Infrastructure industries and services are crucial for generating economic growth, alleviating poverty, and increasing international competitiveness. Safe water is essential for life, and health. Reliable electricity saves businesses and consumers from having to invest in expensive backup...

Infrastructure is crucial for generating growth, alleviating poverty, and increasing international competitiveness. For much of the twentieth century and in most countries, the network utilities that delivered infrastructure services such as electricity, natural gas, telecommunications,...

As regions around the world are considering increased integration of key energy, transport or other infrastructure networks, issues build in the design of the supranational national regulation needed in that context are increasingly well recognized. Solutions are however slow to emerge. This...

The paper deals with the problem of analysis the concept of general economic importance as the format of regulation of infrastructure industries. The EU Commission in 2003-2004 initiated the discussion of new format for regulating infrastructure industries as services of "general economic...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- The Report Team -- Executive Summary -- State-owned Monopolies Often Exhibited Poor Performance ... -- . . .Leading to a New Model for Financing and Providing Infrastructure -- The New Model Poses Risks-But Also Holds Considerable Promise -- What Effects Have...

This title provides a practical guide for regulators, policy-makers, and utility managers for establishing regulatory accounts that can be the cornerstone for better, more complete, and more reliable information. It sets out the essential accounting features of regulatory accounts and provides...

Nigeria's poor infrastructure development has long been an inhibiting factor to unlocking Africa's largest economy. In this paper, I argue that Nigeria's Constitution is complicit in occasioning this infrastructural quagmire, owing to the fact that it unduly hinders sub-nationals in Nigeria from...