Regulatory Policy

The US-USSR Grain Agreement

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

In July, 1975, top White House economic officials in the Ford Administration receive information that the Soviet Union, in the face of a disappointing grain harvest, might seek to purchase large amounts of wheat and corn from US suppliers. This...

Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia (Sequel)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...

Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under-capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...

Chile's Water System: The Privatization Debate (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1995, the President of Chile proposed to the legislature several reforms designed to strengthen the agency that regulated the tariffs charged by Chile's water companies. Although a half dozen water companies were private, most of the water...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Corporate Philanthropy (D)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Philanthropy by Foundations (C)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Philanthropy by Individual Donors (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Landscape of Philanthropy in the United States (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Office of the Rail Regulator (Abridged)

Publication Date: March 09, 1998

This case describes the first four years of John Swift's tenure as Britain's Rail Regulator and the issues he faced in the fall of 1997. The post of Rail Regulator had been created by the Railway Act of 1993, as part of a plan to break up and...

Price Cap: The UK's Efforts to Regulate Regional Distribution Companies

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

This case focuses on the efforts by Stephen Littlechild, the United Kingdom's electricity regulator in the mid-1990s, to set performance-based rates for the country's 13 electricity distribution companies. The case allows for a class discussion...

Capitalization: The Politics of Privatization in Bolivia

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

In this case, the president of Bolivia and a team of officials grapple with questions of how to set up a model for privatizing a number of state-owned enterprises. In the 1980s, Bolivia, like most other Latin American countries, embraced a more...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...