Many Asian, African and Eastern European countries freeing up their electricity markets are preserving an artificial monopoly over the wholesale trading of electricity even after the vertically integrated...
Unlike the poor in many developing countries, those in Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, are highly connected to network utilities. During the early 1990s, it became clear that without...
Private infrastructure: private activity fell by 30 percent in 1999; by Ada Karina Izaguirre and Geetha Rao. Private infrastructure: are the trends in low-income countries different? ; by Melissa Houskamp...
A scorecard for energy reform in developing countries; by Robert Bacon. Private participation in the transmission and distribution of natural gas - Recent trends; by Ada Karina Izaguirre. Developing gas...
A scorecard for energy reform in developing countries; by Robert Bacon. Private participation in the transmission and distribution of natural gas - Recent trends; by Ada Karina Izaguirre. Developing gas...
Reform of the natural gas industry in Ukraine started a year later than reform of the power industry. Because gas reform had no blueprint, its direction has remained ambiguous. That ambiguity is the result...
Restructuring Ukraine's coal industry has been even more difficult and politicized than reforming its electricity and gas industries. Coal reform has divided Parliament and the government into two camps...
Although reform of Ukraine's electricity sector is far from complete, the experience so far shows that ingrained attitudes are harder to change than written rules of the game. Moreover, the reemergence...
This report outlines a strategy that maximizes the impact of World Bank Group activities on development of the energy sector in the Europe and Central Asia region in the period 1998-2001. Four main objectives...
Development economists are increasingly concerned about the correct approach to economic analysis of projects. By looking for a compromise between theory (which identifies ideals) and practice (which deals...
This paper presents a framework for the analysis of rent seeking in water supply and case study of water vending in a large metropolitan area in a developing country such as in Jakarta, Indonesia. The...