disparate actions of political parties and sector institutions. Ambitious targets for electricity access, liberalization, and …-setting and an array of entrenched cross-subsidies. Other vulnerabilities include the continued but declining dependence on …

Catherine Liston -- The economics of access and interconnection charges in telecommunications / Timothy J. Tardiff -- Regulation … and the structure of the telecommunications industry / Gregory M. Duncan and Lisa J. Cameron -- The regulation of energy …

"The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of … noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so … that public subsidies decline. This benefit for tax-payers comes at the cost of price increases for consumers. In …