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Eight Principles of Electricity Industry Reform

The end of the twentieth century was accompanied by a concerted worldwide push towards competitive reform of the electricity supply industry (ESI).  Until that stage, few countries would have questioned the economic efficiency of publicly owned vertically integrated utilities and their role as monopoly service providers in the ESI (the main exceptions being the privately … Continue Reading ››

Fiscal systems for mining in countries with mineral resources, and their effect on the commercialisation of minerals: with special reference to Brazil,

This paper likens the international mining industry to a street-market. When a multinational company is considering where to invest, it has a large number of choices. For evaluation, a mining company is likely to focus on three main issues – geological risk and reward, political and macro-economic risk and the fiscal system. Brazil ranks highly … Continue Reading ››