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11569: Telecommunications Reform: How to Succeed

Björn Wellenius

11568: Utility Regulators: Decisionmaking Structures, Resources, and Start-Up Strategy

Warrick Smith

11567: Microfinance as a Regular Commercial Banking Product

Joselito S. Gallardo, Bikki K. Randhawa and Orlando J. Sacay

11566: Utility Regulation: A Critical Path for Revising Price Controls

Richard Green

11565: Has Price Cap Regulation of U.K. Utilities Been a Success?

Richard Green

11564: How Competition Delivers Positive Results in Transport: A Case Study

Ginés de Rus

11563: Global Trend to Railway Concessions Delivering Positive Results

Louis S. Thompson and Karim-Jacques Budin

11562: The Benefits of Separating Rail Infrastructure from Operations

Louis S. Thompson

11561: Use of Public Consultation in the Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project

Kathryn McPhail and Christian Callieri

11560: Natural Gas Markets in the U.K.: Competition, Industry Structure, and Market Power of the Incumbent

Andrej Juris

11559: Competition in the Natural Gas Industry: The Emergence of Spot, Financial, and Pipeline Capacity Markets

Andrej Juris

11558: What Effect Will East Asia's Crisis Have on Developing Countries?

Uri Dadush, Robert Lynn, Mick Riordan, Dipak Dasgupta and Ronald Johannes

11557: Development of Competitive Natural Gas Markets in the United States

Andrej Juris

11556: Reforming the Russian Electricity Sector

Margaret Wilson

11555: Tapping International Equity Markets Through Depository Receipts: Lessons from the Telecoms Sector

Mohammad A. Mustafa and Carsten Fink

11554: Lessons in Designing Safety Nets

Swaminathan S.A. Aiyar, K. Sarwar Lateef and Kalanidhi Subbarao

11553: Trade and the East Asian Crisis

Bernard Hoekman and Will Martin

11552: Mitigating Risks in Power Reform: A New World Bank Lending Approach - Power Sector Reform in the Indian State of Haryana

Djamal Mostefai

11551: Social Assessment Builds a Project for People and Parks in Argentina

World Bank

11550: Social Assessment Helps Sharpen Sector Reforms in Armenia

World Bank

11549: Beneficiary Assessment for Monitoring: The Zambia Social Recovery Project

World Bank

11548: Social Assessment in Tajikistan Brings Rural Realities to Urban Decisionmakers

World Bank

11547: Developing International Power Markets in East Asia

Enrique Crousillat

11546: International Gas Trade: The Bolivia-Brazil Gas Pipeline

Peter L. Law and Nelson de Franco

11545: Corruption and Development

Cheryl W. Gray and Daniel Kaufman

11544: Using Disaggregated Poverty Maps to Plan Sectoral Investments

Jesko Hentschel and Peter Lanjouw

11543: Promoting Regional Power Trade: The Southern African Power Pool

Donal T. O'Leary, Jean-Pierre Charpentier and Diane Minogue

11542: Can Backward Subnational Regions Catch Up with Advanced Ones?

Peter Fallon and Camille Lampart

11541: The East Asian Financial Crisis: Fallout for Private Power Projects

R. David Gray, John Schuster and Christian Schuster

11540: Private Participation in the Water and Sewerage Sector: Recent Trends

Gisele Silva, Nicola Tynan and Yesim Yilmaz

11539: Contingent Liabilities for Infrastructure Projects: Implementing a Risk Management Framework for Governments

Christopher M. Lewis and Ashoka Mody

11538: Risk Management Systems for Contingent Infrastructure Liabilities: Applications to Improve Contract Design and Monitoring

Christopher M. Lewis and Ashoka Mody

11537: Why Performance Contracts for State-Owned Enterprises Haven't Worked

Mary Shirley

11536: Meaningful Consultation in Environmental Assessments

Shelton H. Davis and Nightingale Rukuba-Ngaiza

11535: Financing Water and Sanitation Projects: The Unique Risks

David Haarmeyer and Ashoka Mody

11534: Pooling Water Projects to Move Beyond Project Finance

David Haarmeyer and Ashoka Mody

11533: Utility Regulators: Supporting Nascent Institutions in the Developing World

Philip Gray

11532: Private Participation in the Electricity Sector: Recent Trends

Ada Karina Izaguirre

11531: Corporate Finance Lessons from the East Asian Crisis

Michael Pomerleano

11530: New Frontiers in Diagnosing and Combating Corruption

Daniel Kaufmann, Sanjay Pradhan and Randi Ryterman

11529: Privatization in Developing Countries: An Analysis of the Performance of Newly Privatized Firms

Narjess Boubakri and Jean-Claude Cosset

11528: World Bank Guarantees for Oil and Gas Projects

Scott Sinclair

11527: Bidding for Concessions: The Impact of Contract Design

Michael Klein

11526: Infrastructure Concessions: To Auction or Not to Auction?

Michael Klein

11525: Designing Auctions for Concessions: Guessing the Right Value to Bid and the Winner's Curse

Michael Klein

11524: Rebidding for Concessions

Michael Klein

11523: Using Microcredit to Advance Women

Shahidur Khandker

11522: Contingent Liabilities: A Threat to Fiscal Stability

Hana Polackova

11521: Private Infrastructure, Public Risk

Mateen Thobani

11520: Management Contracts and Water Utilities: The Case of Monagas State in Venezuela

Manuel Mariño, John Stein and Fransico Wulff

11519: Export Processing Zones

Dorsati Madani

11518: Social Assessment Helps Ensure Benefits of Agricultural Privatization for Kazakh Farmers

Stan Peabody and Deborah Youssef

11517: Social Assessment Prioritizes Urban Water and Wastewater Problems in Russia

Ayse Kudat, Bulent Ozbilgin and Sergey Artobolevskiy

11516: Social Assessment Identifies Land Management Concerns in Cote d'Ivoire

Cyprian Fisiy

11515: Social Assessment Identifies Urban Transport Priorities in the Kyrgyz Republic

Ayse Kudat, Bulent Ozbilgin and Anara Tabyshalieva

11514: Putting People's Perspectives into Environmental Action in Caspian Sea Communities

Ayse Kudat, Bulent Ozbilgin and Ahmed Musayev

11513: The Impact of IPPs in Developing Countries: Out of the Crisis and into the Future

Yves Albouy and Reda Bousba

11512: Preemptive Rights and Privatization

Olivier Frémond and John Nellis

11511: Improving Water Services Through Competition

Michael Webb and David Ehrhardt

11510: Competition in Water and Sanitation: The Role of Small-Scale Entrepreneurs

Tova Maria Solo

11509: Port Privatization and Competition in Colombia

Juan Gaviria

11508: Electricity Reform in Ukraine: The Impact of Weak Goverance and Budget Crises

Laszlo Lovei

11507: Gas Reform in Ukraine: Monopolies, Markets, and Corruption

Laszlo Lovei

11506: Coal Industry Restructuring in Ukraine: The Politics of Coal Mining and Budget Crises

Laszlo Lovei

11505: Labor Redundancies and Privatization

Sunita Kikeri

11504: Gender and Transport: A Rationale for Action

Michael Bamberger, Jerry Lebo, Kenneth Gwilliam and Colin Gannon

11503: Protecting the Poor in a Crisis - and Beyond

Martin Ravallion

11502: Using Markets to Deal with Commodity Price Volatility: What Can Governments and Donors Do to Develop Markets that Ameliorate Commodity Price Volatility?

Panos Varangis and Donald Larson

11501: Decentralizing Borrowing Powers

Junaid Ahmad

11500: Corporate Distress in East Asia: The Effect of Currency and Interest Rate Shocks

Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov and Giovanni Ferri

11499: Developing Countries and Accounting Rates Reform: A Technological and Regulatory El Niño?

Carlos A. Primo Braga, Emmanuel Forestier and Peter A. Stern

11498: International Power Trade: The Nordic Power Pool

Lennart Carlsson

11497: Reducing Vulnerability to Speculative Attacks

Sara Calvo

11496: Does Debt Management Matter? YES

Miguel A. Kiguel

11495: Managing Terms of Trade Volatility

Ricardo Hausmann

11494: Trends and Markets in Liquefied Natural Gas

Rob Shepherd

11493: The 1996-97 Gas Price Review in Argentina

Andres Gomez-Labo and Vivien Foster

11492: Public Expenditure Reviews: Progress and Potential

Vinaya Swaroop

11491: Using an Ombudsman to Oversee Public Officials

D.J. Galligan and Nick Manning

11490: Mitigating Currency Convertibility Risks in High-Risk Countries: A New IDA Lending Approach

Karen Rasmussen

11489: Regulation in New Natural Gas Markets: The Northern Ireland Experience

Peter Lehmann

11488: Management Contracts in Water and Sanitation: Gaza's Experience

Jamal Saghir, Elizabeth Sherwood and Andrew Macoun

11487: A Scorecard for Energy Reform in Developing Countries

Robert Bacon

11486: Rail and Subway Concessions in Rio de Janeiro

Jorge M. Rebelo

11485: Competition in Mobile Telecoms

Michel Kerf, Carlo Maria Rossotto and Jeffrey Rohlfs

11484: Expanding Water and Sanitation Services to Low-Income Households: the Case of the La Paz-El Alto Concession

Kristin Komives and Penelope J. Brook Cowen

11483: Private Participation in the Transmission and Distribution of Natural Gas: Recent Trends

Ada Karina Izaguirre

11482: Looking for More from Adjustment: Africa's Experience

Elizabeth Pape

11481: Using Surveys for Public Sector Reform

Ritva Reinikka

11480: Global Development Finance Projects Slow Growth for 1999

Swaminathan S. Aiyar and Milan Brahmbhatt

11479: Sanliurfa and Harran Plains On-Farm and Village Development Project

Ayse Kudat

11478: Checks and Balances in Utility Regulation The U.K. Experience

Richard Green

11477: Fostering Institutions to Contain Corruption

World Bank

11476: Assessing Borrower Ownership Using Reform Readiness Analysis

Daniel Morrow

11475: Fostering Institutions to Contain Corruption

Larry Diamond

11474: Reforming Insolvency Systems in Latin America

Malcolm Rowat

11473: Reaching the Urban Poor with Private Infrastructure

Penelope Brook Cowen and Nicola Tynan

11472: Private Participation in the Rail Sector: Recent Trends

Nicola Tynan

11471: Protecting Minority Shareholders in Closely Held Firms

Chad Leechor

11470: Mitigating Regulatory Risk in Telecommunications

Peter L. Smith and Bjorn Wellenius