Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Competition, Competition Policy, and Growth -- Competition and Growth -- Product Market Regulation and Economic Performance -- Competition Policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Competitiveness and...

Intro -- Contents -- Cover -- Title -- Foreword vii -- Acknowledgments viii -- Abbreviations and Acronyms ix -- 1 The Private Sector and Poverty Reduction 1 -- 2 The Investment Climate 17 -- 3 Public Intervention to Promote Supply Response 71 -- 4 Private Participation and Markets for Basic...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Title -- Abstract -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1. Sector Review and Key Issues -- Chapter 2. Promoting Competitiveness -- Chapter 3. Improving Factor Markets -- Chapter 4. Risk Management Instruments --...

This ebook aims to provide a deeper understanding of global trade and investment flows and how they affect the competitiveness of economies. There have been some tectonic shifts in global flows both in terms of actual goods and services and also in terms of financial capital. The emerging...

After 2 decades, policymakers and regulators agree that electricity market reform, liberalization and privatization remains partly art. Moreover, the international experience suggests that in nearly all cases, initial market reform leads to unintended consequences or introduces new risks, which...

The competitive dynamics of strategic groups perform a major role in shaping the competitive background of industries. Strategic groups are sets of companies within an industry that follow related strategies or have comparable characteristics, such as product offerings, target markets, or...

There has been increasing interest and debate in recent years on the instituted nature of economic processes in general and the related ideas of the market, in particular the competitive process. This debate lies at the interface between two largely independent disciplines, economics and...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these...