sociais, favelização, loteamentos irregulares e a não efetivação do direito à moradia. Deste modo, o Estado precisou ampliar a sua atuação na regularização do solo, visando uma regularização fundiária plena que incluiria desde a instalação da urbanização e infraestrutura adequada à concessão de títulos reconhecendo a posse e/ou propriedade do indivíduo. Suprir a carência de infraestrutura, urbanização e organização do solo que se acumularam nas últimas décadas, esbarra na falência fiscal do Estado Brasileiro, que precisa tomar para si a responsabilidade da regularização, mas, principalmente buscar parcerias com o setor privado. A atuação das organizações sociais, das organizações da sociedade civil de interesse público e as parcerias público-privadas precisam ser ampliadas na efetivação da regularização fundiária. Necessário se faz que o investimento não seja exclusivamente público, possibilitando conceder ao parceiro privado, através da utilização de certos instrumentos jurídicos do próprio Estatuto da Cidade como uma contraprestação interessante a este parceiro. Somente vivenciando uma interpretação e aplicação conjunta dos instrumentos jurídicos à disposição do Estado aliado a vontade política, que poderá ser garantido o desenvolvimento prometido à população brasileira e a efetivação do direito constitucional à moradia. / The role of the state throughout the history was very diverse, sometimes with an intervening trend, and sometimes with a will to regulate the minimum necessary. The latter approach, fedback huge deficits in the infrastructure sector, social imbalances, slums, subdivisions and non realization of housing rights. Thus, the state needed to expand its participation in the settlement of the soil to a full regularization since that would include the installation of urbanization and infrastructure appropriate to the granting of property papers recognizing the possession and / or the individual property. Addressing the lack of infrastructure, urbanization and organization of the soil that have accumulated in recent decades, is barred by the failure of the Brazilian tax, which must take upon itself the responsibility of the settlement, but mainly to seek partnerships with the private sector. The role of social organizations of civil society organizations in the public interest and public-private partnerships need to be broadened in the effectiveness of regularization. Investment shold not be only public, enabling grant to the private partner, through the use of certain legal instruments of the Statute of the City itself as a form of consideration to this interesting partner. Only experimenting a combined interpretation and application of legal instruments available to the State together with a political will, which may be secured to the Brazilian population the promised development and realization of the constitutional right to housing.

One of the main sources of risks that influence potential project success is the project selection decision, especially for international contractor organisations looking for an opportunity to invest in public private partnership projects in foreign countries. Project selection decision, which involves the bid/no bid decision, is a critical investment decision needs to be made based on concrete project evaluation and risks identifications; where negative-risk is in place if there is an absence of a rational basis at the time of making such a decision. Thus, negative consequences of such a decision might occur. The bid/no bid decision necessitates an effective project evaluation and risk identification from various aspects with consideration of several internal and external factors in order to achieve project success. Bidding for PPP projects overseas without efficiently applying risk management tools and techniques to evaluate both the project and the organisation’s current situation and capability might result either in large losses or consumption of time and resources that could have been avoided. The prime aim of this research is to develop a strategic investment decision model from the perspective of risk management, in order to facilitate the decisions of international contractors who intend to invest in public private partnership projects in the Saudi Arabian construction industry. This aim requires establishing a link between the risk management process and the organisation's strategy and its current situation, and identifying risks involved in the bid/no bid decision, PPP projects, and international investment in order to provide an effective computer-based model that is capable of organising the bid/no bid decision in a rational, logical, flexible, and user-friendly manner. The pragmatic triangulation philosophy approach is adopted as the best research methodology that allows two types of research strategy to be combined in order to accomplish the research aim and objectives. Thus, the methods used are qualitative interviews and a quantitative questionnaire-based survey. The findings of this research identified critical success factors of international contractors’ bidding decisions for PPP projects in the Saudi Arabian construction industry. In particular, seventy-seven factors affecting the bid/no bid decision were used as a foundation for development of a Strategic Risk Management Decision Model (SRMDM), available at www.srmdm.com.

This article analyzes the need to adopt a strictly contractual vision of the concession contract, that limits the discretionary actions of the State, in order to allow legal framework permit the development of infraestructure for public use. / En el presente artículo se analiza la necesidad de adoptar una visión estrictamentecontractual del contrato de concesión, que limite las actuaciones discrecionales del Estado, a fin de que el marco legal aplicable permita el desarrollo de la infraestructura de uso público.

The present article seeks to show the aplication of the mutability principle in amendments on concession contracts that are made on the legal frame of public-private partnership, giving a doctrinaire vision and also the Peruvian normative treatment. / El presente artículo busca dar luces de la aplicación del principio de mutabilidad en la modificación de los contratos de concesión que se realizan bajo el marco jurídico de asociaciones público-privadas, dando una reflexión doctrinaria y su contraparte normativa en el sistema peruano.