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Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform
Author: Antonio Estache
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780821350393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotation This book provides practical guidelines and options for infrastructure reform that result in access and affordability for the poor. It includes a new model for reform that consists of three main components - policies, regulation, and provision which when properly balanced minimize the risks associated with reform.
Consumer Participation and Pro-poor Regulation in Latin America
Utilities Reforms and Corruption in Developing Countries
Author: Antonio Estache
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper shows empirically that "privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the introduction of independent regulators in those sectors, have not always had the expected effects on access, affordability, or quality of services. It also shows that corruption leads to adjustments in the quantity, quality, and price of services consistent with the profit-maximizing behavior that one would expect from monopolies in the sector. The results suggest that privatization and the introduction of independent regulators have, at best, only partial effects on the consequences of corruption for access, affordability, and quality of utility services.
The State of State Reforms in Latin America
Author: Eduardo Lora
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2006-10-23
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 0821365762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a. political institutions and the state organization; b. fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c. public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies (financial, industrial, and infrastructure); and d. social sector institutions (pensions, social protection, and education). In each of these areas, the authors summarize the reform objectives, describe and measure their scope, assess the main outcomes, and identify the obstacles for implementation, especially those of an institutional nature.
Poverty, Economic Reform, and Income Distribution in Latin America
Author: Albert Berry
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781685856205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors address the causes and consequences of the recent worsening of income distribution in Latin America.
Reforming Infrastructure
Author: Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published:
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0821350706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.
The Market and the Masses in Latin America
Author: Andy Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-23
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1139479296
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What do ordinary citizens in developing countries think about free markets? Conventional wisdom views globalization as an imposition on unwilling workers in developing nations, concluding that the recent rise of the Latin American left constitutes a popular backlash against the market. In this book, Baker marshals public opinion data from eighteen Latin American countries to show that most of the region's citizens are enthusiastic about globalization because it has lowered the prices of many consumer goods and services while improving their variety and quality. Among recent free-market reforms, only privatization has caused pervasive discontent because it has raised prices for services like electricity and telecommunications. Citizens' sharp awareness of these consumer consequences informs Baker's argument that a political economy of consumption has replaced a previously dominant politics of labor and class in Latin America.
Utility Privatization and the Needs of the Poor in Latin America
Author: Antonio Estache
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Do Latin America's poor households lose from the privatization of infrastructure? How can policymakers minimize the risk of losses while promoting competition and private financing of infrastructure?
Regulating Water and Sanitation for the Poor
Author: Richard Franceys
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1849772312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
