Deregulation and Its Discontents: Rewriting the Rules in Asia

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M. Ramesh, Michael Howlett
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006 M01 1 - 264 pages
. . . an extremely interesting collection, full of insights and institutional detail. . . The book definitely deserves the attention of those interested in one of the most debated issues of the last 20 years in economics and political science. Herb Thomps

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Contents

the evolution of dereregulation
1
governance and globalization
11
developing a responsive regulation
13
race to the bottom top and middle
29
cases in East Asian regulatory reform
47
electricity refoms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
49
5 Privatization and regulation of competition in the electricity sector
80
6 Independent power producers in Indonesia and the Philippines
109
8 Governance and regulation of provident and pension funds in Asia
151
9 Regulation and deregulation of the stock market in India
168
PART III Policy design pinciples for reulatory reform
193
10 Design principles for smart reglations
195
11 Universal service and the transition from state control to statemonitored competition
212
the dereregulatory cycle learning and spillover effects in regulatory policymaking
228
Index
237
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evidence from the Philippines and Thailand
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About the author (2006)

Edited by M Ramesh, Professor and UNESCO Chair of Social Policy Design in Asia, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and Michael Howlett, Burnaby Mountain Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada

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