The prospects of cost savings, increased
market share, and other competitive advantages are prompting
more, and more utilities to cross traditional industry
lines, and...
Which is best for effective competition
in power sectors, a separate system operator, a joint-owner
operator, or some combination of the two? The question is
being hotly...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22404Date: January 31, 2001Author:
H. Dunn Jr.,William ;
Arizu,Beatriz ;
Tenenbaum,Bernard W.
During the 1990s developing countries
increasingly turned to the private sector for construction,
management, and maintenance of toll roads. Between 1990 and
1999, US$61...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22402Date: December 31, 2000Author:
Da Silva,Gisele F.
Many Asian, African and Eastern European
countries freeing up their electricity markets are
preserving an artificial monopoly over the wholesale trading
of electricity...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22403Date: December 31, 2000Author:
Lovei,Laszlo
Unlike the poor in many developing
countries, those in Central and Eastern Europe, and the
former Soviet Union, are highly connected to network
utilities. During the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21478Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Lovei,Laszlo ;
Haney,Michael ;
Shkaratan,Maria ;
Gurenko,Eugene N. ;
O'Keefe,Philip B.
Small-scale providers of infrastructure
services, are proving to be more responsive than utilities,
to needs of poor consumers. They might be delivering water
services...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21480Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Trémolet, Sophie ;
Baker, Bill
Privatization of infrastructure services
is often followed by stricter enforcement of quality
standards, which raises costs, maintaining, or worsening the
exclusion...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21479Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Trémolet, Sophie ;
Baker, Bill
In many developing countries, the
regulation of infrastructure service standards is rigid, and
makes services too expensive for the poor. The current wave
of liberalization...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21481Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Trémolet, Sophie ;
Baker, Bill
The objective of Chile's port
reform, is to encourage investments for improved port
equipment, in the hope that this will lead to more efficient
service, in part by...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21483Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Foxley,Juan ;
Mardones,José Luis
Ports have become increasingly capital
intensive. Economies of scale have led to larger, more
specialized ships, and, competition between ports has
started to grow....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21482Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Trujillo Castellano,Lourdes ;
Nombela,Gustavo
This note, based on the World
Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI)
project database, reviews trends in infrastructure projects
with private participation...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21477Date: October 31, 2000Author:
van den Berg, Caroline
This note, based on the World
Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI)
project database, reviews trends in infrastructure projects
with private participation...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21476Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Houskamp,Melissa Lee ;
Tynan,Nicola Caroline
This note, which draws on the World
Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI)
database, provides an overview of recent trends in
infrastructure projects with...
Reform of the energy sector and reform
of subsidies ideally go hand in hand. Structural, ownership,
and regulatory reforms aimed at making services more
efficient should...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21469Date: July 31, 2000Author:
Jadresic,Alejandro
In developing countries the provision of
water and sanitation services is often subsidized. These
subsidies take the form of a general underpricing of water,
numerous...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21166Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Gomez-Lobo, Andres ;
Foster, Vivien ;
Halpern, Jonat
Reform of the water, electricity, and
telecommunications sectors is gathering momentum in nearly
all developing countries. Reform should include an
assessment of whether...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21468Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Gomez-Lobo, Andres ;
Foster, Vivien ;
Halpern, Jonathan
Direct subsidies are an increasingly
popular means of making infrastructure services more
affordable to the poor. Under the direct subsidy approach,
governments pay...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21467Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Gomez-Lobos, Andres ;
Halpern, Jona
From 1990 to 1999 there were 700 energy
projects in developing countries involving private
participation. Investment in these projects totaled nearly
US$190 billion,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21464Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Izaguirre Alvarado Bradley,Ada Karina
Unless energy can be produced and
delivered more cheaply, it will stay beyond the reach of
many of the poor. For energy delivered through networks, the
costs that matter...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21465Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Powell,Stephen ;
Starks,Mary
Government interventions in energy
markets have many effects on the poor. But there has been
little measurement of these effects, making it hard to know
exactly what...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21466Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Foster,Vivien
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