Institutional Options For The Provision Of Infrastructure

Author : Christine Kessides
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821326279

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Institutional Options for the Provision of Infrastructure by Christine Kessides Pdf

This paper explains why tough public sector reform and a sound macroeconomy are essential to sustained growth. It provides a strategy to help countries evaluate how well their governments' policies work. Decisionmakers will learn ways to build an evaluations program that can make governments more accountable and improve their performance. Some options could include making central banks independent, eliminating earmarked funds, and balancing the national budget. The author suggests which government offices should oversee and develop evaluation policies to get the best results, and explains why evaluation results must be linked with all budget decisions. He describes the political and economic environment that allows the evaluation process to develop freely. Also discussed is the role that the World Bank and other insti- tutions should play in supporting evaluation programs. The study examines how sound evaluation can lead to more consistent international policies and better international governance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195209923

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World Development Report 1994 by Anonim Pdf

World Development Report 1994 examines the link between infrastructure and development and explores ways in which developing countries can improve both the provision and the quality of infrastructure services. In recent decades, developing countries have made substantial investments in infrastructure, achieving dramatic gains for households and producers by expanding their access to services such as safe water, sanitation, electric power, telecommunications, and transport. Even more infrastructure investment and expansion are needed in order to extend the reach of services - especially to people living in rural areas and to the poor. But as this report shows, the quantity of investment cannot be the exclusive focus of policy. Improving the quality of infrastructure service also is vital. Both quantity and quality improvements are essential to modernize and diversify production, help countries compete internationally, and accommodate rapid urbanization. The report identifies the basic cause of poor past performance as inadequate institutional incentives for improving the provision of infrastructure. To promote more efficient and responsive service delivery, incentives need to be changed through commercial management, competition, and user involvement. Several trends are helping to improve the performance of infrastructure. First, innovation in technology and in the regulatory management of markets makes more diversity possible in the supply of services. Second, an evaluation of the role of government is leading to a shift from direct government provision of services to increasing private sector provision and recent experience in many countries with public-private partnerships is highlighting new ways to increase efficiency and expand services. Third, increased concern about social and environmental sustainability has heightened public interest in infrastructure design and performance.

Author : Alfredo Stein,International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poverty
ISBN : 1843690969

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Rethinking Aid to Urban Poverty Reduction by Alfredo Stein,International Institute for Environment & Development Pdf

Author : Thomas Bolognesi,Francisco Silva Pinto,Megan Farrelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000644593

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Routledge Handbook of Urban Water Governance by Thomas Bolognesi,Francisco Silva Pinto,Megan Farrelly Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of urban water governance. Of the many growing challenges presented by rapid urbanization, water governance is a critical one and while urban water governance is now regarded as a critical field of research, the literature is fragmented. For the first time, this handbook brings together urban water governance research, containing interdisciplinary contributions from established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. It addresses the key questions of how urban water governance works, how is it shaped, and what the impacts are. The handbook's structure offers a progressive entry into the complexity of urban water governance. Starting with technical dimensions, the handbook addresses supply and demand, wastewater, and sanitation. It then considers regulation and economic factors, examining water utilities and services. Political processes, and the actors involved, are addressed and the handbook finishes with a part focusing on governance and sustainability, where chapters address critically important topics such as access to water, water safety, and water security. This handbook is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals interested in urban water governance, urban studies, and water resource management and sustainability more broadly.

Author : Steve Graham,Simon Marvin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134656981

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Splintering Urbanism by Steve Graham,Simon Marvin Pdf

Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about: *globalization and the city *technology and society *urban space and urban networks *infrastructure and the built environment *developed, developing and post-communist worlds. With a range of case studies, illustrations and boxed examples, from New York to Jakarta, Johannesberg to Manila and Sao Paolo to Melbourne, Splintering Urbanism demonstrates the latest social, urban and technological theories, which give us an understanding of our contemporary metropolis.

Author : Robert Picciotto
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821334581

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Putting Institutional Economics to Work by Robert Picciotto Pdf

World Bank Technical Paper No. 266. Critiques both beneficial and detrimental government regulations that affect commodity markets in developing countries. Commodity markets require a regulatory environment that encourages private enterprise. Government regulations are needed to foster conditions in which market participants have the incentive and the opportunity to operate successfully. This paper poses the difficult question of which regulations are essential for the development of commodity markets and which become impediments. Government regulations are classified according to whether they are - Essential for the development of competitive markets - Facilitators of developing private market rules - Impediments to market development. The authors use the agricultural market as an example for outlining regulatory strategies and summarize the minimum requirements for market development.

Author : Rodney Howes,Herbert Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136395413

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Infrastructure for the Built Environment: Global Procurement Strategies by Rodney Howes,Herbert Robinson Pdf

Throughout the world there is a growing demand for high quality public services to support socio-economic development. Infrastructure is central to improving the level of public services and the quality of the built environment. But in key areas such as transport, energy, water, healthcare, education and communications, public resources are not sufficient to keep pace with this demand. As the public sector struggles to keep up, the private sector is increasingly involved in the procurement of economic and social infrastructure. Until now procurement strategies have often concentrated on the mechanisms and the ‘bricks and mortar’ without a thorough analysis of the processes and their implications for services. The result is that all too often infrastructure projects are implemented in an ad hoc and fragmented way. In this ground-breaking book, Rodney Howes and Herbert Robinson provide a holistic approach to infrastructure provision that facilitates infrastructure delivery aimed at continuously improving the level and quality of services. Critical issues of policy and strategy, implementation, and operational aspects are examined within the context of sustainability. By emphasising the importance of procuring infrastructure within an overall national or regional development policy and strategy, the authors have demonstrated the importance of linking investment and resource decisions to local social, economic and environmental needs. With each chapter carefully written to reflect part of the infrastructure delivery chain and illustrated with practical examples and case studies from around the world, this book offers a new blueprint for infrastructure investment and resource management.

Author : Sunder Ramaswamy
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1584652756

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Development and Democracy by Sunder Ramaswamy Pdf

An interdisciplinary and cross-cultural conversation about development and democracy worldwide.

Author : William R. Dillinger
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0821332325

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Better Urban Services by William R. Dillinger Pdf

The World Bank plays an active role through lending operations and analytical work in support of countries' efforts to address population issues. This study examines those issues in Asia, home to half the world's population, to provide a comparative analysis from a policy perspective. The book is divided into three parts. The first provides the historical context for demographic policies, including a graphic framework based on data from past population growth patterns and fertility rates. The second examines the cost, financing, and organization of family planning programs. The final part assesses population prospects, including the sensitivity of future population sizes to sharp declines in fertility rates, and the implications of growth for the environment, the delivery of social services, employment, and the demand for urban infrastructure.

Author : Stefan Bouzarovski,Martin J Pasqualetti,Vanesa Castán Broto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317043577

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The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies by Stefan Bouzarovski,Martin J Pasqualetti,Vanesa Castán Broto Pdf

Energy has become a central concern of many strands of geographical inquiry, from global climate change to the effects of energy decisions on our lives. However, many aspects of the ‘black box’ of relationships at the energy-society interface remain unopened, especially in terms of the spatial underpinnings of energy production and consumption within nations, cities and regions. Debates focusing on the location and nature of energy flows frequently fail to consider the multiple geographical networks that illustrate and explain the distribution of fuels and services around the world. Providing an integrated perspective on the complex interdependencies between energy and geography, The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies offers a timely conceptual framework to study the multiple facets of energy geography, including security, space and place, planning, environmental science, economics and political science. Illustrating how a geographic approach towards energy can aid decision-making pathways in the domains of social justice and environment, this book provides insights that will help move the international community toward greater cooperation, stability, and sustainability.

Author : Roy Gilbert
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821355404

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Improving the Lives of the Poor by Investing in Cities by Roy Gilbert Pdf

Cities are home to 525 million poor people throughout the world. This study assesses the performance of 99 World Bank urban development operations completed since 1993, focusing on how these interventions have improved the living conditions of the urban poor. Findings include that the projects improved livability conditions significantly, including access to better basic water, sewerage and solid waste disposal. However, there is a need for more systematic monitoring and evaluation of the poverty alleviation results of such urban development assistance.

Author : K. Subbarao
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 082132859X

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Women in Higher Education by K. Subbarao Pdf

World Bank Discussion Paper 244. Although many studies have analyzed the gender gap in primary and secondary education in developing countries, this study is one of the few that analyzes the gap at the tertiary, or university level. The authors tra

Author : Bonni J. Van Blarcom,Odin Knudsen,John Nash
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821326678

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The Reform of Public Expenditures for Agriculture by Bonni J. Van Blarcom,Odin Knudsen,John Nash Pdf

Author : World Bank Group. Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure Network
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UCSD:31822025651621

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The Private Sector in Infrastructure by World Bank Group. Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure Network Pdf

"Private particpation in infrastructure has moved to the top of the political, economic, and social agendas of a growing number of countries. The focus of the debate is beginning to shift from the why to the how, fueling the demand for lessons on best practice in reform strategies, regulatory frameworks, institutional arrangements, and risk mitigation. This collection of policy briefs on private participation in infrastructure responds to this demand. Drawing on a wide range of experience in different countries and sectors, these briefs seek to broaden understanding on risk allocation, institutional arrangements, choice of regulatory rules, and the scope for competition in infrastructure provision" -- Preface.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821329642

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Supply and Demand for Finance of Small Enterprises in Ghana by Anonim Pdf

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 251. This study investigates the conflicting viewpoints of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and banks: the SMEs contend that the supply of bank financing is largely unavailable to them, while banks maintain