Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond : An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets

Emerging market countries require substantial foreign investment for development, economic growth,and poverty alleviation. There are multiple challenges to attracting this investment, however, ranging from political and economic instability to corr...

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Main Authors:	Ramachandran, Vijay, Gelb, Alan, Buehler, Martin Reto
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES PUBLIC UTILITIES SERVICE DELIVERY PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INVESTMENT ZONE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/405751547845579068/Service-Performance-Guarantees-for-Public-Utilities-and-Beyond-An-Innovation-with-Potential-to-Attract-Investors-to-Emerging-Markets http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31201

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spelling	okr-10986-312012021-05-25T10:54:36Z Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond : An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets Ramachandran, Vijay Gelb, Alan Buehler, Martin Reto EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES PUBLIC UTILITIES SERVICE DELIVERY PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INVESTMENT ZONE Emerging market countries require substantial foreign investment for development, economic growth,and poverty alleviation. There are multiple challenges to attracting this investment, however, ranging from political and economic instability to corruption, poor security, and small market size. An additional challenge is inadequate delivery of key services like electricity and other utilities that private firms and investors rely on. Service performance guarantees are a promising approach to addressing this issue. These guarantees enable firms to purchase protection against poor or insufficient service delivery, and they may work particularly well in industrial or export processing zones by ensuring that shortfalls in service delivery are measured, reported, and addressed in a timely manner. 2019-02-01T21:43:50Z 2019-02-01T21:43:50Z 2019-01 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/405751547845579068/Service-Performance-Guarantees-for-Public-Utilities-and-Beyond-An-Innovation-with-Potential-to-Attract-Investors-to-Emerging-Markets http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31201 English EMCompass;Note 62 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo International Finance Corporation International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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spellingShingle	EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES PUBLIC UTILITIES SERVICE DELIVERY PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INVESTMENT ZONE Ramachandran, Vijay Gelb, Alan Buehler, Martin Reto Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond : An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets
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description	Emerging market countries require substantial foreign investment for development, economic growth,and poverty alleviation. There are multiple challenges to attracting this investment, however, ranging from political and economic instability to corruption, poor security, and small market size. An additional challenge is inadequate delivery of key services like electricity and other utilities that private firms and investors rely on. Service performance guarantees are a promising approach to addressing this issue. These guarantees enable firms to purchase protection against poor or insufficient service delivery, and they may work particularly well in industrial or export processing zones by ensuring that shortfalls in service delivery are measured, reported, and addressed in a timely manner.
format	Brief
author	Ramachandran, Vijay Gelb, Alan Buehler, Martin Reto
author_facet	Ramachandran, Vijay Gelb, Alan Buehler, Martin Reto
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title	Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond : An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets
title_short	Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond : An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets
title_full	Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond : An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets
title_fullStr	Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond : An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets
title_full_unstemmed	Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond : An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets
title_sort	service performance guarantees for public utilities and beyond : an innovation with potential to attract investors to emerging markets
publisher	International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/405751547845579068/Service-Performance-Guarantees-for-Public-Utilities-and-Beyond-An-Innovation-with-Potential-to-Attract-Investors-to-Emerging-Markets http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31201
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Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond : An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets

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