Après avoir relevé les divers défis affectant la régulation des industries de réseau et discuté de la pertinence des modèles disséminés par les institutions financières des pays en voie de développement, l'ouvrage met en lumière les inquiétudes des acteurs de l'industrie et les...

The questioning of how public investments decisions are made leads to a two-level problematic. On the one hand, public decision makers have constrained resources that they have to use the best way they can. On the other hand, by choosing between alternative investments projects, decision makers...

In this paper we present evidence of the flypaper effect on unconditional transfers in the Mexican municipalities during the 1990 to 2007 period. Using panel data, we also confirm an asymmetric effect. That is, authorities increase expenditures by a greater amount in response to an increase in...

Este capítulo consta de tres secciones. En la primera, se revisa rápidamente la situación actual de cada una de las infraestructuras de los cuatros servicios públicos bajo análisis: Agua potable, electricidad, telecomunicaciones y transporte. En la segunda sección, se realiza una...

El presente documento tiene como fin realizar un análisis general del presupuesto público del sector saneamiento. Se divide como sigue: en primer lugar, se brinda una descripción general del sector. En segundo lugar, se analiza el financiamiento del mismo y los gastos realizados. En tercer...

The expansion of knowledge is commonly understood as a key driver of economic growth. Yet, while knowledge production and economic growth have been extensively studied in isolation, few studies have tried to formalise the mechanism connecting the two elements from a spatial general equilibrium...

The aftermath of the global economic and financial crisis of 2007-2008 underlined the importance of maintaining fiscal space and fiscal sustainability. Many Asian economies implemented fiscal stimulus policies during the crisis, and their fiscal conditions generally improved rapidly thereafter,...

PPP offers numerous benefits to both public and private partners in delivery of infrastructure projects. However this partnership also involves great risks which have to be adequately managed and mitigated. Private partners are especially sensitive to revenue risk, since they are mostly...

This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service deliverywhen mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatmentpolicies in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Based on a regression discontinuity design, we establisha causal...

The theory of the political economy of trade policy, combining public choice and neoclassical trade theories, studies the level and pattern of trade intervention from the perspective of policy decision-making process, by stressing on income distribution instead of economic efficiency. The paper...