Antonio Estache

TL;DR: The World Development report 1994 as discussed by the authors examines the link between infrastructure and development and explores ways in which developing countries can improve both the provision and the quality of infrastructure services, and identifies the basic cause of poor past performance as inadequate institutional incentives for improving the provision of infrastructure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the efficiency of publicly and privately owned water utilities and reached conflicting conclusions on the impact of ownership on efficiency by estimating a stochastic cost frontier for a sample of Asian and Pacific regional water companies.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive study identifies the concepts that are central to assessing the effect of infrastructure reform on the poor, based on a detailed analysis of the effects of a decade of reforms in Latin America.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the various dimensions of efficiency that regulators should be concerned with and summarize the main quantification techniques available to facilitate decisions in the most common regulatory processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing the investment needs and the emerging policy issues, and make a case for a stronger commitment of the international community to generate the information needed to assess and monitor infrastructure needs and policies.