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  • Small modular reactors for enhancing energy security in developing countries (English)

    In recent years, small modular reactors (SMRs) have been attracting considerable attention around the world. SMR designs incorporate innovative approaches to achieve simplicity, modularity and speed of...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102481 Document Date: August 14, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Kuznetsov,Vladimir

  • Eurasian cities : new realities along the silk road (English)

    Eurasian cities, unique in the global spatial landscape, were part of the world's largest experiment in urban development. The challenges they now face because of their history offer valuable lessons to...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 72804 Document Date: July 9, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Coulibaly,Souleymane,Deichmann,Uwe Klaus,Dillinger,William R.,Ionescu-Heroiu,Marcel,Kessides,Ioannis N.,Kunaka,Charles,Saslavsky,Daniel Mario

  • Regionalizing infrastructure for deepening market integration: the case of East Africa (English)

    The East African Community has long recognized that regional economic integration can yield significant welfare gains to its member states. To that end, the community has been making steady progress towards...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6113 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Benjamin,Nancy Claire

  • Competition and innovation-driven inclusive growth (English)

    The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and facilitating it, and whether it is inclusive. In a sample of more than 26,000 manufacturing...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5852 Document Date: October 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dutz,Mark Andrew,Kessides,Ioannis N.,O'Connell, Stephen,Willig,Robert D.

  • Sunk costs, market contestability, and the size distribution of firms (English)

    This paper offers a new economic explanation for the observed inter-industry differences in the size distribution of firms. The empirical estimates--based on three temporal (1982, 1987, and 1992) cross-sections...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5540 Document Date: January 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Tang, Li

  • Nuclear power and sustainable energy policy : promises and perils (English)

    The challenges and opportunities of nuclear power in meeting the projected large absolute increase in energy demand, especially electricity, throughout the industrialized and developing world, while helping...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 76807 Document Date: August 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kessides,Ioannis N.

  • The World Bank research observer 25 (2) (English)

    This issue includes the following : Ideas and innovation in East Asia, by Milan Brahmghatt and Albert Hu. Impact assessments in finance and private sector development : what have we learned and what should...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 73277 Document Date: August 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brahmghatt, Milan,Gill,Indermit S.,Goh, Chor-Ching,Hu, Albert,Kessides,Ioannis N.,Lecocq,Franck Michel,Mckenzie,David J.,Nauges,Celine,Shalizi,Zmarak,Whittington,Dale

  • Regionalizing telecommunications reform in West Africa (English)

    In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition that significant welfare gains could be realized through deep forms of regional integration which entail harmonization of legal, regulatory and...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5126 Document Date: November 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Noll,Roger G.,Benjamin,Nancy Claire

  • Toward defining and measuring the affordability of public utility services (English)

    This paper reviews the progress made in the literature toward defining and measuring the affordability of utilities. It highlights the relative merits of alternate affordability metrics; the practical...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4915 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Miniaci,Raffaele,Scarpa,Carlo,Valbonesi,Paola

  • Current and forthcoming issues in the South African electricity sector (English)

    One of the contentious issues in electricity reform is whether there are significant gains from restructuring systems that are moderately well run. South Africa's electricity system is a case in point...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4197 Document Date: April 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko,Kessides,Ioannis N.,Maurer,Luiz T. A.

  • The pricing dynamics of utilities with underdeveloped networks (English)

    This paper uses an analytically tractable intertemporal framework for analyzing the dynamic pricing of a utility with an underdeveloped network (a typical case in most developing countries) facing a competitive...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4198 Document Date: April 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chisari,Omar Osvaldo,Kessides,Ioannis N.

  • The World Bank research observer 20 (1) (English)

    This issue includes the following: Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor: understanding political incentives for providing public services by Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani; Evaluating the impact...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 38879 Document Date: March 21, 2005 Disclosure Status: Author: Baffes,John,Das,Jishnu,Do,Quy-Toan,Keefer,Philip E.,Kessides,Ioannis N.,Khemani,Stuti,Ozler,Berk,Rawlings,Laura B.,Rubio, Gloria M.

  • Infrastructure privatization and regulation : promises and perils (English)

    Infrastructure is crucial for generating growth, alleviating poverty, and increasing international competitiveness. For much of the twentieth century and in most countries, the network utilities that delivered...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 76747 Document Date: March 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kessides,Ioannis N.

  • Reforming infrastructure - privatization, regulation; and competition (English)

    Infrastructure industries and services are crucial for generating economic growth, alleviating poverty, and increasing international competitiveness. Safe water is essential for life, and health. Reliable...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 28985 Document Date: January 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Kessides,Ioannis N.

  • Restructuring regulation of the railroad industry (English)

    Throughout the world, the rail industry has been one of the most heavily regulated sectors. The public utility paradigm of government regulation has failed to handle the central regulatory problem - the...

    Document Type: Viewpoint Report No.: 16918 Document Date: October 31, 1995 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kessides,Ioannis N.,Willig,Robert D.