This paper describes the index-based livestock insurance program in Mongolia designed in the context of a World Bank … lending operation with Government of Mongolia and implemented on a pilot basis in 2005. This program involves a combination of … losses, with excess of loss reinsurance provided by the government. The fiscal exposure of Government of Mongolia toward the …

This paper shows empirically that "privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the … privatization and the introduction of independent regulators have, at best, only partial effects on the consequences of corruption …