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Handbook for Evaluating Infrastructure Regulatory Systems.
More than 200 new infrastructure regulators have been created around the world in the last 15 years. They were established to encourage clear and sustainable long-term economic and legal commitments by governments and investors to encourage new investment to benefit existing and new customers. There...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Herndon :
World Bank Publications,
2006.
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| Colección: | Online access: World Bank World Bank Open Knowledge Repository.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Executive Summary; What the Handbook Does; Quick Evaluation; Mid-Level Evaluation; In-Depth Evaluation; What Should Be Evaluated?; What Benchmarks?; Transitional Regulatory Systems; Chapter 1 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Infrastructure Regulatory Systems: A Framework and Rationale; Why Evaluate Regulatory Effectiveness?; A Checkup; Expectations and Performance; Recommended Approach; What Should Be Evaluated?; The Meaning of Regulation; Regulatory Systems; Regulatory Entities; Quasi-Regulatory Systems and Failed States.
- Old-Style Versus New-Style RegulationTwo Important Dimensions of Regulation: Governance and Substance; Focus of This Handbook; The Structure of the Handbook; Chapter 2 Approaches to Evaluating Regulatory Effectiveness; Principal Methods of Evaluation; Type 1-Cross-Country Statistical Analyses; Type 2-Cross-Country Descriptive Analyses; Type 3-Single-Country Structured Case Studies; The Approach of This Handbook and How It Differs from Earlier Approaches; Sector Outcomes and Regulatory Evaluations; Quantitative Versus Qualitative?; The Recommended Approach.
- Two Limitations of the Recommended ApproachThe Limits of Regulation; The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain; Bad Regulation; The Strategy of the Recommendations; Chapter 3 Benchmarks for Regulatory Governance: Key Principles and Critical Standards; Why Benchmarks?; What Is an Independent Regulator?; Why Use an Independent Regulator as a Benchmark?; Are There Meta-Principles for Regulatory Governance?; Is the Independent Regulator Model Feasible in Countries with Limited Governance Capability?; Ten Key Principles for the Independent Regulator Model of Regulatory Governance; 1. Independence.
- 2. Accountability3. Transparency and Public Participation; 4. Predictability; 5. Clarity of Roles; 6. Completeness and Clarity in Rules; 7. Proportionality; 8. Requisite Powers; 9. Appropriate Institutional Characteristics; 10. Integrity; Critical Standards for Effective Infrastructure Regulation; 1. Legal Framework; 2. Legal Powers; 3. Property and Contract Rights; 4. Clarity of Roles in Regulation and Policy; 5. Clarity and Comprehensiveness of Regulatory Decisions; 6. Predictability and Flexibility; 7. Consumer Rights and Obligations; 8. Proportionality; 9. Regulatory Independence.
- 10. Financing of Regulatory Agencies11. Regulatory Accountability; 12. Regulatory Processes and Transparency; 13. Public Participation; 14. Appellate Review of Regulatory Decisions; 15. Ethics; Chapter 4 Transitional Regulatory Systems and Criteria for Evaluating Them; Overview of Transitional Regulatory Systems; Why Transitional Systems?; Good Fits Versus Best Practice; Types of Transitional Regulatory Systems; The Danger of Transitional Regulatory Systems That Never Evolve; The Importance of Starting Conditions; Governance; Commitment and Capacity; Commercialization.