Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of coffee, sugar, cane-based ethanol, orange juice, and iron ore. Yet over the past 10 years, its economy has grown an average of only 2,5 percent per year. How can Brazil improve its competitiveness in the global economy? Knowledge and innovation for competitiveness in Brazil makes a compelling argument that, in a global economy that is increasingly kno…
This book is a manual for infrastructure professionals which provide new economic regulators with practical guidance. It contains nine chapters explaining the philosophy of price controls, the procedures for resetting a price control, the form of a price control, present value calculations, operating costs, investment and the regulatory asset base, revenues, and the rate of return. This book i…