Road funds, user charges, and taxes, by Ken Gwilliam and Zmarak Shalizi. Between the state and the market: can informal insurance patch the safety net? By Jonathan Morduch. Using household surveys to build...
The privatization of infrastructure should lead to the development of new infrastructure, improvements in the operation of existing infrastructure, and a reduction in budgetary subsidies. Whether countries...
The recent inauguration of a new administration led by President Cubas presents an opportunity to activate economic growth by implementing policies that increase economic efficiency and attract private...
The recent inauguration of a new administration led by President Cubas presents an opportunity to activate economic growth by implementing policies that increase economic efficiency and attract private...
This economic policy note presents the dilemma between private infrastructure and public risk. The note examines the fact that, increasingly, governments in many developing countries are relying on the...
Cofinanced public extension in Nicaragua. Reconsidering agricultural extension. Globalization and inequality: past and present. The policymaking uses of multitopic household survey data: a primer. Formal...
Franchising and privatization; by Antony W. Dnes. Tradable property rights to water; by Mateen Thobani. Privatization through broad-based ownership strategies; by Stuart Bell. Bettering banking: privatize...
In most countries, water is still regarded as public property. Despite growing water scarcity and the high costs of hydraulic infrastructure, water is typically underpriced and used wastefully. Some water-scarce...
Is privatization necessary? By John Nellis. The privatization experience of Latin America, by Mateen Thobani. Privatization by capitalization- a popular participation recipe for cash-starved SOEs in Bolivia...
Between 1985 and 1992, governments in the Latin American and Caribbean region privatized more than 2,000 publicly owned enterprises including banks, ports, airlines, highways, retail shops, public utilities...
This paper reviews the trade policy reforms recommended in the Bank's Structural Adjustment Loans (SALs), evaluates the implementation of these policies and assesses their impact on SAL objectives for...
The purpose of this paper is to suggest agricultural pricing and trade policies to improve economic efficiency. It was found that while the import restrictions resulted in high prices giving incentives...
The paper analyzes in detail one of the ways to reduce the problem of recurrent expenditure in social sector services - that of raising user charges. When low user charges and limits on the government...
An examination of the structure and workings of the markets for each of the four major crops suggests changes in market structure and/or in government pricing policy that would result in increased welfare...
Estimating the demand for urban passenger travel is very useful in transport planning. This study estimates a joint model of choice for both auto ownership and travel mode to work in Karachi, Pakistan...