This note focuses on rail projects with
private participation, that reached financial closure in
1990-1997, surveying regional trends, types of private
participation,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19566Date: June 30, 1999Author:
Tynan,Nicola Caroline
Nontraditional infrastructure service
providers supply many low-income consumers in slums and
urban peripheries in developing countries. And technological
change has...
The note shares conflicting interests
hampering insolvency systems reform in Latin America, and
aims at assessing legal weaknesses, to propose some common
solutions....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21323Date: June 30, 1999Author:
Rowat,Malcolm D.
In the United States the courts have
long been involved in the oversight of regulators. In the
United Kingdom, which created its utility regulators from
scratch in the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19652Date: May 31, 1999Author:
Green, Richard
This paper examines the increasing
participation of the private sector in the transmission and
distribution of natural gas in developing countries during
the 1990s,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19158Date: April 30, 1999Author:
Izaguirre Alvarado Bradley,Ada Karina
Many governments, particularly in
developing and emerging market economies, still doubt the
benefits of competition in wireless services. But
international experience...
Only a handful of developing countries
have fully reformed their energy sectors - oil, gas, and
power. A World Bank survey of 115 developing countries shows
that on...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19157Date: April 30, 1999Author:
Bacon,Robert W.
A proposed Currency Convertibility Fund,
backstopped by a contingent credit from the International
Development Association (IDA)-the World Bank's
concessionary window...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21275Date: April 30, 1999Author:
Rasmussen,Karen T.
So far gas market liberalization has
generally occurred in mature markets - particularly where
much of the pipeline system has already been laid, as in
Argentina, Britain,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19268Date: April 30, 1999Author:
Lehmann, Peter
To help address a budgetary crisis in
early 1995, the Rio de Janeiro state government began
reforms aimed at selling or concessioning to the private
sector loss-making...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19439Date: April 30, 1999Author:
Rebelo,Jorge M.
In 1995, as the interim agreements
between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel
were signed, water and sanitation services in the Gaza Strip
were in crisis....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19172Date: April 30, 1999Author:
Saghir, Jamal ;
Sherwood, Elizabeth ;
Macoun, Andrew
Bolivia is one of a growing number of
developing countries turning to the private sector to
improve urban water and sanitation services. The
country's first major contract...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19219Date: April 30, 1999Author:
Komives, Kristin ;
Brook Cowen, Penelope J.
"It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age
of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch
of incredulity,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 26832Date: April 1, 1999Author:
Rob Shepherd
Argentina's natural gas industry
was privatized at the end of 1992. Prior to divestiture, the
state-owned monopoly Gas del Estado was divided into two
transport and...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 26831Date: April 1, 1999Author:
Andres Gomez-Labo, and Vivien Foster
New technology and the liberalization of
telecommunications markets are putting increasing stress on
the accounting rates regime - the system used by
telecommunications...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19059Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Braga,Carlos Alberto Primo ;
Forestier,Emmanuel ;
Stern,Peter A.
Scandinavia, where countries have traded
power for decades, has the world's most developed
international market for electricity. Recently the trading
system has changed...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19063Date: January 31, 1999Author:
CARLSSON, LENNART
This note reports the results of a study
that quantified the effect of currency and interest rate
shocks in East Asia on the liquidity and solvency of
nonfinancial corporations...
When state-owned enterprises preparing
for privatization have very high levels of redundant workers
and when social safety nets and redundancy provisions in
labor laws...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 54114Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Kikeri,Sunita
In water and sanitation there has always
been a belief that the sector has a high degree of natural
monopoly. But competition is widespread at the low-income
end of...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18725Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Solo, Tova Maria
Water sector reforms in recent years
have concentrated on involving the private sector in the
operation and management of monopoly water utilities. Much
effort has gone...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18724Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Webb, Michael ;
Ehrhardt, David
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