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Infrastructure restructuring and regulation - building a base for sustainable growth

Alexander, Ian; Estache, Antonio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

The link between economic growth, and better provision of infrastructure services may be unproven, but it is clear that reforms to make infrastructure services more competitive (where possible), and to provide strong, and independent economic regulation of natural monopolies, do create an...

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Forecasting the demand for privatized transport - What economic regulators should know, and why

Trujillo, Lourdes; Quinet, Emile; Estache, Antonio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

Forecasting has long been a challenge, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. But the analytical instruments and data processing capabilities available through the latest technology, and software, should allow much better forecasting than transport ministries, or regulatory agencies...

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Emerging infrastructure policy issues in developing countries - a survey of the recent economic literature

Estache, Antonio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

infrastructure decentralization; (5) what works and what does not when trying to target the needs of the poor, with an emphasis on …

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Comparing the performance of public and private water companies in the Asia and Pacific region : what a stochastic costs frontier shows

Estache, Antonio; Rossi, Martin A. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

Estache and Rossi estimate a stochastic costs frontier for a sample of Asian and Pacific water companies, comparing the performance of public and privatized companies based on detailed firm-specific information published by the Asian Development Bank in 1997. They find private operators of water...

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Privatization and regulation of transport infrastructure in the 1990s - successes...and bugs to fix for the next millennium

Estache, Antonio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

Governments should increasingly be able to rely on the private sector for help supporting (and financing) the transport sector - especially infrastructure support services for which there is heavy demand - but first they must improve their regulatory tools and sort out the institutional mess...

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Processes, information, and accounting gaps in the regulation of Argentina's private railways

Campos-Mendez, Javier; Estache, Antonio; Trujillo, Lourdes - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

Almost a decade after Argentina began privatizing its railways, resolution of conflicts between regulators, users, and operators continues to take longer, and to be more difficult, than expected. The authors contend that many of these conflicts arose because there are no rules for interactions...

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Infrastructure services in developing countries : access, quality, costs and policy reform

Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia; Estache, Antonio; Shafik, Nemat - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The authors review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing the investment needs and the emerging policy issues. While their assessment is seriously constrained by data gaps, they provide useful insights on the main challenges ahead, emphasizing that, in...

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Information, accounting, and the regulation of concessioned infrastructure monopolies

Burns, Phil; Estache, Antonio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

Economists often characterize the regulation of monopolies as a"game"(between the regulator and the service provider) in which the two players do not share the same information. The regulator is assumed to have poorer information than the service provider about the scope of future efficiency...

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Macroeconomics effects of private sector participation in Latin America's infrastructure

Trujillo, Lourdes; Martin, Noelia; Estache, Antonio; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

The authors provide empirical evidence on the impact that private participation in infrastructure has had on key macroeconomic variables in a sample of 21 Latin American countries from 1985-98. Specifically, they look at the effects on GDP per capita, current public expenditures, public...

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Does decentralization increase spending on public infrastructure?

Estache, Antonio; Sinha, Sarbajit - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1995

- decentralization is the most effective way to deliver service. Those services have been decentralized in many countries, and many … decentralization affected spending levels on infrastructure? The outcome reflects the net outcome of opposing effects. Spending … decentralization makes spending more of less efficient. Among the conclusions they offer the following. First, decentralization tends …

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