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Using panel data for 189 economies from 2005 to 2013, this paper shows that business-friendly regulations are correlated with the poverty headcount at the country level. This association is significant using the World Bank's Doing Business indicators on getting credit and contract enforcement....
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disparate actions of political parties and sector institutions. Ambitious targets for electricity access, liberalization, and …
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The Peruvian power market was established in 1992, amid serious supply constraints and financially distressed power utilities. Since its inception, the market has been adapted by competitive market reforms and adaptations due to government-driven public policy objectives. This paper analyzes the...
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-Saharan African countries. This paper simulates the impact of the introduction of competition on the telecom sector's prices and its …
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the links between four components of sector reform (unbundling, private sector participation, regulation, and competition … competition is not generally significant across studies. A notable feature of all of the studies is very limited testing of the …
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The paper studies the market failures associated with land tenure insecurity and information asymmetry in an urban land use model, and analyzes households' responses to mitigate tenure insecurity. When buyers and sellers of land plots can pair along trusted kinship lines whereby deception (the...
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