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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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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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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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Utility privatization and the needs of the poor in Latin America - Have we learned enough to get it right?

Estache, Antonio; Gomez-Lobo, Andres; Leipziger, Danny - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

Efforts to reform utilities can affect poor households in varied, often complex, ways, but it is by no means certain that such reform will hurt vulnerable households. Many myths have been perpetuated in discussions of utility reform - and in many cases poor households have benefited from reform....

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PPI partnerships versus PPI divorces in developing countries (or are we switching from PPPI to PPDI?)

Estache, Antonio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

Thirty years ago, in 1974, Chile launched the first large-scale privatization in a developing country. About 15 years later, Argentina provided a new model of global infrastructure management. Since then a variety of public-private partnerships in infrastructure have been adopted throughout the...

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Where do we stand on transport infrastructure deregulation and public-private partnership?

Estache, Antonio; Serebrisky, Tomas - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The evolution of transport public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing and developed countries since the early 1990s seems to be following a similar path: private initiatives work for a while but after a shock to the sector takes place the public sector returns as regulator, owner or...

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An introduction to financial and economic modeling for utility regulators

Estache, Antonio; Rodriguez Pardina, Martin; Rodriguez, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

The most effective regulators in developing countriesare following remarkably similar approaches. The main common element across"best practice"countries is the use of relatively simple quantitative models of operators'behavior and constraints to measure the impact of regulatory decisions on some...

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