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Transforming Electricity Governance in India

Khanna, Ashish; Singh, Daljit; Swain, Ashwini K. - 2015

Consumers’ participation in regulatory decision-making in infrastructure sectors can be critical to ensure effective regulatory governance. Providing avenues for enabling consumers’ voice in the regulatory process expands the information base available to regulators in their decision-making,...

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Governance in State-Owned Enterprises Revisited : The Cases of Water and Electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Andr??s, Luis Alberto; Guasch, Jos?? Luis; L??pez … - 2012

This paper studies the governance structure of state-owned enterprises in the water and electricity sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean. Through a unique dataset, the paper compares 44 leading state companies of the region based on an aggregate measure of corporate governance and six...

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Regulatory Governance and Sector Performance : Methodology and Evaluation for Electricity Distribution in Latin America

Andres, Luis; Guasch, Jos?? Luis; Lopez Azumendi, Sebasti??n - 2012

This paper contributes to the literature that explores the link between regulatory governance and sector performance. The paper develops an index of regulatory governance and estimates its impact on sector performance, showing that indeed regulation and its governance matter. The authors use two...

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Regulatory Agencies : Impact on Firm Performance and Social Welfare

Estache, Antonio; Rossi, Martin A. - 2012

The authors explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector. The authors exploit a unique dataset comprising firm-level information on a representative sample of 220 electric utilities from 51 development and transition...

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Current and Forthcoming Issues in the South African Electricity Sector

Kessides, Ioannis N.; Bogetic, Zeljko; Maurer, Luiz - 2012

One of the contentious issues in electricity reform is whether there are significant gains from restructuring systems that are moderately well run. South Africa's electricity system is a case in point. The sector's state-owned utility, Eskom, has been generating some of the lowest-priced...

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Assessing the Governance of Electricity Regulatory Agencies in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region : A Benchmarking Analysis

Andres, Luis; Guasch, Jos?? Luis; Diop, Makhtar - 2012

This paper focuses on an evaluation and benchmarking of the governance of regulatory agencies in the electricity sector … agencies in the LAC countries. The index is an aggregate number of the evaluation of four key governance characteristics … different components of each category. This evaluation allows for the identification of particular country shortcomings …

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Forecasting Investment Needs in South Africa's Electricity and Telecommunications Sectors

Bogeti??, ??eljko; Fedderke, Johannes W. - 2012

The authors use a panel-data set for the period 1980-2002 to estimate demand for electricity and telecommunications services and project investment needs in South Africa through 2010 for two growth scenarios. Projections of average annual investment needs in electricity and telecommunications...

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The Impact of Privatization on the Performance of the Infrastructure Sector : The Case of Electricity Distribution in Latin American Countries

Andres, Luis; Foster, Vivien; Guasch, Jos?? Luis - 2012

The authors analyze the impact of privatization on the performance of 116 electric utilities in 10 Latin American countries. The analysis makes a number of contributions to the literature on changes in infrastructure ownership. First, this is the first systemic analysis of the impact of...

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Is Cost Recovery a Feasible Objective for Water and Electricity? The Latin American Experience

Foster, Vivien; Yepes, Tito - 2012

Given the relatively small segment of the population that faces genuine affordability problems in Latin America, there appears to be a promising case for using targeted subsidies to reconcile the cost recovery objective with social protection concerns. Social tariff schemes of various kinds are...

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Regulatory Effectiveness and the Empirical Impact of Variations in Regulatory Governance : Electricity Industry Capacity and Efficiency in Developing Countries

Cubbin, John; Stern, John - 2012

The authors assess for 28 developing countries over the period 1980-2001 whether the existence of a regulatory law and higher quality regulatory governance are significantly associated with superior electricity outcomes. Their analysis draws on theoretical and empirical work on the impact of...

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