To manage their exposure arising from
guarantees to infrastructure projects, governments need to
adopt modern risk management techniques. The authors
introduce an integrated...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18439Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Lewis,Christopher M. ;
Mody,Ashoka
When privatization is not feasible or
palatable, developing country governments seeking to improve
the performance of state enterprises are often negotiating
performance...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18441Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Shirley,Mary M.
The authors discuss the impact of the
East Asian financial crisis on the power sectors of four of
the most severely affected economies-Indonesia, Malaysia,
the Philippines,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18436Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Gray, R. David ;
Schuster, John
The Southern African Power Pool (SAPP),
the first formal international pool to be set outside North
American and Western Europe, was inaugurated in 1995. While
the utilities...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18347Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Charpentier,Jean-Pierre ;
Minogue,Diane Catherine ;
O'Leary,Donal T.
The Bolivia-Brazil natural gas pipeline,
which will transport natural gas more than 3,000 kilometers,
will cost US 2.1 billion dollars to construct. Despite the
substantial...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18346Date: May 31, 1998Author:
Law,Peter L. ;
De Franco,Nelson
The Greater Mekong subregion--Cambodia,
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand,
Vietnam, and the Yunnan Province of southern China--has good
potential for...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17900Date: May 31, 1998Author:
Crousillat,Enrique O.
The World Bank has agreed to support
power sector reforms in Haryana with a new type of lending
instrument--the adaptable program loan--recently approved by
its board...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17899Date: May 31, 1998Author:
Mostefai,Djamal
Russia's power system is enormous
consisting of more than 200 gigawatts of generation
capacity, most of it interconnected by 2.5 million
kilometers of high-voltage transmission...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18345Date: April 30, 1998Author:
Wilson,Margaret A.
International equity offerings are now a
well-established privatization route for telecommunications
companies - in addition to local offerings and sale to a
strategic...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17754Date: April 30, 1998Author:
Mustafa,Mohammad Taimur ;
Fink,Carsten
The United States has the world's
largest natural gas market. Fifteen years of deregulation
have delivered significant gains to consumers in the form of
lower prices...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17897Date: April 30, 1998Author:
Juris,Andrej
Countries in Asia, Europe, and North and
South America are introducing reforms to boost efficiency
and attract new private investment in their natural gas
industries....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17516Date: March 31, 1998Author:
Juris,Andrej
The deregulation of the United Kingdom
(U.K.) natural gas industry has facilitated new entry and
competition in almost all segments of the industry except
pipeline transportation....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17547Date: March 31, 1998Author:
Juris,Andrej
In this case study the government is
initially the monopoly supplier of travel and freight
service - by ferry, jetfoil, and airplane - between two
islands. It then allows...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18344Date: December 31, 1997Author:
de Rus, Gines
The author offers a number of reasons
for separating rail infrastructure from operations: to
reduce unit costs, to create intrarail competition, to
better focus on the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17283Date: December 31, 1997Author:
Thompson,Louis Stanley
The authors review a number of recent
innovative rail concessions. Each country has approached its
problems differently, and each provides different insights
into what...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17368Date: December 31, 1997Author:
Thompson, Louis S. ;
Budin, Karim-Jacques
Many countries are privatizing their
infrastructure sectors, setting up independent regulatory
agencies, and putting in place transparent control
instruments and processes...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17369Date: November 30, 1997Author:
Green, Richard
Hatton National Bank is the largest
private commercial bank in Sri Lanka and one of the handful
of commercial banks in the world that have initiated
microfinance programs....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18327Date: November 30, 1997Author:
Gallardo, Joselito S. ;
Randhawa, Bikki K. ;
Sacay,
Price controls -- typically reviewed
every five years in the United Kingdom -- have been
controversial. The author traces the development of U.K.
price controls and...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17232Date: November 30, 1997Author:
Green, Richard
Telecommunications Reform -privatization
and opening markets to competition- can be a positive-sum
game in which all stakeholders gain: customers, existing and
new operators,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17222Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Wellenious, Bjorn
Some governments are reluctant to
surrender political control over regulatory decisions, and
some who agree on the general desirability of independent
agencies may question...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17315Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Smith,Warrick P.
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