Anish Khan

M Ramesh

Salman Khan

Mohammed Muzibur Rahman

Abdullah Mohammed Asiri

The modern world is moving towards sustainable development and furan is a key material in this transition. Furan is processed from furfural, which is an organic compound obtained from biomass feedstock. Thus, furan is a green and environmentally friendly material. It is used to produce pharmaceuticals, resin, agrochemicals, and lacquers. It is a key starting material for a variety of industries for the preparation of many useful products. This book presents comprehensive information on furan and its derivatives.

Recent Advances and Applications

Furan Derivatives

Xun Wu

Darryl S L Jarvis

Eduardo Araral <b>Jr.</b>

Regulation of public infrastructure has been a topic of interest for more than a century. Providing public goods, securing their financing, maintenance, and improving the efficiency of their delivery, has generated a voluminous literature and series of debates. More recently, these issues have again become a central concern, as new public management approaches have transformed the role of the state in the provision of public goods and the modalities by which the financing of infrastructure and its operation are procured. Yet, despite the proliferation of new modalities of regulating infrastructure little is known about what works and why. Why do certain regulatory regimes fail and others succeed? What regulatory designs and institutional features produce optimal outcomes and how? And why do regulatory forms of governance when transplanted into different institutional contexts produce less than uniform outcomes? This book addresses these questions, exploring the theoretical foundations of regulation as well as a series of case studies drawn from the telecommunications, electricity, and water sectors. It brings together distinguished scholars and expert practitioners to explore the practical problems of regulation, regulatory design, infrastructure operation, and the implications for infrastructure provision. Contents:Regulating Infrastructure: A Review of the Issues, Problems, and Challenges (Ed Araral, Darryl S L Jarvis, M Ramesh & Wu Xun)Problems, Issues, and Perspectives in Regulation, Regulatory Design and Outcomes:Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why, and How do we Know? (Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes, Marcos Fernández-Gutiérrez and Julio Revuelta)Does Political Accountability Matter for Infrastructure Regulation?: The Case of Telecommunications (Farid Gasmi, Paul Noumba & Laura Recuero Virto)Entry Relaxation and an Independent Regulator: Performance Impact on the Mobile Telecoms Industry in Asia (Chalita Srinuan, Pratompong Srinuan & Erik Bohlin)Electricity Sector Regulation & Governance:Risk, Regulation and Governance: Institutional Processes and Regulatory Risk in the Thai Energy Sector (Darryl S L Jarvis)Electricity Tariff Regulation in Thailand: Analyses and Applications of Incentive Regulation (Puree Sirasoontorn)Regulating Power without a Five Year Plan: Institutional Changes in the Chinese Power Sector (Kun-Chin Lin, Mika Purra & Hui Lin)The Indonesian Electricity Sector: Institutional Transition, Regulatory Capacity and Outcomes (Mika Purra)Regulating the Independent Power Producers: A Comparative Analysis of Performance of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu in India (Rajendra Kumar)Partial Privatization and Nested Regulation: Institutional Choices in Public Sector and Regulatory Reform (Sunil Tankha)The Electricity Industry Reform in Korea: Lessons for Further Liberalization (Junki Kim & Kyuhyun Kim)Water Sector Regulation & Goverance:Regulatory Independence and Contract Incompleteness: Assessing Regulatory Effectiveness in Water Privatization in Manila (Xun Wu, Loit Batac & Nepomuceno A Malaluan)Can Regulation Improve the Performance of Government-Controlled Water Utilities? (David Ehrhardt & Nils Janson)Effects of Regulatory Quality and Political Institutions on Access to Water and Sanitation (Andrew B Whitford, Helen Smith & Anant Mandawat)The Regulation of Water Infrastructure in Italy: Origins and Effects of an ‘Hybrid’ Regulatory System (Alberto Asquer)Measuring Effectiveness of Regulation Across a River System: A Welfare Approach (Alex Coram & Lyle Noakes)Private Sector Participation and Regulatory Reform in Water Supply: The Southern Mediterranean Experience (Edouard Perard)Tempered Responsiveness through Regulatory Negotiations in the Water Sector: Managing Unanticipated Innovations Emerging from Participation Reforms (Boyd Fuller & Sunil Tankha) Readership: Students and academics studying and teaching urban and infrastructure policy; public policy professionals and policy makers. Keywords:Infrastructure;Regulation;Asia;Electricity;Water;Public Policy;Economic ReformKey Features:Brings together established and emerging experts on infrastructure regulationsContains comparative case studies from Asia and other parts of the worldCovers a wide range of key infrastructure industries like telecommunications, power, and water

Lessons from Asia and Beyond

Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why and How Do We Know?

Michael Howlett

This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research frontier in contemporary policy studies. The book is structured into a series of sections on policy capacity in theory and practice, each focusing on a specific aspect of policy capacity and its influence on policy formulation, decision-making, implementation and evaluation. In addition to making a significant contribution to the body of literature on the theoretical approaches to researching the role of capacity in policymaking, it also provides practical examples of the application of these approaches through a variety of national and sectoral case studies. Including contributions from authors working in a wide variety of disciplines, the book demonstrates, across the various topics investigated, many commonalities and consistencies in relation to the study of policy capacity and policy-making. This work has interdisciplinary appeal and will engage scholars in fields ranging from geography to communications, health, social work and political science, amongst others with an interest in public policy.

Assessing Governmental Competences and Capabilities in Theory and Practice

Policy Capacity and Governance

"Carefree, work-loving archaeologist Anand’s life takes a dramatic turn when he stumbles upon an ancient letter – written by an Englishman to the then Nawab of an Indian province. The letter apologises for a theft of the Nawab’s jewels – present whereabouts unknown – by the writer’s brother. Anand decides to take it up as his project. He has nothing to go by except the letter. But his brilliant, gorgeous girlfriend, Priya, is determined to see that her lover succeeds in his quest. Anand and Priya have to deal with the devil-incarnate, Imran, who is determined to stop them. Aided by Priya and his archaeology guru, Professor Rao, Anand reaches a point where he is about to shake hands with success. Then, unexpected things begin to happen."

Silence of the Cicadas

Giliberto Capano

Altaf Virani

Policy design efforts are hampered by inadequate understanding of how policy tools and actions promote effective policies. The objective of this book is to address this gap in understanding by proposing a causal theory of the linkages between policy actions and policy effects. Adopting a mechanistic perspective, the book identifies the causal processes that activate effects and help achieve goals. It thus offers a powerful analytical tool to both scholars and practitioners of public policy seeking to design effective policies.

First- and Second-order Mechanisms in Policy Design

Making Policies Work

M Ramesh

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