Environmental Finance for the Developing World

This book serves as a useful guide for practicing professionals, industry executives, and government officials who work with water and wastewater utilities and infrastructure and are involved with financial project preparation.

Michael Curley is a lawyer and a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. He writes books about environmental law and finance and has taught at the Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University and the Vermont Law School. In 2018-19, he provided the Environmental Commentary on Maryland's public radio station, WYPR. Michael has worked in 40 countries and has built clean water and basic sanitation systems in Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. And when he's not doing that, he's writing novels and short stories...

Chapter 1 Financing the Global Environment Chapter 2 Measuring Income Chapter 3 Maximizing Cash Available for Debt Service Chapter 4 Loan Basics Chapter 5 Project Valuation Chapter 6 Financial Feasibility Chapter 7 Alternative Finance Options Chapter 8 Sources of Funds Chapter 9 Cost/Benefit Analysis Chapter 10 Tariff Design Chapter 11 Subsidies