Документы и доклады
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Are returns to private infrastructure in developing countries consistent with risks since the Asian crisis? (Английский)
This paper presents a basic assessment of the financial performance of infrastructure service operators in developing countries. It relies on a new database of 120 companies put together to track the evolution...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS3373 Дата подготовки документа: 1 августа 2004 года Автор: Estache, Antonio, Pinglo, Maria Elena
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The limits to competition in urban bus services in developing countries (Английский)
The authors make the case for the return of regulation in the organization of urban bus services in developing countries. During the past three decades urban public transport policy has gone through several...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS3207 Дата подготовки документа: 1 февраля 2004 года Автор: Estache, Antonio, Gomez-Lobo, Andres
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Price caps, efficiency payoffs, and infrastructure contract renegotiation in Latin America (Английский)
Twenty years ago, as the United Kingdom was getting ready to launch the privatization of its public services, Professor Littlechild developed and operationalized the concept of price caps as a regulatory...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS3129 Дата подготовки документа: 31 августа 2003 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Guasch, Jose-Luis,Trujillo, Lou
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A primer on efficiency measurement for utilities and transport regulators : Una introduccion a las medidas de eficiencia para reguladores de servicios publicos y de transporte (Испанский)
This book is intended to help regulators learn about the tools needed to measure efficiency. It is based on lecture notes from courses the World Bank Institute offers in English, French and Spanish throughout...
Типу документа: Публикации Номер отчета: 26062 Дата подготовки документа: 1 августа 2003 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Coelli, Tim,Estache, Antonio,Perelman, Sergio,Tr
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An introduction to financial and economic modeling for utility regulators (Английский)
The most effective regulators in developing countries are following remarkably similar approaches. The main common element across "best practice" countries is the use of relatively simple quantitative...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS3001 Дата подготовки документа: 31 марта 2003 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Rodriguez Pardina, Martin,Rodri
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A primer on efficiency measurement for utilities and transport regulators (Английский)
This book is intended to help regulators learn about the tools needed to measure efficiency. It is based on lecture notes from courses the World Bank Institute offers in English, French and Spanish throughout...
Типу документа: Публикации Номер отчета: 26062 Дата подготовки документа: 28 февраля 2003 года Автор: Coelli, Tim,Estache, Antonio,Perelman, Sergio,Tr
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The case for international coordination of electricity regulation : evidence from the measurement of efficiency in South America (Английский)
A decade long experience shows that monitoring the performance of public and private monopolies in South America is proving to be the hard part of the reform process. The operators who control most of...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2907 Дата подготовки документа: 31 октября 2002 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Rossi, Martin A.,Ruzzier, Chris
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Sector organization, governance, and the inefficiency of African water utilities (Английский)
The authors analyze the determinants of the efficiency levels reached by twenty one African water utilities. They assess efficiency through the estimation of a production frontier for the sector in Africa...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2890 Дата подготовки документа: 30 сентября 2002 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Kouassi, Eugene
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Telecommunication reforms, access regulation, and Internet adoption in Latin America (Английский)
The authors review the stylized facts on regulatory reform in telecommunications and its effects on telecommunications development and Internet penetration in Latin America. Relying on data from the International...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2802 Дата подготовки документа: 31 марта 2002 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Manacorda, Marco,Valletti, Tomm
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Concession contract renegotiations : some efficiency versus equity dilemmas (Английский)
The authors analyze the possibility of tradeoffs between efficiency and equity as well as the possibility of distributional conflicts in the context of renegotiation of infrastructure contracts in developing...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2705 Дата подготовки документа: 30 ноября 2001 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Quesada, Lucia
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Processes, information, and accounting gaps in the regulation of Argentina's private railways (Английский)
Almost a decade after Argentina began privatizing its railways, resolution of conflicts between regulators, users, and operators continues to take longer, and to be more difficult, than expected. The authors...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2636 Дата подготовки документа: 31 июля 2001 года Автор: Campos-Mendez, Javier,Estache, Antonio,Trujillo,
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Technical efficiency gains from port reform : the potential for yardstick competition in Mexico (Английский)
The authors show how relatively standard methodologies can help to measure the efficiency gains from reforming the organization of port infrastructure, how those measures can be used to promote competition...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2637 Дата подготовки документа: 31 июля 2001 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Gonzalez, Marianela,Trujillo, L
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Labor redundancy, retraining, and outplacement during privatization : the experience of Brazil's Federal Railway (Английский)
One of the most complex challenges of infrastructure privatization is its impact on employment. Often (but not always) private operators' main approach to cost-cutting is labor reduction. Private operators...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2460 Дата подготовки документа: 31 октября 2000 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Schmitt de Azevedo, Jose Antoni
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Forecasting the demand for privatized transport - What economic regulators should know, and why (Английский)
Forecasting has long been a challenge, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. But the analytical instruments and data processing capabilities available through the latest technology, and software...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2446 Дата подготовки документа: 30 сентября 2000 года Автор: Trujillo, Lourdes,Quinet, Emile,Estache, Antonio
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Infrastructure restructuring and regulation - building a base for sustainable growth (Английский)
The link between economic growth, and better provision of infrastructure services may be unproven, but it is clear that reforms to make infrastructure services more competitive (where possible), and to...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2415 Дата подготовки документа: 31 августа 2000 года Автор: Alexander, Ian,Estache, Antonio
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Utility privatization and the needs of the poor in Latin America - Have we learned enough to get it right? (Английский)
Efforts to reform utilities can affect poor households in varied, often complex, ways, but it is by no means certain that such reform will hurt vulnerable households. Many myths have been perpetuated in...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2407 Дата подготовки документа: 31 августа 2000 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Gomez-Lobo, Andres,Leipziger, D
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The rise, the fall, and ... : the emerging recovery of project finance transport (Английский)
Recent developments in emerging financial markets have dramatically changed the appetite for (and terms of) transport infrastructure projects. As a result of defaults in Asia and Russia and devaluations...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2385 Дата подготовки документа: 31 июля 2000 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Strong, John
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Are cost models useful for telecoms regulators in developing countries? (Английский)
Worldwide privatization of the telecommunications industry, and the introduction of competition in the sector, together with the ever-increasing rate of technological advance in telecommunications, raise...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2384 Дата подготовки документа: 31 июля 2000 года Автор: Benitez, Daniel A.,Estache, Antonio,Kennet, D. M
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The long and winding path to private financing and regulation of toll roads (Английский)
Road transport has long been the dominant form of transport for freight and passenger movement throughout the world. Because most road projects require investments with long amortization periods and because...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2387 Дата подготовки документа: 30 июня 2000 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Romero, Manuel,Strong, John
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Argentina's transport privatization and re-regulation : ups and downs of a daring decade-long experience (Английский)
When Argentina initiated reform of its transport sector in 1989, it had few models to follow. It was the first Latin American country to privatize its intercity railroad, to explicitly organize intraport...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS2249 Дата подготовки документа: 30 ноября 1999 года Автор: Estache, Antonio,Carbajo, Jose C.,de Rus, Gines