"The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications … it affects performance and interacts with reform policies. "--World Bank web site …

experience in four sectors: telecommunications, financial, water and sanitation, and energy services. For each sector, an … also helps to determine how far the services negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO), under the general …

-based growth and most importantly, poverty reduction. It does this by combining an assessment of the investment climate faced by …

The World Bank Group estimates that, by 2030, up to two-thirds of the world's extreme poor will live in countries … characterized by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV). The Bank's FCV strategy emphasizes the critical role the private sector …'s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) for over a decade. In fact, IFC and MIGA …

accounted for more than US$3.2 billion in investment commitments. In addition, a combined electricity and water project was … implemented, representing investment of US$600 million. The number of new projects involving the private sector returned to the … peak of 2005, while annual investment commitments grew by 18 percent, though from a low level in 2006. …

contrast, domestic regulatory impediments to competition are not robustly correlated with product innovation. "--World Bank web …

the policies to forestall them. The paper concludes by identifying directions for future research. "--World Bank web site …