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Water Price Reforms in Senegal: Distributional Impact Analysis

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - In: Journal of African Development 11 (2009) 1

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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Efficiency effects of "privatization" in Argentina's water and sanitation services

Estache, Antonio; Trujillo, Lourdes - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2003

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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Assessing the Impact of Mali's Water Privatization across Stakeholders

Estache, Antonio; Griffel-Tatjé, Emili - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2011

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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Assessing the impact of Mali’s water privatization across stakeholders

Estache, Antonio; Grifell-Tatjé, Emili - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

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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Utilities reforms and corruption in developing countries

Estache, Antonio; Goicoechea, A.; Trujillo, Lourdes - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2008

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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Dealing with Demand Forecasting Games in Transport Privatization

Estache, Antonio; Trujillo, Lourdes; Quinet, E. - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2002

Privatization has increased the number of players in the decision-making process for major transport investment …

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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in Brazil: The Case of Freight Railways

Estache, Antonio; Goldstein, Andrea; Pittman, Russell - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 1 (2001) 2, pp. 203-235

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A Poverty and Inequality Impact Assessment of Liberalization of Water Utility in Senegal: A Macro-Micro Analysis

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2005

Many argued that water accessibility to the poor has been improved with the privatization of water utilities and that … privatization on the whole has been beneficial to the poor households. In this paper, we used a multi-household integrated CGE model … to analyze the impact of the privatization of the water utilities in Senegal on poverty and inequality and we also …

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Electricity Reforms in Senegal: A Macro–Micro Analysis of the Effects on Poverty and Distribution

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007

This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) macro-micro model to explore the distributional effects of price reform in the electricity sector of Senegal. In the first part of the paper we analyze the distribution of electricity in Senegal by income quintiles, between 1995 and 2001....

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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in Brazil: The Case of Freight Railways

Estache, Antonio; Goldstein, Andrea; Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

A variety of proposals for creating more competition within the railroad sector and in the broader freight transport sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in...

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