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Book Synopsis Argentina's Transport Privatization and Re-regulation by : Antonio Estache
Download or read book Argentina's Transport Privatization and Re-regulation written by Antonio Estache and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Argentina's policy for reform of the transport sector has been a mix of competition in the market and, through concessions, for the market. Capacity has increased, demand has grown, and prices and services have improved. Public financing has not been eliminated but it has been drastically reduced"--Cover.
Book Synopsis Argentina's Transport Privatization and Re-Regulation by : Antonio Estache
Download or read book Argentina's Transport Privatization and Re-Regulation written by Antonio Estache and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argentina's policy for reform of the transport sector has been a mix of competition in the market and, through concessions, for the market. Capacity has increased, demand has grown, and prices and services have improved. Public financing has not been eliminated but it has been drastically reduced.When Argentina initiated reform of its transport sector in 1989, it had few models to follow. It was the first Latin American country to privatize its intercity railroad, to explicitly organize intraport competition, and to grant a private concession to operate its subway. It was second (after Japan) to privatize its urban commuter railways and one of the first in the developing world to grant road concessions to private operators.Argentina's experience shows that transport privatization and deregulation provide efficiency gains that can be delivered to users. Despite unexpectedly high residual subsidy requirements, fiscal costs are lower, services have improved, and new investment is taking place. Argentina's decade-long experience shows that the reform process involves learning by doing. Inexperienced new regulators quickly face the challenges in controlling monopoly power and providing long-run incentives for private investment. Designing sustainable reform requires a commitment by government to minimize its role in the sector and to respect its original promises to both users and concessionaires. Argentina has learned the importance of building up the regulatory capacity needed to monitor contracts, especially when initial uncertainty about demand and cost conditions is strong and renegotiation is the probable outcome of daring reform.The government's main challenge in monitoring contracts is to get enough information to reach a balance in its decisions about distributing efficiency gains fairly between consumers and private investors. This is one area in which Argentina may not yet have met the challenge. As the last wave of contract extensions in rail and roads comes to an end, one issue is likely to be the need for better targeting of subsidies for the poor.This paper - a product of Governance, Regulation, and Finance, World Bank Institute - is part of a larger effort in the institute to increase understanding of infrastructure regulation.
Book Synopsis Privatization and Regulation of Transport Infrastructure by : Antonio Estache
Download or read book Privatization and Regulation of Transport Infrastructure written by Antonio Estache and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1990s saw an increase in the liberalisation of transport policies and a strengthening of the role of private operators and investors in transport infrastructure worldwide. The search for sustained improvement in efficiency is probably secondary to the need to find additional financing, but it is improvement in services that is at the core of the new role of the government in transport. Governments must now become fair economic regulators of many of the privately operated transport services and infrastructures. This book examines the major challenges that governments are likely to face in taking on their new role in transport.
Book Synopsis Logistic Services: An Overview of the Global Market and Potential Effects of Removing Trade Impediments, Inv. 332-463 by :
Download or read book Logistic Services: An Overview of the Global Market and Potential Effects of Removing Trade Impediments, Inv. 332-463 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Regulating Infrastructure by : José A. Gómez-Ibáñez
Download or read book Regulating Infrastructure written by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study of urban infrastructure “offers a series of fascinating arguments” in favor of market-oriented approaches to regulation (Times Higher Education Supplement). In the 1980s and ‘90s, many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities—such as gas, telephones, and highways—with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But high-profile failures have since raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these: how can government fairly and effectively regulate “natural monopolies”—those infrastructure and utility services whose technologies make competition impractical? Mapping out various approaches to regulation, José Gómez-Ibáñez draws on a wealth of case studies, as well as history, politics, and economics. He makes a strong case for favoring market-oriented and contractual approaches over those that grant more discretion to government regulators. He shows how contracts can provide stronger protection for infrastructure customers and suppliers—and greater opportunities to tailor services to their mutual advantage. At the same time, he highlights scenarios where alternative schemes may be needed.
Book Synopsis Reforming Infrastructure by : Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Download or read book Reforming Infrastructure written by Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain by : Miguel A. Centeno
Download or read book State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain written by Miguel A. Centeno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities. However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This accessible volume compiles original essays on the neoliberal era in Latin America and Spain, exploring subjects such as neoliberal public policies, power strategies, institutional resources, popular support, and social protest. The book focuses on neoliberalism as a state model: a configuration of public power designed to implement radical policy proposals. This is the third volume in the State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain series, which aims to complete and advance research and knowledge about national states in Latin America and Spain.
Book Synopsis State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 3 by : Miguel A. Centeno
Download or read book State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 3 written by Miguel A. Centeno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities. However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This accessible volume compiles original essays on the neoliberal era in Latin America and Spain, exploring subjects such as neoliberal public policies, power strategies, institutional resources, popular support, and social protest. The book focuses on neoliberalism as a state model: a configuration of public power designed to implement radical policy proposals. This is the third volume in the State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain series, which aims to complete and advance research and knowledge about national states in Latin America and Spain.
Book Synopsis Privatization and Regulation of Transport Infrastructure in the 1990s by : Antonio Estache
Download or read book Privatization and Regulation of Transport Infrastructure in the 1990s written by Antonio Estache and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learning to regulate fairly, effectively, and at arm's length may be the main challenge governments face in attracting private investment and financing to the transport sector"--Cover.
Book Synopsis Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage and Transport Costs by : Nuno Limão
Download or read book Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage and Transport Costs written by Nuno Limão and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The median landlocked country has only 30 percent of the trade volume of the median coastal economy. Halving transport costs increases that trade volume by a factor of five. Improving the standard of infrastructure from that of the bottom quarter of countries to that of the median country increases trade by 50 percent. Improving infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa is especially important for increasing African trade"--Cover.
Book Synopsis Private Participation in Infrastructure in China by : Michel Bellier
Download or read book Private Participation in Infrastructure in China written by Michel Bellier and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s China has made extensive policy reforms and infrastructure investments. Although there have been significant investments made over the past decades, most of these investments came from the public sector. The goal of this report is to help improve China's approach to private participation in infrastructure focusing on roads, water and sanitation, and power generation by expanding foreign direct investment and domestic financing in such projects. It compares China's experience with those of other countries.
Book Synopsis Physical Infrastructure Development by : W. Ascher
Download or read book Physical Infrastructure Development written by W. Ascher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the key challenges of balancing economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection in the development of major physical infrastructure, ranging from transport to energy.
Book Synopsis Economic Liberalisation and Turkey by : Sübidey Togan
Download or read book Economic Liberalisation and Turkey written by Sübidey Togan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of Turkey, its approach to liberalization and its measures to eliminate barriers to trade serve as a useful model for other neighboring countries of the European Union. This book examines the impact of economic liberalization in Turkey and its approach to the elimination of barriers to trade.
Book Synopsis Do More Unequal Countries Redistribute More? by : Branko Milanovi?
Download or read book Do More Unequal Countries Redistribute More? written by Branko Milanovi? and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The data strongly support the hypothesis that countries with more unequal distribution of factor income redistribute more in favor of the poor-- even when the analysis controls for older people's share in total population (that is, for pension transfers). But the evidence on the median voter hypothesis is inconclusive even if middle-income groups gain more (or lose less) through redistribution in countries where initial (factor) income distribution is more unequal"--Cover.
Book Synopsis Productivity Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Banking Sector by : Ejaz Ghani
Download or read book Productivity Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Banking Sector written by Ejaz Ghani and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did the East Asian miracle turn into one of the worst financial crises of the century? A case study of Malaysia provides some answers"--Cover.
Book Synopsis Will the Euro Create a Bonanza for Africa? by : Daniel Cohen
Download or read book Will the Euro Create a Bonanza for Africa? written by Daniel Cohen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At this stage, it is difficult to conclude that the euro will have substantial macroeconomic impact on sub-Saharan Africa, unless launch of the euro becomes the tool of a major policy shift, such as the "euroization" of the continent-- which is currently unlikely"--Cover.
Book Synopsis Universal Service Obligations in Utility Concession Contracts and the Needs of the Poor in Argentina's Privatizations by : Omar O. Chisari
Download or read book Universal Service Obligations in Utility Concession Contracts and the Needs of the Poor in Argentina's Privatizations written by Omar O. Chisari and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The structural changes that come with privatization may induce a reconsideration of the regulations defined during the early stages of privatization"--Cover.
