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. The "first generation of reforms" encompassed widespread privatization, deregulation and restructuring of the provision of … current challenges, leading to the consolidation of the initial reforms. This volume deals with post-privatization dispute …
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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...
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This overview of the first 40 years of the Inter-American Development Bank shows that the main source of financing for development in Latin America and the Caribbean has been an innovative and flexible institution.Abstract: Esta es una reseña de los primeros 40 años de actividad del Banco...
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Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews...
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the poor have benefited from privatization. The book presents a careful analysis of the various mechanisms through which … privatization has an impact on welfare, an analysis that by and large has been missing from the debate. Case studies of water sector … privatization in Argentina and Colombia, and also the telecom industry in Peru are included. …
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is arguably the most comprehensive privatization impact analysis in the region to date, drawing on an extremely …
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Latin America loses about nine trillion cubic meters of water each year, or some 30 percent of the water collected and treated for public consumption. While it is impossible for water systems to deliver 100 percent of their water to the household tap, Latin America could cut those losses by more...
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'Privatization in Latin America' evaluates the empirical evidence on privatization in a region that has witnessed an … provide a comprehensive analysis of the record of and accusations against privatization, with important recommendations for … will be vital to anyone interested in the privatization debate but especially to those involved in civil service reform …
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This paper studies the effects of water sector privatization on consumers' welfare in 46 municipalities in Colombia …. The paper evaluates the impact of privatization on access, price, and quality of water as well as health outcomes using … differences-in-differences methodology with variation across time (before and after privatization) and between treatment and …
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The incomplete privatization of the electric sector in Peru provides a unique scenario for evaluating the impact of …
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