Keeping the Lights On: Power Sector Reform in Latin America

By Nils-Henrik von-der-Fehr, Jaime Millán (10/03, En) See also Infrastructure and Financial Markets

ISBN: 1931003556
383 pp. 2003
English

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Power sector reforms across Latin America in the 1990s based on privatization, liberalization and market forces were largely unavoidable. This book argues that while there is no turning back from this process, many reforms may not prove sustainable without further efforts to build a stronger institutional platform to support them.

The analytical framework presented in Keeping the Lights On: Power Sector Reform in Latin America establishes a baseline for the sustainability of reforms and identifies additional areas for exploration, analysis and inquiry. This baseline is critical to setting the stage for the next generation of reforms -or mid-course corrections- that will be necessary to enhance the sustainability of changes in progress. The book includes case studies of power sector reforms in Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala, as well as a timely section on the security of supply.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

About the Authors

Introduction

Jaime Millán and Nils-Henrik M. von-der-Fehr

Chapter 1

Analytical Framework

Nils-Henrik M. von-der-Fehr and Jaime Millán

Chapter 2

Colombia: Coping with Reform Crisis

Nils-Henrik M. von-der-Fehr and Jaime Millán

Chapter 3

Honduras: The Road to Sustainable Reform

Ian Walker and Juan Benavides

Chapter 4

Guatemala: Reforms in the Balance

Fundación Solar and Carlos Rufín

Chapter 5

Supply Security Solutions: Principles and Practices

Nils-Henrik M. von-der-Fehr

Chapter 6

Power Sector Reform: Lessons Learned

Nils-Henrik M. von-der-Fehr and Jaime Millán

Epilogue

A Reviewer's Insights

Ashley Brown

Last updated: 05/08/07

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