The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of … noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so … developing countries, tight budget constraints imply that privatization may be optimal for low profitability segments. For highly …

have limited access to credit. Ultimately, plans that included credit for the payment of infrastructure charges were not … involved employing workers from poor families in infrastructure extension works. 6) Beware of the latent opportunism of users …

This paper explores the benefits and the costs of strengthening infrastructure assets to make them more resilient …, reducing the repair costs and infrastructure disruptions caused by natural hazards. Strengthening infrastructure assets in low … billion and $65 billion a year, i.e. 3 percent of baseline infrastructure investment needs. The uncertainty pertaining to the …

infrastructure operators and 23 transport services operators distributed over 23 countries. The authors show that leverage rates vary …, Infrastructure Network - is part of a larger effort in the network to generate quantitative information on infrastructure …

pricing behavior. These findings have important implications for the design of post-privatization regulatory governance in …

This paper shows empirically that privatization in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the … privatization and the introduction of independent regulators have, at best, only partial effects on the consequences of corruption …

sector, in particular, are factors that attract private capital into infrastructure projects. The authors investigate these … key determinant of private investors' investment in infrastructure projects, and that investors tend to take countries … financial sector also plays a significant role in private investors' decisions to enter infrastructure sectors. In particular …

Projects and reforms targeting infrastructure services can affect consumer welfare through changes in the price … in the quality of infrastructure services within the broader theoretical perspective of welfare measurement. The study … applications of a new approach to analyzing the effects of interruptions in the supply of infrastructure services on household …