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Pakistan's power sector underwent a substantial, if protracted, reform process. Beginning with an independent power …
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The Philippines power sector underwent a substantial and largely complete reform process. Following a severe shortage … National Power Corporation extremely burdensome, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act was passed in 2001. This was intended … at the wholesale and retail levels. Although the implementation of the full reform program took longer than originally …
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The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies … pressure in 2014 when energy subsidies reached 6.8 percent of gross domestic product. Since then, the reform process has been …
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ahead of other elements may limit the market effectiveness and even make subsequent reform steps more difficult …
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Two successive waves of reform have fundamentally altered the structure and organization of Kenya's vibrant power …-beginning in 2002 and led by domestic reform champions-the thrust of first-wave reforms was continued, with the strengthening of …
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benefits of reform from materializing until much later. The failed first attempt with the Bujagali Hydropower independent power … substantial improvements in operational efficiency and accelerating service coverage. Although the reform model was eventually …
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one- and two-year lags between media coverage and reform implementation. To achieve this objective, the study put together … reform. Second, countries with greater media coverage of Doing Business indicators tend to have higher numbers of implemented …
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A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...
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In many developing countries (and beyond), public sector workers are not just simply implementers of policies designed by the politicians in charge of supervising them-so called agents and principals, respectively. Public sector workers can have the power to influence whether politicians are...
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The power sector reform experiences of developing countries vary greatly. To help explain this from a political economy … investments. Reform advocates never took political economy issues into full consideration. Yet, policy makers have had … sociopolitical as well as technical motives for reform, such as crisis response. International norms and competition for foreign …
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