As the World Bank and partners aim to support governments in the Middle East and North Africa address the challenges that confront the water and sanitation sector, the development of an effective regulatory framework is seen as increasingly salient. In order to have impact in this space, some...

Like telecommunications reformers elsewhere, Arab countries have set up independent regulatory authorities to make objective, consistent, and non-arbitrary regulatory decisions. This is a major step forward and is already delivering positive results for consumers in the form of new and better...