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Technical Efficiency Gains from Port Reform

Author : Antonio Estache
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technical Efficiency Gains from Port Reform written by Antonio Estache and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors show how relatively standard methodologies can help to measure the efficiency gains from reforming the organization of port infrastructure, how those measures can be used to promote competition between ports, and how competition can be built into an incentive-driven regulatory regime. As illustration, they use a case study of port reform in mexico in 1993, the first efficiency analysis of port restructuring in a developing country. Their analysis, which covers 1996-99 and relies on a stochastic production frontier, shows that overall, Mexico has achieved annual efficiency gains of 6-8 percent in the use of port infrastructure since assigning its management to independent, decentralized operators. Changes in relative performance ratings are revealing. They identify consistent sets of leaders and laggards, including some that would not have been identified by partial productivity indicators commonly used in the sector. The authors' main conclusions: 1) Reforms have significantly improved average port performance. 2) The analytically sound performance rankings allowed by the port-specific efficiency measures can help to promote yardstick competition in the sector. These rankings are superior to those that would emerge from use of partial productivity indicators. They account for the joint effects of all inputs on outputs--which is crucial, because it avoids the risk of inconsistent rankings based on different partial indicators, arbitrarily chosen. Developing the database method to measure efficiency in countries with no strong tradition of database development is an enormous task--especially in transport sectors, where the tradition of generating databases useful to policymakers is in its infancy. The most immediate effect of this exercise was to reveal the poverty of the database in the Mexican port sector and the need for regulators to invest in its development.

Technical Efficiency Gains from Port Reform

Author : Antonio Estache
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Technical Efficiency Gains from Port Reform written by Antonio Estache and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relatively standard methodologies can help to measure the efficiency gains from reforming the organization of port infrastructure, and these measures can be used to promote competition between ports. But building the database needed to measure efficiency is a major undertaking for developing countries unaccustomed to such tasks.Estache, Gonzalez, and Trujillo show how relatively standard methodologies can help to measure the efficiency gains from reforming the organization of port infrastructure, how those measures can be used to promote competition between ports, and how competition can be built into an incentive-driven regulatory regime.As illustration, they use a case study of port reform in Mexico in 1993, the first efficiency analysis of port restructuring in a developing country. Their analysis, which covers 1996-99 and relies on a stochastic production frontier, shows that overall, Mexico has achieved annual efficiency gains of 6-8 percent in the use of port infrastructure since assigning its management to independent. decentralized operators. Changes in relative performance ratings are revealing. They identify consistent sets of leaders and laggards, including some that would not have been identified by partial productivity indicators commonly used in the sector. The authors' main conclusions:ŉ Reforms have significantly improved average port performance.ŉ The analytically sound performance rankings allowed by the port-specific efficiency measures can help to promote yardstick competition in the sector. These rankings are superior to those that would emerge from use of partial productivity indicators. They account for the joint effects of all inputs on outputs - which is crucial, because it avoids the risk of inconsistent rankings based on different partial indicators, arbitrarily chosen.Developing the database needed to measure efficiency in countries with no strong tradition of database development is an enormous task - especially in transport sectors, where the tradition of generating databases useful to policymakers is in its infancy. The most immediate effect of this exercise was to reveal the poverty of the database in the Mexican port sector and the need for regulators to invest in its development.This paper - a product of Governance, Regulation, and Finance Division, World Bank Institute - is part of a larger effort in the institute to increase the understanding of infrastructure regulation.

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.

Reforms and Infastructure Efficiency in Spain's Container Ports

Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
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Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy

Author : Paul Yae-Woo Lee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113751423X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy by : Paul Yae-Woo Lee

Download or read book Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy written by Paul Yae-Woo Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two volume book presents an in-depth analysis of many of the most important issues facing today's shipping and port sectors. Volume 1 of Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy focuses on the application of theory to practice in Maritime Logistics.

Port Management

Author : H. Haralambides
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137475773
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Port Management written by H. Haralambides and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Port Management brings together a collection of seminal papers from Palgrave’s journal Maritime Economics and Logistics. It is a dynamic volume, containing contributions from leading authors with different disciplinary backgrounds, representing a vast regional diversity. The volume provides authoritative and timely investigations into key topics in port economics, including research on: global supply chains, port networks, choice modelling, port infrastructure, competition, port pricing, efficiency in European seaports, and an analysis of Chinese container ports. It is essential reading for professionals, scholars, and researchers interested in port economics.

Infrastructure Performance and Reform in Developing and Transition Economies

Author : Lourdes Trujillo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Infrastructure Performance and Reform in Developing and Transition Economies written by Lourdes Trujillo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Estache, Perelman, and Trujillo review about 80 studies on electricity and gas, water and sanitation, and rail and ports (with a footnote on telecommunications) in developing countries. The main policy lesson is that there is a difference in the relevance of ownership for efficiency between utilities and transport in developing countries. In transport, private operators have tended to perform better than public operators. For utilities, ownership often does not matter as much as sometimes argued. Most cross-country studies find no statistically significant difference in efficiency scores between public and private providers. As for the country-specific studies, some do find differences in performance over time but these differences tend to matter much less than a large number of other variables. Across sectors, private operators functioning in a competitive environment or regulated under price caps or hybrid regulatory regimes tend to catch up best practice faster than public operators. There is a very strong case to push regulators in developing and transition economies toward a more systematic reliance on yardstick competition in a sector in which residual monopoly powers tend to be common. This paper--a product of the Office of the Vice President, Infrastructure Network--is part of a larger effort in the network to document the state of the sector"--World Bank web site.

Labor Issues in Infrastructure Reform

Author : Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821354704
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Labor Issues in Infrastructure Reform written by Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fears of job loss and changes in employment status have often led workers and unions to oppose privatization and to take actions that delay or block reforms. Many developing country governments have been reluctant to undertake reforms because of labor opposition and the political costs involved. Such difficulties are often compounded by concerns about the social impact of reforms, particularly in countries where social safety nets and labor markets are lacking. The objective of the Toolkit, which includes a CD-ROM, is to provide practical tools and information to help policy makers and practitioners deal with these sensitive issues. The Toolkit helps governments identify and select appropriate strategies and approaches, offers guidelines for design and implementation based on best practice and actual experience, and indicates the factors influencing the choice of strategy and options. The Toolkit is illustrated with examples, checklists, and templates that walk decision makers through best practice methodologies.

Thirst for Reform?

Author : Luke Haggarty
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book Thirst for Reform? written by Luke Haggarty and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1990s Mexico City's Federal District (the D.F.) initiated a series of service contracts with four operators in the private sector, each to be implemented in three stages over ten years. The idea was to introduce competitive pressures and to find out if a "gradualist" aaproach would reduce social and political opposition to private sector involvement and would allow the government to address pricing problems and strengthen regulatory arrangements.

The Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business

Author : Costas Grammenos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135134065
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business written by Costas Grammenos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the founding title in the Grammenos Library. The diversity of the subjects covered is unique and the results of research developed over many years are not only comprehensive, but also have important implications on real life issues in maritime business. The new edition covers a vast number of topics, including: • Shipping Economics and Maritime Nexus • International Seaborne Trade • Economics of Shipping Market and Shipping Cycles • Economics of Shipping Sectors • Issues in Liner Shipping • Economics of Maritime Safety and Seafaring Labour Market • National and International Shipping Policies • Aspects of Shipping Management and Operations• Shipping Investment and Finance • Port Economics and Management • Aspects of International Logistics

A Primer on Efficiency Measurement for Utilities and Transport Regulators

Author : Tim Coelli
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821353799
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis A Primer on Efficiency Measurement for Utilities and Transport Regulators by : Tim Coelli

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International Handbook of Maritime Economics

Author : Kevin Cullinane
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857930869
Total Pages : 521 pages
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Issues in Urban Policy and Planning: 2013 Edition

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Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
ISBN 13 : 1490110917
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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The Blackwell Companion to Maritime Economics

Author : Wayne K. Talley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444345648
Total Pages : 766 pages
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Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities

Author : Tim Coelli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781956519
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Data Envelopment Analysis and Effective Performance Assessment

Author : Lotfi, Farhad Hossein Zadeh
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522505970
Total Pages : 375 pages
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German-Turkish Perspectives on IT and Innovation Management

Author : Fehim Bakırcı
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658169621
Total Pages : 513 pages
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