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    Ownership and financing of infrastructure : historical perspectives

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    History provides many examples of movements both toward and away from private ownership and operation of infrastructure. In France, Great Britain, and the United States, shifts between local, intermediate, and national levels of government in ownership and regulation of some forms of infrastructure have also been common.
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    Saving in transition economies : the summary report

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Savings in transition economies have declined since independence, but something else has happened, too: Financial assets have shifted from bank deposits to alternative financial instruments, including foreign currency, "trust company" shares, and private loans.
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    Restructuring regulation of the rail industry for the public interest

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    To a greater extent than in the past, market forces should shape the prices and logistics of railroad services.
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    The rise of securities markets : what can government do?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Institutions interested in stimulating the development of securities markets in developing and transition economies should remember lessons from U.S. financial history: Put fiscal practices on a solid ground and then encourage disclosure of financial information to investors. One benefit of a good stock market is that a developing country will find it easier to sell bonds to foreign investors.
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    Universal banking and the financing of industrial development

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Developing countries designing financial systems should take a lesson from U.S.
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    Regulating telecommunications in developing countries : outcomes, incentives, and commitment

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The private sector invests heavily in infrastructure, makes reasonable returns, and improves productivity when regulators reduce the firm's information advantage, induce the firm (through pricing) to operate efficiently, and institute safeguarding mechanisms to protect the firm against expropriation of assets or quasirents.In response to the recent wave of privatizing and regulating monopolies
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    Workers in transition

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The outlook is bright for transition economies that are fully embracing market based reform, including appropriate, coherently applied labor policies. In other transition economies, a mix of paternalism and populism could produce partial, timid reform that makes them increasingly unproductive and corrupt.
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    Concessions of busways to the private sector : the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region experience

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    A pioneer project in Sao Paulo, Brazil (and in the world) demonstrates that private companies are ready to go deeper into public transport than they have gone before.
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    Different strategies of transition to a market economy : how do they work in practice?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    The government's ability to act fast and with determination is more important to radical economic reform than technical perfection in designing new policy instruments. Political consent to reform measures lasts a short time, so it should be used in full.
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    Bank regulation : the case of the missing model

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    The success of financial reform and the stability of financial systems depend partly on a regulatory framework that rewards prudent risk taking and is attuned to both institutions and the structure of the economy.

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