This report studies impediments to investment and private sector development in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, and Serbia and Montenegro. It aims to yield fundamentally new insights for improving the region's...

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Overview; Introduction; Sample Selection; Tables; O.1 Countries Selected for Case Study Analysis of Energy Subsidy Reforms; Figures; O.1 Distribution of Sample Countries by Energy Net Exports or Imports; O.2 Distribution of Sample Countries by...

The current distribution of power markets around intermediate structures between full integration and unbundling suggests that there has not been a linear path to reform in practice. Instead, many developing countries may retain intermediate structures in the foreseeable future. This possibility...