Regulatory governance in developing countries / edited by Martin Minogue, Ledivina Cariño.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The past decade has seen a quickening of the pace and extent of privatisation in developing countries. This text critically reviews regulatory reforms in developing countries, focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of the 'best practice' model of reform.

1. Introduction : regulatory governance in developing countries / Martin Minogue and Ledivina Carino -- 2. States and modes of regulation in the global political economy / Nicola Phillips -- 3. The internationalization of regulation : implications for developing countries / Giandomenico Majone -- 4. Apples and oranges : comparing international experiences in regulatory reform / Martin Minogue -- 5. Regulatory governance and accountability : a UK perspective on improving the regulatory state / Peter Vass -- 6. Regulatory reform in developing countries : designing business set-up processes / Anthony Ogus and Qing Zhang -- 7. Reforms and practices in local regulatory governance : the case of the Philippines / Perla E. Legaspi -- 8. The Philippine port sector : a case of regulatory capture / Enrico L. Basilio -- 9. The capability approach and access to information and communication technologies / Erwin M. Alampay -- 10. Regulatory governance of the water sector in South Africa / Kobus Muller and Frederik Uys -- 11. Pioneering redistributive regulatory reform : a study of implementation of a Catchment Management Agency for the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa / Julia Brown and Philip Woodhouse -- 12. Pro-poor water services in Metro Manila : in search of greater equity / Jocelyn C. Cuaresma -- 13. Climbing South Africa's water services ladder : safe drinking water through regulatory governance / Grant Mackintosh and Frederik Uys -- 14. A diagnostic model for capacity building in regulatory agencies and competition commissions : an empirical study based on the ICT sector, Southern Africa / Derek Eldridge and Brian Goulden.