Documents et rapports
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Dominican Republic - Country Economic Memorandum : Sustaining Economic Growth (anglais)
The Dominican Republic’s growth model has led to exceptional economic expansion, far exceeding the LAC average over the past two decades, but it is reaching its limits due to slow productivity growth...
Type de document: Mémorandum économique sur un pays Numéro du rapport: 182286 Date du document: 15 mai 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kerf,Michel,Valerio,Alexandria
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Pacific Islands - Regional partnership framework : FY17-FY21 (anglais)
This Regional Partnership Framework (RPF) outlines the World Bank Group (WBG) strategic program for nine Pacific island countries (PIC9): Kiribati, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Federated...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 120479 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Melgaard,Lasse,Barbour,Paul Antony,Drees-Gross,Franz R.,Kerf,Michel,Sansbury,Jane Distelhorst
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Advance funding for Infrastructure PPPs : cautions from two road projects in Peru (anglais)
Public private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure projects require substantial initial funding that private operators in developing countries can rarely obtain in the domestic market. In 2005, in the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 96251 Date du document: 1 mars 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kerf,Michel
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Protecting electricity retailers against price volatility : the Electricity Tariff Equalization Fund in New South Wales (anglais)
Most commentators agree that the benefits of competitive electricity markets will materialize only if wholesale prices are allowed to fluctuate more or less freely so as to provide adequate pricing signals...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44399 Date du document: 1 mai 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Groom,Eric Ian,Kerf,Michel
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Revival of private participation in developing country infrastructure (anglais)
Investment in private participation in infrastructure projects in developing countries in 2004 and 2005 increased sharply. Meanwhile, the distribution of investment across sectors and regions, and the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 39135 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre,Kerf,Michel
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Regualtion and competition : how antitrust and sector regulation affect telecom competition : Regulation and competition : how antitrust and sector regulation affect telecom competition (anglais)
Countries with fully liberalized telecommunications markets have adopted different mixes of antitrust and sector-specific regulatory instruments. Does the balance between the two approaches matter for...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 32845 Date du document: 1 juin 2005 Auteur: Geradin,Damien,Kerf,Michel,Neto,Maria Isabel A. S.
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Interconnection disputes : antitrust or sector regulation and the case of New Zealand (anglais)
Full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying largely on general antitrust rules and institutions for economic regulation. But at least for a time after liberalization, sector-specific...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 32844 Date du document: 1 juin 2005 Auteur: Geradin,Damien,Kerf,Michel,Neto,Maria Isabel A. S.
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Controlling market power : balancing antitrust and sector regulation in telecoms (anglais)
Among the countries fully liberalizing their telecommunicationssector, some have chosen to rely mainly on sector-specific rules,often applied by sector-specific institutions, while others havedepended...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 32843 Date du document: 1 juin 2005 Auteur: Kerf,Michel,Neto,Maria Isabel A. S.,Geradim, Damien
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Telecom regulators : converging trends ? (anglais)
Officials in developing countries with legal and political systems of continental European origin often argue that the model of independent regulatory agencies for utilities is appropriate only for Anglo-Saxon...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 22407 Date du document: 31 mai 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kerf,Michel,Schiffler,Manuel,Torres,Clemencia
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Do state holding companies facilitate private participation in the water sector? evidence from Cote d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Guinea, and Senegal (anglais)
When the Gambia, Guinea, and Senegal decided to involve the private sector in the provision of water services, they also established state holding companies - state-owned entities with exclusive or partial...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2513 Date du document: 31 décembre 2000 Auteur: Kerf,Michel
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Public policy for the private sector (anglais)
Protecting minority shareholders in closely held firms, by Chad Leechor. Reviving the market for corporate control, by Chad Leechor. Innovations in bankruptcy - prioritizing creditors using option markets...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 19691 Date du document: 30 septembre 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Leechor,Chad,Claessens, Stijn,Djankov,Simeon,Larry H.P. Lang,Rowat,Malcolm D.,Brook Cowen, Penelope,Tynan,Nicola Caroline,Smith,Peter L.,Wellenius,Bjorn,Rossotto,Carlo Maria,Kerf,Michel,Rohlfs, Jeffrey,Sommer,Dirk,Abdala,Manuel Angel,Chambouleyron, Andres
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Privatizing Africa's infrastructure : promise and challenge (anglais)
This paper examines the promise and challenge of infrastructure privatization in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on power, telecommunications, water, rail, ports and airports. The paper places...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WTP337 Date du document: 30 septembre 1996 Auteur: Kerf,Michel,Smith,Warrick P.
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Concessions : the way to privatize infrastructure sector monopolies (anglais)
Concession-type arrangements are well suited for privatizing sectors with monopolistic characteristics. Under this approach, the state (or municipality or other public entity) delegates to the private...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 16919 Date du document: 31 octobre 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Guislain,Pierre,Kerf,Michel