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Managing Infrastructure Reform & Regulation

The following research projects are currently being undertaken or have recently been completed:

  • Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in Africa (with Stanford University’s PESD);
  • Private Management Contracts & Concessions in the Electricity Sector in Africa;
  • Regulation of Electricity Services in Africa: An Assessment of Current Experience and an Exploration of Hybrid and Transitional Regulatory Systems (with the World Bank and AFUR);
  • Design of a New Regulatory System for Water Services in South Africa;
  • A History and Analysis of the Electrification Programme in South Africa;
  • Investment, Finance and Uncertainty: the Challenge of Power Sector Investment in South Africa;
  • Power Sector Reform and Poverty in Africa (with ESMAP/World Bank);
  • The Political Economy of Power Sector Reform in Developing Countries (with Stanford University).

See the MIR Publications page for further information related to these and other projects.