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Market structure and performance : the role of international factors in a trade liberalization
Melo, Jaime de; Urata, Shujiro - 1984
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452364
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Revisiting Policy Options on the Market Structure in the Power Sector
World Bank - 2014
The objectives of this study are to develop a taxonomy of the existing power market structures, as shown by the extent of vertical and horizontal unbundling found among restructured power systems, across developing countries; to design an analytical framework for assessing the desirability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561026
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International Experience with Cross-border Power Trading
World Bank - 2013
The five main lessons for Southern Africa from our review of the experiencewith cross-border power trading in other regions of the work are that: Security of supply concerns need to be explicitly addressed and understood by the parties to proposed cross-border transactions. Regional entities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557825
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Symbolic public goods and the coordination of collective action : a comparison of local development in India and Indonesia
Rao, Vijayendra - 2005
. In this paper, building on work in social theory, the author argues that common property can also be social … understanding collective action. He illustrates the point by contrasting how conceptions of nationalism in Indonesia and India …-help) that was both internalized and coercively enforced. India emphasized democratic decentralization through the panchayat …
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Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?
Murgai, Rinku - 2005
? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …
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Toward a microeconomics of growth
Burgess, Robin - 2004
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Power System Planning in India : Incorporating Environmental Externality Costs and Benefits
World Bank - 2012
This paper has been prepared in accordance with the terms of reference for a study on power system planning in India … as in India and compares the figures available. It also comments on the validity of the external cost estimates available … and the use made of them in power system planning and regulation both outside and inside India. The structure is as …
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A practical approach to pharmaceutical policy
Seiter, Andreas - 2010
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Pharmaceutical reform : a guide to improving performance and equity
Roberts, Marc J. - 2011
This publication, which is based on the unique methodology and tools developed for the World Bank Institute/Harvard School of Public Health Flagship Course on Health System Reform and Sustainable Financing, provides a powerful set of resources to help policy makers better navigate the...
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