These discussions have been going on for years between the two parties (World Bank JERP, 2015). Core companies are not necessarily the best managers of these municipal utility networks and may not invest adequately in repair and maintenance, given low' utility rates and the anticipated asset transfer to local administrations. The central government could consider designing a specific framework to speed up such asset transfers in monotowns where core companies still own municipal utility networks. The central government could co-finance municipal network repair along with the core company, on condition that municipal utility networks are transferred to the local administration. It w-as ranked among the top 10 economies, of 190 economies surveyed, that showed the most improvement in the 2017 Doing Business report (World Bank, 2016).