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Utilities reforms and corruption in developing countries Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Antonio Estache
Ana Goicoechea
Lourdes Trujillo () (Department of Economics, City University, London and DAEA, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria )
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This paper shows empirically that “privatization” in the energy, telecommunications and water sectors, and the introduction of independent regulators in those sectors, have not always had the expected effects on access, affordability or quality of services. It also shows that corruption leads to adjustments in the quantity, quality, and price of services consistent with the profit-maximizing behaviour that one would expect from monopolies in the sector. Finally, our results suggest that privatization and the introduction of independent regulators have, at best, only partial effects on the consequences of corruption for access, affordability and quality of utilities services.
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