Dolarizacion, La - Ensayo Sobre La Moneda

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In the 1980s and '90s many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities, such as gas, telephones, and highways--with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But subsequent debacles including the collapse of California's wholesale electricity market and the bankruptcy of Britain's largest railroad company have raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these: how can government fairly and effectively regulate "natural monopolies"--those infrastructure and utility services whose technologies make competition impractical?

Rather than sticking to economics, José Gómez-Ibáñez draws on history, politics, and a wealth of examples to provide a road map for various approaches to regulation. He makes a strong case for favoring market-oriented and contractual approaches--including private contracts between infrastructure providers and customers as well as concession contracts with the government acting as an intermediary--over those that grant government regulators substantial discretion. Contracts can provide stronger protection for infrastructure customers and suppliers--and greater opportunities to tailor services to their mutual advantage. In some cases, however, the requirements of the firms and their customers are too unpredictable for contracts to work, and alternative schemes may be needed.

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A brief review.......2007-08-01

This book combines case-studies, historical overviews, and analysis of past and present infrastructure regulation. From the standpoint of someone who has worked in this industry for about a year, I found this to be an informative, well-written overview with an especially detailed elaboration of the development of regulations and governmental regulatory agencies from the end of the nineteenth century to middle of the twentieth. The author strives to present a balanced picture of the pros and cons of regulation, but it is fairly clear that he is prima facie against the idea of government regulation (he ends his book though with an admission that there is still much to learn about the application of regulatory schemes). There is much in this book to admire (I especially liked the discussions on unbundling, capture, and the influence of varying conceptions of private property) and very little to be dissatisfied with (I would have been more happy to see some of the historical narrative abridged and replaced with a more in-depth case-study examination of the correlation between deregulation and efficiency).

Critical Infrastructure: Reliability and Vulnerability (Advances in Spatial Science)

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Critical Infrastructure: Reliability and Vulnerability (Advances in Spatial Science)

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This text brings together differing geographic perspectives in modeling and analysis in order to highlight infrastructure weaknesses or plan for their protection. International scholars, from a variety of disciplines – geography, regional science, planning, public policy, operations research, mathematics, computer science, engineering and transportation - offer varying perspectives on this subject. This text is an important contribution offering synthesis and new methodological approaches. The purpose of this volume is to explore the potential consequences of critical infrastructure failure, stemming from both man-made (e.g., terrorist attacks) and natural disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.). The approaches employed are wide-ranging, including geographic, economic and social perspectives on critical infrastructure issues.

Building the Public City: The Politics, Governance and Finance of Public Infrastructure (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews)

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Building the Public City: The Politics, Governance and Finance of Public Infrastructure (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews)

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"This latest installment in the "Urban Affairs Annual Reviews" series is a timely and valuable collection of seven essays. . . . Although the subject matter is specialized and technical by nature, its treatment here places it in a broader context. Highly recommended." --Choice Public works are at the very heart of the physical, technological, and fiscal foundations of the American city. When roads, bridges, waste disposal sites, and water systems work properly, they are noticed least, or not at all. When attention is finally focused on infrastructure--usually in response to system failure or severe and continued congestion--real damage has already been done. All of the chapters in this carefully edited volume are concerned with how public infrastructure "gets done." Each of the chapters addresses the topic of "building the public city" as a multilayered discussion of history, political and administrative practice, governmental agency, and finance. The contributors suggest if there is a given in public infrastructure that cuts across all regions and levels of government, it is the politics of public debt--how does a society mobilize the fiscal resources and the political will to build, operate, and maintain the public city? An essential resource for students and scholars in urban studies, policy studies, and political science, Building the Public City is concerned with the historical, institutional, and case analyses of state and local government public infrastructure policy. "I give this book two thumbs up. It is a provocative assessment of the politics surrounding public infrastructure in urban America. . . . What I find most valuable about this volume is that it augments the prodigious literature on the economics of public infrastructure. Collectively the chapters make a convincing argument that we should redirect investments in public infrastructure and rethink how it is financed. . . . David C. Perry and his colleagues take us a long way toward this understanding. I recommend Building the Public City to anyone who is involved in public infrastructure planning." --Journal of the American Planning Association

SUBURBAN STEEL: MAGNIFICENT FAILURE OF THE LUSTRON CORP (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)

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SUBURBAN STEEL: MAGNIFICENT FAILURE OF THE LUSTRON CORP (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)
DOUGLAS KNERR
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The Lustron Home: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment

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Spatial Change and Interregional Flows in the Integrating Europe: Essays in Honour of Karin Peschel (Contributions to Economics)

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Spatial Change and Interregional Flows in the Integrating Europe: Essays in Honour of Karin Peschel (Contributions to Economics)

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Within the broad frame of regional research in an international perspective, the contributions of this volume present new theoretical, methodological and empirical results as well as political strategies for the following topics:
- ecomomic integration in the Baltic rim,
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Most of the topics deal with the long-term integration process in Europe, with a particular focus on the North European and Baltic Sea integration.

Cities in a Globalizing World: Governance, Performance, And Sustainability (Wbi Learning Resources Series) (Wbi Learning Resources Series)

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Cities in a Globalizing World: Governance, Performance, And Sustainability (Wbi Learning Resources Series) (Wbi Learning Resources Series)

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The City Reader (Urban Reader Series)

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"In a world moving very rapidly on both urbanization and globalization, cities in the developing world face both serious challenges and attractive opportunities. They can reap the benefits of economic growth by creating an enabling investment climate: well-functioning markets, institutions that support sound governance and regulatory regimes, and public infrastructure and social services. At the same time they can create an environment where their citizens are both included and empowered. And because cities do not exist in isolation, urban policies and programs must also be coordinated with national initiatives. Cities in a Globalizing World not only raises our awareness of issues that can only become still more pressing and still more critical to growth and equity in this century; it also provides important and valuable analyses of options for public action." ---- Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of Government Economic Service, United Kingdom

Urban Environment and Infrastructure: Toward Livable Cities (Directions in Development)

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Urban Environment and Infrastructure: Toward Livable Cities (Directions in Development)
Anthony G. Bigio , and Bharat Dahiya
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Urban Environment and Infrastructure reviews the World Bank's activities to improve urban environmental quality. It sets out the Bank's expanded brown agenda and emphasizes the crucial importance of infrastructure and environmental interventions in order to improve livability in cities in developing countries. The World Bank has more than US$12 billion worth of active commitments aimed at improving urban environmental quality. While the Bank's investments are directed at much needed basic environmental services especially for the urban poor, the challenge of improving urban environment or livability in large cities needs further attention. Increasing climate variability, its impacts, especially sea-level rise, and urban impacts of natural disasters are becoming more and more part of the daily challenges facing cities in the developing world, seventy percent of which are located on the coasts. The volume provides pragmatic recommendations on how to deal with the challenge of this expanded brown agenda.

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The brown agenda or urban environmental issues became an important part of the international policy agenda following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992). Urban environmental issues continue to remain a major challenge in the cities of developing countries. The World Bank strengthened its focus on urban environmental management with the adoption of this brown agenda as part of the Bank's urban livability program. Urban Environment and Infrastructure reviews the World Bank's activities to improve urban environmental quality. It sets out the Bank's expanded brown agenda and emphasizes the crucial importance of infrastructure and environmental interventions in order to improve livability in cities in developing countries. The World Bank has more than US$12 billion worth of active commitments aimed at improving urban environmental quality. While the Bank's investments are directed at much needed basic environmental services especially for the urban poor, the challenge of improving urban environment or livability in large cities needs further attention. Increasing climate variability, its impacts, especially sea-level rise, and urban impacts of natural disasters are becoming more and more part of the daily challenges facing cities in the developing world, seventy percent of which are located on the coasts. The volume provides pragmatic recommendations on how to deal with the challenge of this expanded brown agenda.

Bonds head for ballot, but debt ceiling and priorities remain uncertain. (In Sight).(Brief Article): An article from: California Planning & Development Report

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Bonds head for ballot, but debt ceiling and priorities remain uncertain. (In Sight).(Brief Article): An article from: California Planning & Development Report
William Fulton
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This digital document is an article from California Planning & Development Report, published by California Planning & Development Report on February 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1153 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bonds head for ballot, but debt ceiling and priorities remain uncertain. (In Sight).(Brief Article)
Author: William Fulton
Publication: California Planning & Development Report (Newsletter)
Date: February 1, 2002
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Bridging the Finance Gap in Housing and Infrastructure (Urban Management Series)

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* Documents the radical changes in methodology of one Northern NGO (Homeless International) over twenty years of providing support to organizations of the urban poor across the globe.

* Present extensive excerpts from conventional small-scale grants to collaborative design of new financial products – in so that other agencies may build on the lessons learned.

As poverty becomes increasingly concentrated in urban areas of the developing world, the need to access new sources of finance for slum upgrading, resettlement, and infrastructure provision becomes correspondingly acute. This is particularly so for organizations of the urban poor as they enter into collaborative arrangements with the state, and with the private sector.

Starting from conventional small-scale grant giving to nascent NGOs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Homeless International has broadened its methodology to include collaborative design of new financial products including an international guarantee fund that provides loan capital for bridge financing large-scale developments which are prioritised, designed, and managed by organizations of the urban poor.

This book is packed with illustrations of lessons learned by Homeless International so that others can build on these in order to create a wider collaborative capacity to bridge finance gaps.

Cities and Fiscal Choices: A New Model of Urban Public Investment (Duke Press Policy Studies)

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Cities and Fiscal Choices: A New Model of Urban Public Investment (Duke Press Policy Studies)
Michael Pagano
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This publication is the framework for cooperation and development in the Greater Mekong Subregion: East-West Economic Corridor. It presents the opportunities for integrated development along the Corridor in the areas of infrastructure, trade and investment, agroindustry, industrial estate development, and tourism.

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New Trade theory, New Growth theory, and the developing literature on National Systems of Innovation have combined to produce an explosion of interest over the past two decades around issues of trade, growth and technical change. A similar focus has dominated public policy debates. This book examines the interconnections among technology, economic growth and international trade. Market forces alone are seen to be far from adequate for the efficient generation, transfer, and diffusion of innovation, while public policy is identified as playing a key role for a truly innovative economy.

Non neutral technical change, import demand functions and export led growth in Sub Saharan Africa (Working papers series / Bernard M. Baruch College. School of Business and Public Administration)

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Non neutral technical change, import demand functions and export led growth in Sub Saharan Africa (Working papers series / Bernard M. Baruch College. School of Business and Public Administration)
Emmanuel C Egbe
Manufacturer: School of Business and Public Administration, Baruch College, City University of New York
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