Academics pay little attention to international bank lending, focusing instead on rapidly growing market segments such as the international bond market and derivative credit instruments. The authors argue...
A project finance structure allows water projects with attractive cash flows and risk profiles to secure long-term private capital. But even in industrial countries the credit strength of off-taking municipal...
Using a specially designed survey of Japanese firms planning investments in Asia, the authors emphasize the importance of privately held information in making foreign investment decisions. Information...
Using a specially designed survey, the authors identify the characteristics of Japanese firms likely to invest world wide and in key Asian countries and country characteristics associated with Japanese...
Partial government guarantees of private financing can be an effective tool for maintaining public-private partnerships. Loan guarantees that cover some or all of the risk of repayment are frequently used...
Advanced infrastructure, as addressed in this article, refers to a spectrum of transportation and communications systems and services enhanced by using information technology and delivered by innovative...
This paper explores the links between environmental regulation and the creation and spread of pollution control technologies. Time patterns in environmental expenditure and patenting for different countries...
This paper is about policy reform in the telecommunications sector, where not only the physical network elements, but also the institutional elements are interdependent. Developing countries are in transition...
The authors develop comparative indices of environmental policy and performance for 31 countries using a quantified analysis of reports prepared for the United Nations Conference on Environmental and Development...
Price and income elasticities estimated from a country's export demand function are used both to predict and to prescribe effective export strategies. But the focus on elasticities has led to the neglect...
Competition in a period of rapid technological change is the subject of this report. The steel mill industry is of considerable interest to less developed countries and was chosen to investigate whether...
The purpose of this paper is to trace the transitional process in the two economies and indicate how domestic institutional structures lead to very different response mechanisms in dealing with changing...