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- Developing Market Infrastructure for Farming Entities
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May 15, 2007 09:51
The goal of this paper is to provide working recommendations for improving the development of market infrastructure servicing farms.
- Independent Regulation in Infrastructure Sectors: The Case for Regulating Local Transportation Markets in Belarus
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May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper is dedicated to the problem of independent regulation in infrastructure sectors. The paper argues that independent regulators should be established to regulate local passenger transportation markets.
- Information society - 2000, Issue 1
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This scientific-analytical journal is a Russian publication that systematically and step by step considers the government policy in this field. This issue has the following table of content:
- Technologies of information society
- Social, political and legal aspects of transition to information society in Russian
- Partnership and cooperation as a driving force for the development of information society
- Cultural diversity and multilingual in information society
- New standards of life quality
- An analytical framework for evaluating transition impact of infrastructure projects
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May 16, 2007 14:41
This paper provides a non-technical summary of a framework for evaluating the transition impact (social returns) of any infrastructure investment that reduces transaction costs and thereby intensifies product market competition. The framework applies both to physical and institutional infrastructure.
- Restructuring infrastructure in transition economies
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November 23, 2007 12:36
The purpose of this paper is to characterise the infrastructure restructuring challenge in the transition economies and to examine carefully the government policies that can promote restructuring effectively.
- Services policy reform and economic growth in transition economies, 1990-2004
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November 23, 2007 12:56
This paper analyzes the impact of service sector policy reforms on the growth performance of 24 transition economies. There are large differences in economic performance across these transition economies. Our primary objective is to explore to what extent services-related policies help explain these differences.
- Infrastructure services in developing countries : access, quality, costs and policy reform
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November 23, 2007 17:15
The authors review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing the investment needs and the emerging policy issues. While their assessment is seriously constrained by data gaps, they provide useful insights on the main challenges ahead, emphasizing that, in addition to the widely discussed access problems, the poorest also face major affordability and service quality issues which were not well addressed by the reforms of the 1990s.
- Financing infrastructure in developing countries : lessons from the railway age
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November 26, 2007 16:58
In recent years suggestions for reforming the provision and financing of infrastructure services in developing countries have focused on private participation. This alternative to public financing is seen as a way both to minimize the inefficiencies of public administration and to avoid the need for external borrowing. If fact, for much of the nineteenth century, infrastructure projects were privately financed and built. This approach, however, did not obviate the need for government intervention and foreign capital. Because of the difficulties of assessing projects, investors were reluctant to commit their funds, and governments turned to subsidies and loan guarantees to encourage investment. Often, however, government intervention only replaced one set of problems with another. Investors with government-guaranteed loans had no incentive to monitor the firm's performance - a limitation that led to the diversion of funds and frustrated the public interest. This article draws out the implications of this experience for policymakers in developing countries today.
- Landlockedness, infrastructure and trade : new estimates for central Asian countries
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November 26, 2007 17:21
This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade using a panel gravity equation estimated on a large sample of countries (167 countries over 1992-2004). The panel structure of the dataset makes it possible to control for country-pair specific effects (as opposed to the usual importer and exporter effects) that would otherwise be captured by the coefficients of time-invariant variables such as distance or landlockness.
- Small-scale private service providers of water supply and electricity : a review of incidence, structure, pricing, and operating characteristics
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November 26, 2007 17:49
This paper summarizes the key findings and conclusions of a literature review of small-scale private service providers (SPSPs) of water supply and electricity conducted over a six-month period in 2003. It draws on more than 400 documents-including journals, articles, reports, case studies and project reports-which have been disaggregated and referenced in a publicly available database.
- Infrastructure services in developing countries : access, quality, costs and policy reform
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December 3, 2007 16:48
The authors review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing the investment needs and the emerging policy issues. While their assessment is seriously constrained by data gaps, they provide useful insights on the main challenges ahead, emphasizing that, in addition to the widely discussed access problems, the poorest also face major affordability and service quality issues which were not well addressed by the reforms of the 1990s.
- Is debt replacing equity in regulated privatized infrastructure in developing countries?
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December 3, 2007 17:00
The main purpose of this paper is to describe the evolution of the financing structure of regulated privatized utilities and transport companies. To do so, the authors rely on a sample of 121 utilities distributed over 16 countries, and 23 transport infrastructure operators and 23 transport services operators distributed over 23 countries. They show that leverage rates vary significantly across sectors, with the highest rates observed in transport and the lowest in water.
- Renewable Energy Resources: the Past, Present and Future
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January 18, 2008 12:16
This background paper describes some of the existing concepts related to the energy policy of a country and analyzes different RES advantages and limitations. As well the paper outlines some EU experiences of using and stimulation renewables.
- Independent Regulation in Infrastructure Sectors: The Case for Regulating Local Transportation Markets in Belarus
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January 18, 2008 14:23
This paper is dedicated to the problem of independent regulation in infrastructure sectors. It starts out with a general part presenting some of the common arguments for independent regulation. It then turns to describe some current practices in England and Ukraine, and delineates the current situation on the local passenger transportation markets in Belarus. The paper argues that independent regulators should be established to regulate these markets.
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