This paper assesses Brazil’s regulatory framework and agencies for several network industries (electricity, oil and gas, and water and sanitation). Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this end, recent initiatives include a new regulatory...

Steadily increasing demand for water poses a threat to sustainabledevelopment, and an increasing number of regions are chronicallyshort of water. Putting caps on water consumption, increasing water useefficiencies, and supporting improved sharing of water resources are nowcritical to reducing...

Given the increasing importance of gas in the Mozambican economy, the success of institutional reforms is key to the country's economic prospects of benefiting positively from the expected gas bonanza. In this paper we analyze the performance of the new institutional reforms (NIA) in Mozambique,...