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This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the relationship between Foreign Direct Investments and electricity poverty in Brazil in the period 1992-2021. With the opening up of the Brazilian economy in the 1990s policy makers expected that foreign investment would contribute to the development...
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Introduction -- Competition and innovation -- Designing competition policy -- Technological and trade competitiveness -- Why regulatory governance matters -- Regulatory policy transfer -- Regulating utilities in developing countries -- Problems of utility privatisation -- Regulating through...
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Protection against criminality is a traditional function of government. Where government fails, however, people often turn to the private sector. That is why there are three times as many private security guards as public police. The need for private security is greatest for low-income families,...
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This Article examines the appropriate balance between public and private enforcement of statutes seeking to distribute resources or social services to a socioeconomically diverse set of beneficiaries through a case study of the federal special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities...
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This article examines the effects on poverty of privatization, an impact to which donors have given little attention in … their concern with efficiency and markets. The analysis of the distributional impact of privatization activities draws on … a critical consideration of the World Bank position on privatization strategies, and the arguments presented by donors …
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