Eastern Europe Privatization Yearbook

Eastern Europe Privatization Yearbook
Author: Inc. Ibp
Publisher: IBP USA
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 143306538X

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Eastern Europe Privatization Yearbook: Major Programs and Projects

Angola Company Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws

Angola Company Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws
Author: IBP, Inc.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1433069369

From cloud to puddle, and puddle to stream, the Little Raindrop is making its way on the remarkable journey that is Earth’s water cycle. In this inviting story—illustrated with pastels for a soft, full color—readers are taught about science and nature through a character-driven narrative that leads a little raindrop on a big adventure. With an easy-to-follow plot that teaches precipitation, water flow, and evaporation, The Little Raindrop offers a sweet story full of learning and discovery. Featuring a heartwarming adventure from author Joanna Gray and beautiful pastel illustrations by Dubravka Kolanovic, The Little Raindrop takes readers on a fun and educational ride through the water cycle.

Reforming Infrastructure

Reforming Infrastructure
Author: Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.