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Second-generation Reforms in Infrastructure Services

Author : Federico Basañes
Publisher : IDB
ISBN 13 : 9781931003018
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Second-generation Reforms in Infrastructure Services written by Federico Basañes and published by IDB. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor's description : "During the past two decades, Latin American countries have made pioneering efforts in reforming infrastructure services. The "first generation of reforms" encompassed widespread privatization, deregulation and restructuring of the provision of energy, water, transport and telecommunications services. Second-Generation Reforms in Infrastructure Services evaluates the current challenges, leading to the consolidation of the initial reforms. This volume deals with post-privatization dispute settlement mechanisms, access arrangements in network industries, and inroads to effective competition in the reformed industries. The authors evaluate a set of contractual adjustments resulting from renegotiations and disputes that have taken place since the beginning of the reform process. In an effort to promote competition in the provision of public services, the authors suggest some practical rules for pricing access in network industries. The book presents a dynamic, global vision of second-generation reforms underway in energy markets around the world. - See more at: https://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/310#sthash.M23WTIKV.dpuf"

Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries

Author : Bernardo Mueller
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821366106
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries written by Bernardo Mueller and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper assesses and measures regulatory governance in 21 infrastructure regulators in Brazil. Regulatory Governance is decomposed into four main attributes: autonomy; decision-rules; means and tools; and accountability. A ranking is proposed and the main areas for improvement identified. A comparison of the proposed regulatory governance index and other indexes internationally available is performed. Section 2 sets up the analytical framework for the report, identifying key components of regulatory governance, namely, autonomy (political and financial), procedures for decision-making, tools and means (including personnel), and accountability. Section 3 assesses each of these components in practice, reporting the results of a survey with 21 regulatory agencies in Brazil, which was designed and implemented in 2005. Section 4 measures regulatory governance based on three related indexes, ranks the Brazilian regulators among themselves, and compares the proposed indexes with other two indicators available in the literature. Section 5 presents the conclusions."

International Handbook of Network Industries

Author : Matthias Finger
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857930478
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book International Handbook of Network Industries written by Matthias Finger and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To learn about how economic and institutional forces have shaped the network industries and policies towards them, read the first part of the book. To discover their impacts on particular industries, read the second part. And to find out what has happened in particular countries, read the third part. I think anyone interested in network industries should read all of it! The book's structure allows for many interesting comparisons across countries and sectors.' Richard Green, University of Birmingham, UK 'This is a very useful and comprehensive guide to reforms in network industries in communications, energy, transport and water. It is organized by generic topic, sector and region. Its authors are acknowledged experts. I am confident that this Handbook will be a widely read and valuable resource for many years.' Martin Cave, London School of Economics, UK 'Quite an accomplishment, this Handbook provides by far the most comprehensive overview of the role of the private sector and competition in infrastructure industries, with thoughtful surveys of each of the major infrastructure sectors and of the key regions and countries.' José Gómez-Ibáñez, Harvard University, US In recent decades, all infrastructures have undergone significant restructuring. This worldwide phenomenon is often labelled 'liberalization' and although expectations were high with respect to lower prices, greater efficiency and innovation, the expected gains have not always been fully realized. This extensive, state-of-the-art Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various experiences of liberalization across different sectors, regions and disciplines. The multidisciplinary approach focuses on the economic, political and institutional aspects of liberalization as well as, to a lesser extent, on technological issues. As such, it constitutes a unique contribution, as this broad overview is often lost in the sector specific, country-focused and purely disciplinary approaches prevalent in the current literature. Sectors explored include telecoms, the Internet, energy and transport, whilst the truly global perspective incorporates unique case studies from an array of developed and developing countries including the US, China, India and the EU. The International Handbook of Network Industries will become the definitive volume for academics researchers and students of economics, political science and law interested in infrastructure regulation. It will also prove a valuable guide to practitioners and policy-makers involved in liberalization and competition.

Reforming Infrastructure

Author : Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Reforming Infrastructure written by Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 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.

OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Mexico 2004 Progress in Implementing Regulatory Reform

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264017526
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Mexico 2004 Progress in Implementing Regulatory Reform written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive review of Mexican regulatory policy outlines progress made by Mexico since the 1999 review conducted by the OECD, and makes recommendations for further reforms aimed at promoting investment and boosting productivity and ...

Multinational Enterprises in Latin America since the 1990s

Author : P. Toral
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230119328
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Multinational Enterprises in Latin America since the 1990s written by P. Toral and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an original analysis of the role of foreign firms in the structural reforms implemented by the Latin American governments since the 1980s with a focus on the making of the Spanish multinational enterprise.

An Enduring Partnership for Development

Author : William R. Large
Publisher : IDB
ISBN 13 : 1931003920
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book An Enduring Partnership for Development written by William R. Large and published by IDB. This book was released on 2004 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Measurement of Market-oriented Reforms

Author : Raimundo Soto
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Measurement of Market-oriented Reforms written by Raimundo Soto and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Loayza and Soto present policy and outcome-based ways of measuring the progress of market-oriented reforms in both traditional areas of first-generation reform and the areas of institutional reform that have been emphasized lately. These policy areas are the domestic financial system, international financial markets, international trade, the labor market, the tax system, public infrastructure and public firms, the legal and regulatory framework, and governance. For each of them, the authors first discuss the general principles underlying market-oriented reform. Second, they present various indicators of the policy stance in the area in question. And third, they present various outcome indicators of the policy stance. This paper is a product of Investment Climate Team, Development Research Group is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the process of economic reform"--World Bank web site.

Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities

Author : Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521884314
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities written by Maria Victoria Murillo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that electoral competition and partisan government helped balance the conflicting demands of voters' interests with the financial pressures generated by capital scarcity.

The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation

Author : Matthias Krause
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135846111
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation written by Matthias Krause and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in human development are closely linked to increasing access to water and sanitation (WS) services in developing countries. Utilizing data from 69 nations, Krause argues that the level of democratic governance has a statistically significant positive impact on access to WS services, from influencing policy-making to managing providers.

Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina

Author : Alison E. Post
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139868071
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina written by Alison E. Post and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political economy scholarship suggests that private sector investment, and thus economic growth, is more likely to occur when formal institutions allow states to provide investors with credible commitments to protect property rights. This book argues that this maxim does not hold for infrastructure privatization programs. Rather, differences in firm organizational structure better explain the viability of privatization contracts in weak institutional environments. Domestic investors - or, if contracts are granted subnationally, domestic investors with diverse holdings in their contract jurisdiction - work most effectively in the volatile economic and political environments of the developing world. They are able to negotiate mutually beneficial adaptations to their contracts with host governments because cross-sector diversification provides them with informal contractual supports. The book finds strong empirical support for this argument through an analysis of fourteen water and sanitation privatization contracts in Argentina and a statistical analysis of sector trends in developing countries.

Structure and Structural Change in the Chilean Economy

Author : P. Aroca
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023023965X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Structure and Structural Change in the Chilean Economy written by P. Aroca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the macroeconomic changes in Chilean economics, complementing this with detailed sectoral evaluation and an analysis of the impacts at regional level. Evidence suggests a need to explore the degree to which economic development has or has not contributed to reducing disparities in level of welfare across the country.

Regulation and Development

Author : Jean-Jacques Laffont
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521549486
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Regulation and Development written by Jean-Jacques Laffont and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for developing countries. He shows how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of less developed countries (LDCs) and offers a positive theory of privatization that stresses the role of corruption. He develops a new theory of regulation with limited enforcement capabilities and discusses the delicate issue of access pricing in view of LDC's specificities. In the final chapter he proposes a theory of separation of powers which reveals one of the many vicious circles of underdevelopment made explicit by the economics of information. Based on organization theory and history, and using simple empirical tests wherever possible, Professor Laffont offers a comprehensive evaluation of the different ways to organize the regulatory institutions and opens up a rich new research agenda for development studies.

Commerce Solved Papers

Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commerce Solved Papers written by YCT Expert Team and published by YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES. This book was released on with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023-24 NTA UGC-NET/JRF Commerce Solved Papers

2024-25 NTA UGC-NET/JRF Commerce Solved Papers

Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
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Download or read book 2024-25 NTA UGC-NET/JRF Commerce Solved Papers written by YCT Expert Team and published by YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES. This book was released on with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2024-25 NTA UGC-NET/JRF Commerce Solved Papers

Reforming Infrastructure

Author : Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821350706
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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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.

Economic Policy Reform

Author : Anne O. Krueger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226454481
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Economic Policy Reform written by Anne O. Krueger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anne O. Krueger has assembled and deftly summarized an excellent set of papers on the major issues in economic reform in developing countries at the turn of the century."--Stanley Fischer, International Monetary Fund The papers and commentary collected in this volume discuss vital contemporary thinking on economic policy reform--in particular, the difficulties that leave so much of the world mired in poverty. Distinguished contributors address issues ranging from education and privatization to exchange rates and telecommunications reform, providing an excellent overview of the current situation and the possible paths into the future.