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Public banks, public water: exploring the links in Europe (2022)
Journal Article
Marois, T., & McDonald, D. A. Public banks, public water: exploring the links in Europe. Water International, 47(5), 673-690. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2022.2098629

Public banks have played an important role in financing public water and sanitation services in Europe for over a century, but these activities have been largely ignored in the academic literature. This special issue is an initial corrective to this... Read More about Public banks, public water: exploring the links in Europe.

Untapping the sustainable water bank’s public financing for Dutch drinking water companies (2022)
Journal Article
Schwartz, K., & Marois, T. (2022). Untapping the sustainable water bank’s public financing for Dutch drinking water companies. Water International, 47(5), 691-710. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2022.2080518

The Dutch Water Bank (NWB), which was created in the 1950s, still provides long-term, low-cost, low-risk patient and appropriate financing to public entities. It is a model that has worked, but not without room for improvement. The NWB has an opportu... Read More about Untapping the sustainable water bank’s public financing for Dutch drinking water companies.

Shaping the future of EIB Global: Reclaiming public purpose in development finance (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Marois, T. Shaping the future of EIB Global: Reclaiming public purpose in development finance. Brussels

Finance and development are intertwined. The challenge of
amassing the right amounts and kinds of financing that are
needed to build infrastructure, support trade and industry,
enable high-quality public services, grow agriculture, foster
communi... Read More about Shaping the future of EIB Global: Reclaiming public purpose in development finance.

Public Banks, Public Purpose, and Early Actions in the Face of Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Barrowclough, D., & Marois, T. (2022). Public Banks, Public Purpose, and Early Actions in the Face of Covid-19. Review of Political Economy, 34(2), 372-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2021.1996704

With the outbreak of the global Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns, economic activity came to a grinding halt as demands for financial support in health, business, and government skyrocketed. In spring 2020 we assembled a team of experts to c... Read More about Public Banks, Public Purpose, and Early Actions in the Face of Covid-19.