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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 … implications for households' welfare. The analysis finds important gains in welfare among current users of telecom services, with …
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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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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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costly regulation established to address these problems, leading to only a small number of providers, even in developed …
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How do inexperienced consumers learn to use a new financial technology? This paper presents results from a field experiment that introduced payroll accounts in a population of largely unbanked factory workers in Bangladesh. In the experiment, workers in a treatment group received monthly wage...
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