Infrastructure

Aiding or Abetting? World Bank and the 1997 Judicial Reform Project

Publication Date: December 01, 2004

When the World Bank signed an agreement with the government of Peru in December, 1997 to provide a $22.5 million loan to help reform the country's antiquated and corrupt judicial system, the Bank knew it faced risks. Peru's President Alberto...

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

Publication Date: October 01, 2003

Thirty years after its founding in 1973, New York City's Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) found itself at a crossroads. The nonprofit, church-related organization that had long-provided tenants with assistance in renovating abandoned...

Career Caravan

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

In the summer of 2000, Bob Embry, the President of the Abell Foundation, asked two consultants to evaluate the performance Career Caravan, a job-to-work transportation program that his foundation was helping to fund. Career Caravan took...

DART's Suburban Service

Publication Date: March 01, 2003

In the spring of 2000, planners at Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), the regional public transit agency serving the Dallas metropolitan area, had to decide whether to cancel or modify a poorly performing bus route serving the suburban cities of...

The Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge Proposal

Publication Date: January 22, 2003

In the first years after its 1997 reunification with China, the economy of Hong Kong, a former British crown colony that had developed as a post-World War II economic powerhouse, was sputtering. Growth in gross domestic product had slowed and...

Argentina's Telecommunications Industry and the Economic Crisis of 2002

Publication Date: December 16, 2002

During the 1990s, Argentina carried out an ambitious program of economic reforms, including the privatization of its telephone system and other state-owned utilities. In 2002, however, a severe economic crisis forced Argentina to default on its...

Cochin International Airport: Gateway to God's Own Country

Publication Date: March 01, 2002

Cochin International Airport opened in 1999 to widespread acclaim as the first and only airport to be constructed and operated by a private company in India. By 2001 the airport was generating enough revenue to cover its operating costs, but not...

Transener: Expanding Transmission Capacity (C)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

This case provides background on the restructuring of the Argentine electric industry and the development of the wholesale power market through the prism of Transener, the private firm forged from a formerly public corporation in 1993 to operate...

Transener: The First Tariff Review (B)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

This case provides background on the restructuring of the Argentine electric industry and the development of the wholesale power market through the prism of Transener, the private firm forged from a formerly public corporation in 1993 to operate...

Transener: The Electric Industry and the Wholesale Power Market (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

This case provides background on the restructuring of the Argentine electric industry and the development of the wholesale power market through the prism of Transener, the private firm forged from a formerly public corporation in 1993 to operate...

India: The Dabhol Power Corporation (B)

Publication Date: April 27, 2001

In the wake of the fraud conspiracy convictions of its former executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the name Enron will likely long be synonymous with corporate corruption. But how did it rise, to the point of being the sixth...

India: The Dabhol Power Corporation (A)

Publication Date: April 27, 2001

In the wake of the fraud conspiracy convictions of its former executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the name Enron will likely long be synonymous with corporate corruption. But how did it rise, to the point of being the sixth...