Some people think the best way to give
aid is through grants. Others advocate aid embedded in
subsidized loans. Mostly, incentive effects on donors and
recipients are...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32768Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann
This note considers the future of aid
from the perspective of the 2005-2030 time frame. It offers
a possible scenario for the future, with booming private
remittances...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32124Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Klien,Michael ;
Tilmes,Klaus
This note considers the future of aid
from the perspective of the 2005-2030 time frame. It offers
a possible scenario for the future, with responses of the
aid industry...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32125Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Klien,Michael
During the 1980s and 1990s the Chilean
water and sanitation sector underwent deep reforms so that
private capital could finance the huge investments needed to
achieve...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 32126Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Arellano, Pamela ;
Bitran,Gabriel A.
During the 1990s Mexico undertook some
of the world's most far-reaching reforms of business
regulations. Many factors, including trade liberalization
and firm political...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 31561Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Kikeri,Sunita ;
Salas,Fernando Jose
Using data from 270 water and sanitation
providers, this Note investigates the relationship between a
utility's size and its operating costs. The current
trend toward...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 31562Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Kingdom, Bill ;
Tynan,Nicola Caroline
Drawing on the Bank's Private
Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, this Note
reviews developments in the electricity sector in 2003. Data
for the year show...
Somalia has lacked a recognized
government since 1991-an unusually long time. In extremely
difficult conditions the private sector has demonstrated its
much-vaunted...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 31027Date: November 1, 2004
This Note reviews trends in official
development assistance, focusing on volumes, sources, forms,
and recipients. Several patterns emerge. First, a long-term
trend of...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 31026Date: October 1, 2004Author:
Harford, Tim ;
Hadjimichael, Bita ;
Klein, Michael
Critics of the aid industry have accused
it of acting like a cartel (Easterly 2002). The accusation
has some bite-globally the industry remains somewhat
concentrated,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 31029Date: October 1, 2004Author:
Hadjimichael,Bita ;
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann
Every year oil producers flare and vent
gas equivalent to the combined gas consumption of Central
and South America. Africa flares and vents gas equivalent to
half its...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 31031Date: October 1, 2004Author:
Djumena,Sascha ;
Gerner,Franz ;
Svensson,Bent R.
Many developing countries are becoming
oil exporters, producing crude oils that often differ
markedly in quality from those principally traded.
Governments must predict...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 30394Date: October 1, 2004Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Tordo,Silvana
It would be hard to disagree with the
objectives of the international aid industry. But how much
are donors contributing to their achievement? Despite recent
progress,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 31030Date: October 1, 2004Author:
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann
The fall in foreign direct investment
(FDI) since 1999 and China's growing share, worry most
developing countries. But an in-depth look reveals new and
promising trends....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 30395Date: September 1, 2004Author:
Palmade,Vincent ;
Anayiotas, Andrea
Drawing on the Bank's Private
Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, this Note
reviews developments in 2003. Data for the year show that
investment in projects...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 30393Date: September 1, 2004Author:
Izaguirre Alvarado Bradley,Ada Karina
Activists are often unhappy with the
laws governing business behavior and with their enforcement.
One strategy they use to alter the behavior of corporations
is to target...
Regulating infrastructure utilities can
be extremely complex and fraught with risks of political
interference and capture by interest groups, especially in
countries...
Paraguay's aguateros-small private
water companies-form an important part of the water sector,
serving about 9 percent of the total population (or about 17
percent of...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 29991Date: April 1, 2004Author:
Bakalian,Alexander E. ;
Dress, Franz ;
Schwartz,Jordan Z.
Over the past decade most developing
economies have involved the private sector in providing
infrastructure services. Indeed, between 1990 and 2002, 136
low- and middle-income...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 28083Date: February 1, 2004
This Note explores the relationship
between the size of the small and medium-size enterprise
(SME) sector and economic growth and poverty reduction. A
new study finds...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 29898Date: February 1, 2004Author:
Beck,Thorsten ;
Demirguc-Kunt,Asli
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