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This paper focuses on the distribution impact from Senegal’s water reforms with emphasis on rates reforms. We first analyze the evolution of consumption patterns before and after the reforms. We found that most of the gains accrue to the highest income classes while the poor have seen little...
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the poor have benefited from privatization. The book presents a careful analysis of the various mechanisms through which … privatization has an impact on welfare, an analysis that by and large has been missing from the debate. Case studies of water sector … privatization in Argentina and Colombia, and also the telecom industry in Peru are included. …
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'Privatization in Latin America' evaluates the empirical evidence on privatization in a region that has witnessed an … provide a comprehensive analysis of the record of and accusations against privatization, with important recommendations for … will be vital to anyone interested in the privatization debate but especially to those involved in civil service reform …
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This paper provides a "back-of-the-envelope" assessment of the efficiency effects of the reforms of the water sector in Argentina. Private operators are now key players in 15 of Argentina's provinces. While all have adopted incentive based regulatory regimes which require estimates of economic...
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privatization in different countries. The discussed effects include: effects on consumers, tax-payers, workers, shareholders; on …
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This paper offers a quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization experience in … privatization. Second and contrary to what is often claimed, users benefited through lower real water prices. Third, labor …
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Is privatization per se socially beneficial? Or do those benefits depend on the subsequent changes in the regulatory … counterfactuals about British Telecom privatization and regulation. In the factual scenario, the British government decided to …
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The standard electricity industry reform paradigm in several EU countries since the 1990s includes privatization … insists on a rather unified approach, aiming at the full opening of the internal market. Privatization neither is a necessary … and survey data on consumer satisfaction in the EU-15. Our empirical findings reject the prediction that privatization …
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This paper offers a unique quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization … intermediate suppliers and investors have also clearly benefited during the short privatization duration. However the paper also …
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This paper shows empirically that "privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the … that privatization and the introduction of independent regulators have, at best, only partial effects on the consequences …
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