The prospects of cost savings, increased market share, and other competitive advantages are prompting more, and more utilities to cross traditional industry lines, and offer services in several sectors. The note reviews the changes occurred during the last two decades, when deregulation, and...

This note, based on the World Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) project database, reviews trends in infrastructure projects with private participation in low-income countries. Four main conclusions arise. Surprisingly, the proportion of countries with at least one project -...

In this case study the government is initially the monopoly supplier of travel and freight service - by ferry, jetfoil, and airplane - between two islands. It then allows private operators to enter the industry. The first new operator revolutionizes the market, setting off a chain of events that...

Sydney Water, a statutory corporation responsible for capturing, storing, treating, and reticulating Sydney's water, has contracted for privately built, owned, and operated (BOO) treatment plants. By the end of the century, these plants will treat almost all the drinking water consumed in...