Second-Generation Reforms in Infrastructure Services

C. Federico Basañes, Daniel Artana, Fernando Navajas, Santiago Urbiztondo, Eduardo Saavedra, Raimundo Soto, Juan Benavides, Israel Fainboim Yaker, Juan A. Legisa, Janusz A. Ordover, Robert Willig, Jean-Jacques Laffont, Carlos Díaz Alvarado, Sebastián Auguste, Jaime Millán, Paulina Beato and Carmen Fuente

No 310 in IDB Publications (Books) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: During the past two decades, Latin American countries have made pioneering efforts in reforming infrastructure services. The "first generation of reforms" encompassed widespread privatization, deregulation and restructuring of the provision of energy, water, transport and telecommunications services. Second-Generation Reforms in Infrastructure Services evaluates the current challenges, leading to the consolidation of the initial reforms. This volume deals with post-privatization dispute settlement mechanisms, access arrangements in network industries, and inroads to effective competition in the reformed industries. The authors evaluate a set of contractual adjustments resulting from renegotiations and disputes that have taken place since the beginning of the reform process. In an effort to promote competition in the provision of public services, the authors suggest some practical rules for pricing access in network industries. The book presents a dynamic, global vision of second-generation reforms underway in energy markets around the world.

Keywords: privatization; deregulation; public utilities; power sector; consumer welfare; transition economies; liberalization; pricing access; pricing schemes; tariffs; subsidies; gas sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
ISBN: 9781931003018
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