Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Overview of Infrastructure in Honduras -- Part 1. A Cross-Sector Vision of Infrastructure and Development -- 1. Country Background and the Economic Importance of Infrastructure -- 2. The Organization of Infrastructure Services...

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 -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- I. COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION -- II. NATIONAL COURTS -- 1 -- Context and Methodology -- I. THE CONTEXT: EUROPEAN REGULATORY PRIVATE LAW -- II. METHODOLOGY -- III. THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- 2 -- Convergence in Private Law,...

By examining countries in four continents this book discusses the underlying causes of the problems associated with public enterprise, and critically examines some of the solutions that have been adopted

The contributors to this book discuss the case for monitoring privatization, and argue that without monitoring it will be impossible to show whether or not the process fulfils its objectives and contributes to improved economic performance

Over the last twenty-five years, there has been an acceleration in the move from government regulation towards privatization. Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region is the first thoroughgoing account of the relative success of the different approaches to...

This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the...

Infrastructure in Lesotho is relatively undeveloped with poor coverage and low-quality services common to many African countries that have low per capita incomes and government fiscal limitations that constrain infrastructure investment. This report finds that private participation in...