The Role of Economic Regulators in the Governance of Infrastructure

Economic regulators are responsible for ensuring that infrastructure services are delivered efficiently, where competition on its own is unable to achieve this outcome. Based on a survey of 34 economic regulators covering 77 sectors and subsectors including energy, transport, communications and water, this report explores how economic regulators carry out this task, and suggests how this experience can be usefully applied in the governance of infrastructure more broadly.
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Executive summary
The “governance of infrastructure” is the processes, tools, and norms of interaction, decision making and monitoring used by government organisations and their counterparts to make infrastructure services available to the public and the public sector. Governments are often involved in the delivery of infrastructure services, from hospitals to utilities such as energy, water, communications and transport.
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