Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …

increasingly unsustainable budget implications, a new strategy has begun to reform the subsidy system in the energy sector while …

The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan … (China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …. Experiences with diagnosis-related groups in Korea and Taiwan (China) point to cost-savings but also to possible knock-on effects …

Morocco charted its own distinctive path of power sector reform. It selectively introduced private sector participation … through this selective approach to reform have come somewhat at the expense of the financial viability of the incumbent …

The Philippines power sector underwent a substantial and largely complete reform process. Following a severe shortage … National Power Corporation extremely burdensome, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act was passed in 2001. This was intended … at the wholesale and retail levels. Although the implementation of the full reform program took longer than originally …

Pakistan's power sector underwent a substantial, if protracted, reform process. Beginning with an independent power …

benefits of reform from materializing until much later. The failed first attempt with the Bujagali Hydropower independent power … substantial improvements in operational efficiency and accelerating service coverage. Although the reform model was eventually …

Two successive waves of reform have fundamentally altered the structure and organization of Kenya's vibrant power … wave -- beginning in 2002 and led by domestic reform champions -- the thrust of first-wave reforms was continued, with the …

estimates the impacts of the 2012 petroleum subsidies reform on household welfare and government revenues. It also simulates the … petroleum prices. The paper looks at the direct and indirect impacts of reform. Moreover, the paper discusses the political … economy considerations of reform. While the full removal of petroleum subsidies would have increased poverty, the compensatory …