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    Regulatory structure and risk and infrastructure firms : an international comparison

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    How does choice of regulatory regime affect the level of shareholder risk in regulated companies?
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    Strategies to develop mortgage markets in transition economies

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Factors that hinder the development of mortgage markets in transition economies and a proposed strategy to expedite their development. The transformation of the planned economies of central and eastern Europe to market economies has focused on economic stabilization and liberalization, privatization, and financial sector development.
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    Competition policy and the global trading system : a developing country perspective

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Certain factors can maximize the pressure on privatized infrastructure companies to be more efficient: the threat of bankruptcy, internal controls imposed by shareholders, and external disciplines (such as the threat of hostile takeover).The privatization of infrastructure companies is expected to bring about gains for customers by increasing the efficiency of the privatized company.
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    Bending the Rules: Discretionary Pollution Control in China

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    In China, environmental regulators play by the rules, but often bend them in ways that reflect important environmental and social concerns. Regulators give little or no slack to heavy dischargers. Old factories pay more, state owned factories pay higher rates, and big employers get a discount.Industry compliance with pollution regulations is far from universal, even in North America.
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    Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business: Region by Region Results from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    More than 3,600 entrepreneurs world-wide respond to a survey about problems with uncertainty in dealings with the state.Case studies and anecdotal evidence have suggested that uncertainty about policies, laws, and regulations has hampered development of the private sector in many developing countries.
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    Colombia's small and medium - size exporters and their support systems

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1994
    Small and medium sized Colombian firms have claimed an increasing share of total manufactured exports in the past decade and show signs of being competitive.
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    Aspects of Fiscal Performance in Some Transition Economies Under Fund-Supported Programs

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    The paper reviews some key medium- and longer-term fiscal problems confronting transition economies such as government solvency and the longer-run sustainability of the fiscal-financial-monetary program. Many transition economies, especially those in the early stages of transition, rely quite heavily on seigniorage revenues obtained through the issuance of base money.
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    What Role for the Private Sector?: A Pragmatic Approach to EU ACP Relations

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
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    Population and Development: Implications for the World Bank

    Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1994
    Report examines the changes in population dynamics and in the policy environment that have produced this consensus and explores their policy and operational implications for the World Bank's population work. The report has five core messages: Slowing population growth is still a high priority in the poorest countries.
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    Private Sector Participation in the Water and Sanitation Sector

    Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997
    This paper aims to provide an overview of the principles that should underlay private sector participation in the water and sanitation sub-sector to help inform DFID, together with other stakeholders, on the role and potential of Private Sector Participation (PSP) in its broadest sense and to provide suggestions on what approaches might be appropriate to DFID's programmes and those of others in lo

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