In recent years the fight against
corruption has assumed a key place in development policy, as
a way of strengthening economic growth and helping civil
society and democracy...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 26833Date: April 1, 2000Author:
Laszlo Lovei, and Alastair McKechnie
The Renewable Resources Development
(RRD) project, the first of its kind for the World Bank in
supporting renewable energy commercial market development,
became operational...
One of the world’s ten poorest and most
densely populated countries, Bangladesh has one of the least
developed telecommunications systems, with a penetration
rate of...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21462Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Meyenn,Natalie ;
Lawson,Cina
Competitive markets go a long way toward
making telecommunications services available throughout the
population. But governments often seek to extend access to
services...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21463Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Wellenius,Bjorn
More than ninety developing economies
opened their telecommunications sector to private
participation between 1990 and 1998. These countries
transferred to the private...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21461Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Izaguirre Alvarado Bradley,Ada Karina
Regulators of concessions in newly
privatized infrastructure sectors typically start the price
control process with limited sectoral and corporate data. To
move toward...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21460Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Burns, Phil ;
Estache, antonio
During the 1990s private sponsors have
participated in projects involving eighty-nine airports in
twenty-three developing countries, with investment totaling
US$5.4...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19933Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Da Silva,Gisele F.
Auctions may be an appropriate way to
reorganize the liabilities of some overindebted East Asian
firms those that are generally well run, for which there is
merit in...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19932Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Ramachandran.S ;
Hausch,Donald B.
In August 1999 the Moroccan government
awarded a second mobile telecommunications license through
international tender. All bidders made commitments on
quality, coverage,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19930Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Rossotto,Maria Carlo ;
Wellenius,Björn
Resolving systemic banking and corporate
distress is not easy. The large scale of the East Asian
financial crisis has made the task even more daunting in
Indonesia,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19931Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Claessens,Stijn ;
Djankov,Simeon ;
Klingebiel,Daniela M. H.
Banks fail with alarming frequency,
resulting in large losses of taxpayer money. A key factor in
the high failure rate is the flawed governance mechanism,
which exacerbates...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19929Date: October 31, 1999Author:
Leechor,Chad
The global catastrophe insurance market
exhibits inherent cyclical risks. Disaster-prone countries
can improve their protection against catastrophic risk and
premium...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19928Date: October 31, 1999Author:
Pollner,John Daniel
The trend of liberalizing and
privatizing infrastructure activities that began in a few
countries in the 1970s and 1980s turned into a wave that has
swept the world...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19927Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Roger,Neil D.
The private sector has become
increasingly involved in the operation of common-user port
facilities during the 1990s, following public sector
dominance of the sector...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22401Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Sommer,Dirk
Recent power outages in Argentina are
largely the result of transmission problems that could be
solved by more investment. Private concessionaires now
operate the main...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 54115Date: September 1, 1999Author:
Abdala, Manuel Angel ;
Chambouleyron, Andres
This Note reports an analysis of
ultimate control in nearly 3,000 publicly traded companies
in December 1996-before the financial crisis-in nine East
Asian economies:...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 26846Date: September 1, 1999Author:
Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov, and Larry
H. P. Lang
Following the wave of recent financial
turmoil, many developing countries have learned the value of
an effective bankruptcy system in deterring excessive use of
debt...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 26845Date: September 1, 1999Author:
Chad Leechor
Changes in corporate control-through
mergers, takeovers, acquisitions, divestitures, and the
like-enhance shareholders' value. They allow the
businesses to be transferred...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 26843Date: September 1, 1999Author:
Chad Leechor
In the transition from state-owned
monopolies to privately led and increasingly competitive
market structures in telecommunications, poor performance of
regulatory agencies...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22400Date: July 31, 1999Author:
Wellenius,Björn ;
Smith,Peter L.
In all but a few advanced countries most
publicly listed corporations are closely held, with the main
shareholder typically playing an active role in management.
In...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 26842Date: July 1, 1999Author:
Chad Leechor
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