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  • Electricity reforms : what some countries did right and others can do better (anglais)

    Since 1982 more than half the world's countries have reformed their electricity sectors. Implemented correctly, the standard reform model, with competition, unbundling, and effective regulation, can lead...

    Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 73638 Date du document: 1 octobre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kessides,Ioannis N.

  • Small modular reactors for enhancing energy security in developing countries (anglais)

    In recent years, small modular reactors (SMRs) have been attracting considerable attention around the world. SMR designs incorporate innovative approaches to achieve simplicity, modularity and speed of...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 102481 Date du document: 14 août 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Kuznetsov,Vladimir

  • Eurasian cities : new realities along the silk road (anglais)

    Eurasian cities, unique in the global spatial landscape, were part of the world's largest experiment in urban development. The challenges they now face because of their history offer valuable lessons to...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 72804 Date du document: 9 juillet 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Coulibaly,Souleymane,Deichmann,Uwe Klaus,Dillinger,William R.,Ionescu-Heroiu,Marcel,Kessides,Ioannis N.,Kunaka,Charles,Saslavsky,Daniel Mario

  • Regionalizing infrastructure for deepening market integration: the case of East Africa (anglais)

    The East African Community has long recognized that regional economic integration can yield significant welfare gains to its member states. To that end, the community has been making steady progress towards...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6113 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Benjamin,Nancy Claire


  • Competition and innovation-driven inclusive growth (anglais)

    The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and facilitating it, and whether it is inclusive. In a sample of more than 26,000 manufacturing...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5852 Date du document: 1 octobre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dutz,Mark Andrew,Kessides,Ioannis N.,O'Connell, Stephen,Willig,Robert D.


  • Sunk costs, market contestability, and the size distribution of firms (anglais)

    This paper offers a new economic explanation for the observed inter-industry differences in the size distribution of firms. The empirical estimates--based on three temporal (1982, 1987, and 1992) cross-sections...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5540 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Tang, Li

  • Nuclear power and sustainable energy policy : promises and perils (anglais)

    The challenges and opportunities of nuclear power in meeting the projected large absolute increase in energy demand, especially electricity, throughout the industrialized and developing world, while helping...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 76807 Date du document: 1 août 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kessides,Ioannis N.

  • The World Bank research observer 25 (2) (anglais)

    This issue includes the following : Ideas and innovation in East Asia, by Milan Brahmghatt and Albert Hu. Impact assessments in finance and private sector development : what have we learned and what should...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 73277 Date du document: 1 août 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brahmghatt, Milan,Gill,Indermit S.,Goh, Chor-Ching,Hu, Albert,Kessides,Ioannis N.,Lecocq,Franck Michel,Mckenzie,David J.,Nauges,Celine,Shalizi,Zmarak,Whittington,Dale

  • Regionalizing telecommunications reform in West Africa (anglais)

    In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition that significant welfare gains could be realized through deep forms of regional integration which entail harmonization of legal, regulatory and...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5126 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Noll,Roger G.,Benjamin,Nancy Claire

  • Toward defining and measuring the affordability of public utility services (anglais)

    This paper reviews the progress made in the literature toward defining and measuring the affordability of utilities. It highlights the relative merits of alternate affordability metrics; the practical...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4915 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Miniaci,Raffaele,Scarpa,Carlo,Valbonesi,Paola

  • Current and forthcoming issues in the South African electricity sector (anglais)

    One of the contentious issues in electricity reform is whether there are significant gains from restructuring systems that are moderately well run. South Africa's electricity system is a case in point...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4197 Date du document: 1 avril 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bogetic,Zeljko,Kessides,Ioannis N.,Maurer,Luiz T. A.

  • The pricing dynamics of utilities with underdeveloped networks (anglais)

    This paper uses an analytically tractable intertemporal framework for analyzing the dynamic pricing of a utility with an underdeveloped network (a typical case in most developing countries) facing a competitive...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4198 Date du document: 1 avril 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chisari,Omar Osvaldo,Kessides,Ioannis N.

  • The World Bank research observer 20 (1) (anglais)

    This issue includes the following: Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor: understanding political incentives for providing public services by Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani; Evaluating the impact...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 38879 Date du document: 21 mars 2005 Mode de publication: Auteur: Baffes,John,Das,Jishnu,Do,Quy-Toan,Keefer,Philip E.,Kessides,Ioannis N.,Khemani,Stuti,Ozler,Berk,Rawlings,Laura B.,Rubio, Gloria M.

  • Infrastructure privatization and regulation : promises and perils (anglais)

    Infrastructure is crucial for generating growth, alleviating poverty, and increasing international competitiveness. For much of the twentieth century and in most countries, the network utilities that delivered...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 76747 Date du document: 1 mars 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kessides,Ioannis N.

  • Reforming infrastructure - privatization, regulation; and competition (anglais)

    Infrastructure industries and services are crucial for generating economic growth, alleviating poverty, and increasing international competitiveness. Safe water is essential for life, and health. Reliable...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 28985 Date du document: 1 janvier 2004 Mode de publication: Auteur: Kessides,Ioannis N.



  • Restructuring regulation of the railroad industry (anglais)

    Throughout the world, the rail industry has been one of the most heavily regulated sectors. The public utility paradigm of government regulation has failed to handle the central regulatory problem - the...

    Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 16918 Date du document: 31 octobre 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Willig,Robert D.