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THOMAS MAROIS's Outputs (74)

A Climate Bank for Viet Nam to Catalyze Green and Just Transitions (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Marois, T., & Volz, U. (2024). A Climate Bank for Viet Nam to Catalyze Green and Just Transitions. Hanoi

A new public climate bank with a focused policy mandate on climate action supported by international development finance institutions could help Viet Nam achieve a just transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy. Given the enormous and... Read More about A Climate Bank for Viet Nam to Catalyze Green and Just Transitions.

Assembling the Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone: The Networks, Spatial Strategies and Development Impact of China’s Relocating Manufacturing Industries in Egypt (2023)
Thesis
Joudeh, S. Assembling the Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone: The Networks, Spatial Strategies and Development Impact of China’s Relocating Manufacturing Industries in Egypt. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the dynamics and implications of assembling the Chinese-Egyptian Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (SETCzone) within the situated context of Egypt’s militarised development landscape. The analysis situates the spatial inte... Read More about Assembling the Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone: The Networks, Spatial Strategies and Development Impact of China’s Relocating Manufacturing Industries in Egypt.

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. (in press). 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.

Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation, and Democratisation (2021)
Book
Marois, T. (2021). Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation, and Democratisation. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108989381

Public banks are banks located within the public sphere of a state. They are pervasive, with more than 900 institutions worldwide, and powerful, with tens of trillions in assets. Public banks are neither essentially good nor bad. Rather, they are dyn... Read More about Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation, and Democratisation.

A Dynamic Theory of Public Banks (and why it matters) (2021)
Journal Article
Marois, T. (2022). A Dynamic Theory of Public Banks (and why it matters). Review of Political Economy, 34(2), 356-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2021.1898110

Public banks are pervasive, with more than 900 worldwide, and powerful, having assets nearing $49 trillion. Yet they are too often perceived as static financial institutions, based on economic theories that begin from fixed notions of what it is to b... Read More about A Dynamic Theory of Public Banks (and why it matters).

Introduction: Public Banks Matter At A Time Of Covid-19 (2020)
Book Chapter
Barrowclough, D., Marois, T., & McDonald, D. A. (2020). Introduction: Public Banks Matter At A Time Of Covid-19. In D. A. McDonald, T. Marois, & D. Barrowclough (Eds.), Public Banks And Covid-19: Combatting The Pandemic With Public Finance (1-25). Municipal Services Project/Eurodad/UNCTAD

Public Banks + Public Water = SDG 6? (2020)
Journal Article
McDonald, D. A., Marois, T., & Spronk, S. (2021). Public Banks + Public Water = SDG 6?. Water alternatives, 14(1), 117-134

Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to achieve universal access to water and sanitation services by 2030; this is expected to cost an estimated US$150 billion per year. Where will this funding come from? One possibility is private finance in the form... Read More about Public Banks + Public Water = SDG 6?.