Journal of Economic Policy Reform Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713648069 Reforming the local public sector: economics and politics in privatization of water and solid waste Germà Bel a; Xavier Fageda a a Research Unit Public Policy and Economic Regulation, University of Barcelona, Barcelona,...

The Chinese economic takeoff has captured the attention of the whole world with its 15-year sustained growth. It started with the implementation of Deng Xiaoping's economic reform policy in 1979. Since then, China has been the world's fastest-growing economy. For a country comprising one fifth of the world's population, with an exceedingly diverse economy, such rapid growth would have been thou...

Algeria’s economic crisis parallels and is an intrinsic part of its political crisis over the past decade. It consists, furthermore, of an interrelated crisis over control of the economic rent and the activities of an informal parallel economy originally based on smuggling and now sustained through violence which is legitimised by Islamist rhetoric. Economic reform, therefore, cannot be meaning...

The 1990s witnessed a worldwide trend toward electricity sector reforms in developed and developing economies. These reforms have generally been based on private participation, regulatory reform, and competition in the sector. This paper reviews and draws lessons from the reform experience in developing countries. Developing countries have had to reform technically and financially less efficien...