covers resource and institutional endowments, key reform steps, market structure, performance, and various impacts. "--World …

an efficient wholesale market. These features of the electricity supply industry also make antitrust or competition law … the world, and many of them could have been prevented if a prospective market monitoring process backed by the prevailing … regulatory authority had been in place at the start of the market. "--World Bank web site …

"The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated … economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper … Claessens and Laeven first estimate for 16 countries a measure of banking system competition based on industrial organization …

strong evidence for bandwagon effects in humanitarian assistance. "--World Bank web site …

disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone …' approaches and first steps toward closing them. "--World Bank web site …