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11644: Private Power Financing: From Project Finance to Corporate Finance

Karl G. Jechoutek and Ranjit Lamech

11643: The Macedonian Gambit: Enterprise cum Bank Restructuring

Joseph Pernia and S. Ramachandran

11642: A Pre-export Guarantee Facility in Moldova: Mitigating Political Risk in Transition

Onno Rühl and Alfred Watkins

11641: End of the Line for the Local Loop Monopoly? Technology, Competition, and Investment in Telecom Networks

Peter Smith

11640: Finding Real Owners: Lessons from Estonia's Privatization Program

John Nellis

11639: Regulating Telecommunications: Lessons from U.S. Price Cap Experience

Jeffrey H. Rohlfs

11638: Reflections from the Participation Sourcebook

World Bank

11637: Involving Farmers: Social Assessment in the Estonia Agriculture Project

World Bank

11636: Emerging Markets and Financial Volatility-Beyond Mexico

Gary L. Perlin

11635: Mitigating Commercial Risks in Project Finance

World Bank

11634: Are Bank Interest Rate Spreads Too High? A Simple Model for Decomposing Spreads

Fernando Montes-Negret and Luca Papi

11633: The Privatization Dividend: A Worldwide Analysis of the Financial and Operating Performance of Newly Privatized Firms

William L. Megginson, Robert C. Nash and Matthias van Randenborgh

11632: Pension Funds and Capital Markets: Investment Regulation, Financial Innovation, and Governance

Dimitri Vittas

11631: Designing Mandatory Pension Schemes: Some Lessons from Argentina, Chile, Malaysia, and Singapore

Dimitri Vittas

11630: Franchising Telecom Service Shops: Meeting Demand from Nonsubscribers in Indonesia

Rajesh Pradhan and Peter Smith

11629: The Political Economy of Corruption: Causes and Consequences

Susan Rose-Ackerman

11628: The Net, Cybermoney, and Credit Risks: New Technologiy, and Payment System Risks

Cathy E. Minehan

11627: Redesigning the State to Fight Corruption: Transparency, Competition and Privatization

Susan Rose-Ackerman

11626: Regulating Water Companies

Michael Klein and Timothy Irwin

11625: The Guinea Water Lease: Five Years On - Lessons in Private Sector Participation

Penelope J. Brook Cowen

11624: Mitigating Project Risks World Bank: Support for Government Guarantees

Philippe Benoit

11623: Sydney's Water-A Suitable Case for Private Treatment?

Ross Chapman and Sandy Cuthbertson

11622: Money Laundering and International Efforts to Fight It

David Scott

11621: Privatizing Airports-Options and Case Studies

Ellis J. Juan

11620: Private Infrastructure-A Bibliography: A Guide to World Bank Publications on Private Participation in Infrastructure

Omer Karasapan

11619: The Dynamics of Independent Power: IPPs Seed Top-to-Bottom Reform

Elliot Roseman and Anil Malhotra

11618: The England and Wales Electricity Model: Option or Warning for Developing Countries?

John E. Besant-Jones

11617: Reshaping Power Markets-Lessons from Chile and Argentina

R. Peter Lalor and Hernán García

11616: Participation and Local Government

World Bank

11615: Kenya: Participatory Poverty Assessment

World Bank

11614: Reinventing Government in New Zealand: How Core Government Functions Benefited from Market-Type Measurement

Tony Dale and Ian Ball

11613: Revitalizing Low-Income Public Housing Through Community Participation in the UK

World Bank

11612: Railway Concessions: Heading Down the Right Track in Argentina

José Carbajo and Antonio Estache

11611: Venture Capital Funds in Emerging Markets: Lessons from IFC's Investments

Teresa Barger, Laurence Carter and Irving Kuczynski

11610: Regulating Water Concessions: Lessons from the Buenos Aires concession

Claude Crampes and Antonio Estache

11609: Regulatory Lessons from Argentina's Power Concessions

Antonio Estache and Martin Rodriguez-Pardina

11608: Leasing in Emerging Markets: A Potent Instrument for Financing Small Business?

Teresa Barger, Laurence Carter and Irving Kuczynski

11607: Portfolio Investment Funds: Assessing the Impact on Emerging Markets

Teresa Barger, Laurence Carter and Irving Kuczynski

11606: Regulating Banks through Public Disclosure-The Case of New Zealand

Peter Nicholl

11605: Transaction Costs in Private Infrastructure Projects - Are They Too High?

Michael Klein, Jae So and Ben Shin

11604: Privatizing Infrastructure: Capital Market Pressures and Management Incentives

Ian Alexander and Timothy Irwin

11603: Competition in Telecoms-Implications for Universal Service and Employment

Ben A. Petrazzini

11602: Regulating Market Risk in Banks: The Options

Constantinos Stephanou

11601: Designing Toll Road Concessions: Lessons from Argentina

Antonio Estache and Jose Carbajo

11600: Competing Private Ports: Lessons from Argentina

Antonio Estache and Jose Carbajo

11599: Getting the Private Sector Involved in Water: What to Do in the Poorest of Countries?

Penelope J. Brook Cowen

11598: Testing the Waters: A Phased Approach to a Water Concession in Trinidad and Tobago

Helen Nankani

11597: Competition in Network Industries: Where and How to Introduce It

Michael Klein and Philip Gray

11596: The World Bank Group's Financial Instruments for Infrastructure

Philippe Benoit

11595: The Real Possibility of Competitive Generation Markets in Hydro Systems: The Case of Brazil

Antonio Estache and Martin Rodriguez-Pardina

11594: Price Structures, Cross-Subsidies, and Competition in Infrastructure

Timothy Irwin

11593: Extending Telecommunications Service to Rural Areas-The Chilean Experience: Awarding Subsidies Through Competitive Bidding

Björn Wellenius

11592: Public Consultation in Environmental Assessment: Lessons from East and South Asia

World Bank

11591: Investment Funds in Mass Privatization: Lessons from Russia and the Czech Republic

Katharina Pistor and Andrew Spicer

11590: The Veil of Vouchers

S. Ramachandran

11589: Which Countries Give Investors the Best Protection?

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

11588: Designing Regulatory Institutions for Infrastructure-Lessons from Argentina

Antonio Estache

11587: Colombia's Gradualist Approach to Private Participation in Infrastructure

Philip Gray

11586: Privatizing Roads: A New Method for Auctioning Highways

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

11585: Water Privatization and Regulation in England and Wales

Caroline van den Berg

11584: Ownership and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Czech Republic

Stijn Claesens, Simeon Djankov and Gerhard Pohl

11583: The Benefits of Privatization: Evidence from Mexico

Rafael La Porta and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

11582: What Factors Determine Auction Prices in Privatization?

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

11581: What the Transformation of Telecom Markets Means for Regulation

Peter Smith

11580: The Private Sector and the Internet

Carlos A. Primo Braga and Carsten Fink

11579: The Drivers of the Information Revolution: Cost, Computing Power, and Convergence

James Bond

11578: Liberalizing Telecommunications and the Role of the World Trade Organization

Carlos A. Primo Braga

11577: Telecommunications is Dead, Long Live Networking: The Effect of the Information Revolution on the Telecom Industry

James Bond

11576: Privatization and Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe

Robert E. Anderson, Simeon Dejankov, Gerhard Pohl and Stijn Claessons

11575: Price Caps, Rate-of-Return Regulation, and the Cost of Capital

Ian Alexander and Timothy Irwin

11574: The Private Sector in Water and Sanitation: How to Get Started

Penelope J. Brook Cowen

11573: A Retrospective on the Mexican Toll Road Program (1989-94)

Jeff Ruster

11572: The Restructuring and Privatization of the U.K. Electricity Supply-Was It Worth It?

David M Newbery and Michael Pollitt

11571: Utility Regulators: Roles and Responsibilities

Warrick Smith

11570: Utility Regulators: The Independence Debate

Warrick Smith

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