This paper reviews the state of knowledge on the effectiveness of donor interventions aimed at improving the regulatory environment for private sector development in developing countries. Where regulatory reform is undertaken, the expectation is that there will be improvements to economic and...

Over the last two decades electricity sectors in both developed and developingcountries have been subject to restructuring to introduce private capital and increasecompetition. Although the effects of such reforms in a number of the developedeconomies are now well documented, apart from a few...