How Widespread Were Private Investment And Regulatory Reform In Infrastructure Utilities During The 1990s

Author : Antonio Estache,Ana Goicoechea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Public utilities
ISBN : UCSD:31822030184048

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How Widespread Were Private Investment and Regulatory Reform in Infrastructure Utilities During the 1990s? by Antonio Estache,Ana Goicoechea Pdf

This note provides a snapshot as of 2004 of the share of countries with an independent regulatory agency and with at least some private sector financing of its sectoral investment needs for electricity, water and sanitation, and telecommunications. Among other things, they show that: For respectively, electricity, water and sanitation, and telecommunications, 51 percent, 21 percent, and 66 percent of the developing countries in the sample have an independent regulator, that is, an agency separate from a ministry and from the operator. For respectively, electricity generation, electricity distribution, water and sanitation, and telecommunications, 47 percent, 36 percent, 35 percent, and 59 percent of the developing countries in the sample have at least some private sector financing. The shares of both agencies and private sector involvement tend to increase with income levels. Latin and Central America and Eastern Europe are outliers among regions as almost systematically they have among the highest shares for both indicators across sectors (except water).

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : OECD
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556022377287

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Infrastructure Policies for the 1990s by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

Author : Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556035569946

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Reforming Infrastructure by Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides Pdf

Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.

Author : Tim Coelli,Denis Anthony Lawrence
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781956510

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Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities by Tim Coelli,Denis Anthony Lawrence Pdf

This book explores the important role that economic performance measurement is playing in the regulation of network utilities in many countries today. The contributors to the book - researchers from academia, regulatory agencies and consulting firms - address the use of efficiency measures in price regulation and in assessing the effects of past regulatory reforms. Industries examined include electricity supply, water supply, telecommunications and airlines, across a range of countries including the USA, UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.

Author : Antonio Estache,Ana Goicoechea,Lourdes Trujillo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cell phones
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Utilities Reforms and Corruption in Developing Countries by Antonio Estache,Ana Goicoechea,Lourdes Trujillo Pdf

This paper shows empirically that "privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the introduction of independent regulators in those sectors, have not always had the expected effects on access, affordability, or quality of services. It also shows that corruption leads to adjustments in the quantity, quality, and price of services consistent with the profit-maximizing behavior that one would expect from monopolies in the sector. The results suggest that privatization and the introduction of independent regulators have, at best, only partial effects on the consequences of corruption for access, affordability, and quality of utility services.

Author : M. Ramesh,Eduardo Araral,Xun Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135168223

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Reasserting the Public in Public Services by M. Ramesh,Eduardo Araral,Xun Wu Pdf

After two decades of dominating the public sector reform agenda, privatization is on the wane as states gradually reassert themselves in many formerly privatized sectors. The change of direction is a response to the realization that privatization is not working as intended, especially in public service sectors. This landmark volume brings together leading social scientists, including B. Guy Peters, Anthony Cheung and Jon Pierre, to systematically discuss the emerging patterns of the reassertion of the state in the delivery of essential public services. The state under these emerging arrangements assumes overall responsibility for and control over essential public service delivery, yet allows scope for market incentives and competition when they are known to work. The recent reforms thus display a more pragmatic and nuanced understanding of how markets work in public services . The first part of the book provides the theoretical context while the second provides sectoral studies of recent reforms in healthcare, education, transportation, electricity and water supply. It includes case studies from a range of countries: Brazil, China, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, USA, Hong Kong and the UK. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Political Science, Public Administration, Public Policy, Geography, Political Economy, Sociology, and Urban Planning.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264083417

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OECD Economic Surveys: Indonesia 2010 by OECD Pdf

This 2010 edition of OECD's periodic survey of the Indonesian economy includes chapters covering achieving sustainable and inclusive growth, phasing out energy subsidies, tackling the infrastructure challenge, and enhancing the effectiveness of social policies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Telecommunications performance, reforms, and governance by Anonim Pdf

Author : G Ramesh,Vishnu Prasad Nagadevara,Gopal Naik,Anil Suraj
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000083811

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Urban Infrastructure and Governance by G Ramesh,Vishnu Prasad Nagadevara,Gopal Naik,Anil Suraj Pdf

The book contains a selection of papers on urban governance in its multiple perspectives. It has evolved from the presentations made at the Third International Conference on Public Policy and Management held in 2008.The topics are grouped into several themes: Urban Plan and Governance, Urban Governance through Partnership and Participation, and Financing Urban Infrastructure. With several examples from developing nations, the book dwells into the practical and managerial aspects of urban planning, partnerships, participation, financial mobilization and effective governance. One of the highlights of the book is that it looks at financial mobilization as a strategy for governance and how the financial system in itself can be an instrument of governance.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264023994

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Infrastructure to 2030 Telecom, Land Transport, Water and Electricity by OECD Pdf

This long-term examination of future infrastructure needs examines what will be required, how it will be financed, and how such factors as climate change, globalisation, and urbanisation will affect these needs.

Author : Martin A. Rossi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electric utilities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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regulatory agencies impact on firm performance and social welfare by Martin A. Rossi Pdf

Abstract: The authors explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector. The authors exploit a unique dataset comprising firm-level information on a representative sample of 220 electric utilities from 51 development and transition countries for the years 1985 to 2005. Their results indicate that regulatory agencies are associated with more efficient firms and with higher social welfare.

Author : Kankesu Jayanthakumaran,Nagesh Shukla,Charles Harvie,Odbayar Erdenetsogt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811368141

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Trade Logistics in Landlocked and Resource Cursed Asian Countries by Kankesu Jayanthakumaran,Nagesh Shukla,Charles Harvie,Odbayar Erdenetsogt Pdf

This book focuses on strategies to achieve economic diversification in Asian landlocked countries. It does so by analysing the impact of the Dutch disease, non-resource firm heterogeneity, trade logistics operations, trade facilitation, aid for trade, small and medium-sized enterprises, and foreign direct investment. Offering a wide range of expert views and opinions, research findings, information and data, the book will be of value to policy makers and students of trade and development economics.

Author : Diery Seck
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030464820

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Financing Africa’s Development by Diery Seck Pdf

This book examines the impact of financing on Africa’s economic development. By exploring various financial instruments including the role of alternative sources of funding like migrant remittances and illicit flows, it analyses the role of financing for Africa’s macroeconomic development and other development indicators such as infrastructure, transport, global trade, industrialisation, social services, external indebtedness and governance. By presenting and examining case studies on various African countries and regions, the respective contributions investigate the capacity of institutions to facilitate and structure the economy’s funding activities, and to strengthen the ties between finance and development. Furthermore, they discuss various regional aspects, such as the integration of infrastructure, harmonization of fiscal policy, integration of financial markets, and the facilitation of intra-regional trade and movement of capital. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scholars of economics and development studies with an interest in the economic development of Africa.

Author : Tabor Evans
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780515142549

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Longarm and the Tascosa Two-Step by Tabor Evans Pdf

When the judge in charge of the murderous Tull family's trial begins receiving death threats, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long must dodge bullets at every turn to get the judge to the courthouse--alive. Original.

Author : Hugh Dyer,Maria Julia Trombetta
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781007907

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International Handbook of Energy Security by Hugh Dyer,Maria Julia Trombetta Pdf

ÔThis Handbook should be consulted by anybody interested in the issue of energy security. It convincingly demonstrates why the provision of energy is such a contentious issue, addressing the complex interaction of economic, social, environmental, technical and political aspects involved. The book is particularly valuable in investigating and highlighting processes in which (inter)national actors apply this variety of aspects in (re)constructing their notion of Òenergy securityÓ, its particular meaning and the implications thereof. Such understanding of energy security is helpful!Õ Ð Aad F. CorreljŽ, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ÔEnergy security has for long been treated as an issue of pure geopolitics. Hugh Dyer and Maria Julia Trombetta aim at broadening energy security debates and extend them to new agendas. Their excellent Handbook offers a fresh perspective on four crucial dimensions: supply, demand, environment and human security. A diverse group of international energy scholars provides for an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of key contemporary energy problems, ranging from an oil producersÕ perspectives on energy security to ethical dimensions of renewable energy and climate governance.Õ Ð Andreas Goldthau, Central European University, Hungary This Handbook brings together energy security experts to explore the implications of framing the energy debate in security terms, both in respect of the governance of energy systems and the practices associated with energy security. The contributors expertly review and analyse the key aspects and research issues in the emerging field of energy security, test the current state of knowledge, and provide suggestions for reflection and further analysis. This involves providing an account of the multiplicity of discourses and meanings of energy security, and contextualizing them. They also suggest a rewriting of energy security discourses and their representation in purely economic terms. This volume examines energy security and its conceptual and practical challenges from the perspectives of security of supply, security of demand, environmental change and human security. It will prove essential for students in the fields of global, international and national politics of energy, economics, and society as well as engineering. It will also appeal to policy practitioners and anybody interested in keeping the lights on, avoiding climate change, and providing a secure future for humanity.