TY - BOOK ID - 133967870 TI - Utilities Reforms and Corruption in Developing Countries AU - Estache, Antonio AU - Goicoechea, Ana AU - Trujillo, Lourdes PY - 2006 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Data KW - Data Analysis KW - Databases KW - E-Business KW - Electricity KW - Emerging Markets KW - Energy KW - Energy Production and Transportation KW - ICT Policy and Strategies KW - Information KW - Information and Communication Technologies KW - Infrastructure Economics and Finance KW - Infrastructure Regulation KW - International Telecommunications KW - Mobile Phones KW - Performance KW - Performance Indicators KW - Poverty Monitoring and Analysis KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Price KW - Prices KW - Private Sector KW - Private Sector Development KW - Private Sector Participation KW - Prof Profits KW - Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures KW - Public Sector Economics and Finance KW - Quality of Services KW - Result KW - Results KW - Social Accountability KW - Social Development KW - Technology KW - Telecommunications KW - Town Water Supply and Sanitation KW - Water Supply and Sanitation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133967870 AB - 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 behavior that one would expect from monopolies in the sector. The 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 utility services. ER -