National parks in developing countries
are home to the planet's most undervalued natural
assets. Positive experience with public-private
partnerships in nature conservation...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 37198Date: June 1, 2006Author:
Saporiti,Nicola Ruggero
Government inspections of firms are
important for enforcing regulations to protect public
health, safety, and the environment and to carry out
economic functions such...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 37197Date: June 1, 2006Author:
Coolidge, Jacqueline
Postconflict countries have had
difficulty attracting private investment in infrastructure,
and their growth and stability have suffered as a result.
But the success...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 35669Date: March 1, 2006Author:
Schwartz, Jordan ;
Halkyard, Pablo
As war and civil strife subside, can
governments turn to the private sector to restore basic
services? Post-conflict countries suffer from
disproportionately low levels...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 35668Date: March 1, 2006Author:
Halkyard,Pablo A. ;
Schwartz,Jordan Z. ;
Smith, Suzanne [editor]
Collateral can increase access to
finance, especially for small firms, and lead to better
terms for loan contracts. Many argue that firms are excluded
from formal credit...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 36079Date: March 1, 2006Author:
Fleisig,Heywood W. ;
Safavian,Mehnaz S. ;
Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
Resource flows from extractive
industries can be a lifeline for postconflict countries,
helping to fund critical reconstruction needs. But these
resources present issues...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 54120Date: February 1, 2006Author:
Bacon, Robert; Tordo, Silvana;
After two decades of privatization, has
government ownership and control of enterprises declined
substantially? A rigorous assessment is difficult in the
absence of...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 35330Date: February 1, 2006Author:
Kikeri,Sunita ;
Kolo,Aishetu Fatima
This Note highlights the adverse
consequences of informality for private sector development
and explains what governments can do about it. It uses new
data from the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 34992Date: December 1, 2005Author:
Kapaz, Emerson ;
Kenyon,Thomas
Land markets that allow access to
land-and to buildings-through secure property rights, at
transparent prices, and with efficient permitting processes
and land tax systems...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 34142Date: October 1, 2005Author:
Muir,Russell A. ;
Shen,Xiaofang
By some estimates more than 30 percent
of the developing world's GDP and 70 percent of its
workers are outside the official economy. The implications:
Most small firms...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 33320Date: August 1, 2005Author:
Anayiotos,Andrea ;
Palmade,Vincent
Drawing on the World Bank's Private
Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, this Note
reviews developments in the water and sewerage sector of
developing countries...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 33319Date: July 1, 2005Author:
Hunt,Catherine M. ;
Izaguirre Alvarado Bradley,Ada Karina
The market for aid is changing. These
days donors use a far greater array of instruments than in
the past, and operate in a context of far larger private
financial flows....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32842Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann
Countries with fully liberalized
telecommunications markets have adopted different mixes of
antitrust and sector-specific regulatory instruments. Does
the balance between...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32845Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Geradin,Damien ;
Kerf,Michel ;
Neto,Maria Isabel A. S.
Full liberalization of
telecommunications markets provides scope for relying
largely on general antitrust rules and institutions for
economic regulation. But at least...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32844Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Geradin,Damien ;
Kerf,Michel ;
Neto,Maria Isabel A. S.
Among the countries fully liberalizing
their telecommunicationssector, some have chosen to rely
mainly on sector-specific rules,often applied by
sector-specific institutions,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32843Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Kerf, Michel ;
Neto, Isabel ;
Geradim, Damien
Private financial flows such as foreign
direct investment seem toencourage economic growth and
relieve poverty in part because theycreate excellent
incentives for transferring...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32841Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann
More than ever, governments in
developing countries have access to capital markets, but
most are not using it. Instead, they have restructured their
debt portfolios,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32838Date: April 1, 2005Author:
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann ;
Martin,Facundo S.
Many studies have found that countries
with abundant natural resources grow more slowly than those
withouta phenomenon often known as the resource curse or
the curse...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32840Date: April 1, 2005Author:
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Klein. Michael
Private financial flows to developing
countries, such as debt,equity, remittances, and private
charitable giving, have increaseddramatically over the past
20 years....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32839Date: April 1, 2005Author:
Hadjimichael,Bita ;
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann
Drawing on the World Bank's private
participation in infrastructure project database, this note
reviews developments in the telecommunications sector in
2003. Data for...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 54119Date: April 1, 2005Author:
Izaguirre, Ada Karina;
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