Constraints And Impacts Of Privatisation

Author : V. V. Ramanadham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134961566

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Constraints and Impacts of Privatisation by V. V. Ramanadham Pdf

This book contains papers on some 25 countries written by experts directly connected with privatisation, either as academics or as policy makers and practitioners, with a comparative review at the end by the editor. It highlights the major factors in the success and the failings of privatisation attempts in different countries in Europe, America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Australasia. In particular there are studies on the evolving experience of transformation to free market economy in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe.

Author : Venkata Vemuri Ramanadham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415098267

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Constraints and Impacts of Privatization by Venkata Vemuri Ramanadham Pdf

This book contains papers on some 25 countries written by experts directly connected with privatisation, either as academics or as policy makers and practitioners, with a comparative review at the end by the editor. It highlights the major factors in the success and the failings of privatisation attempts in different countries in Europe, America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Australasia. In particular there are studies on the evolving experience of transformation to free market economy in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe.

Author : Sunita Kikeri,John R. Nellis
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Privatizacion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Privatization in Competitive Sectors by Sunita Kikeri,John R. Nellis Pdf

Author : Pablo Ghigliani
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electric industry workers
ISBN : 3039119613

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The Politics of Privatisation and Trade Union Mobilisation by Pablo Ghigliani Pdf

This is a comparative study of how workers and their unions respond to privatisation. Drawing upon research from a variety of disciplines, the author examines the push toward privatisation in diverse national settings, its profound impact on organised labour, and the often innovative responses of workers and their unions in the affected industries. By means of a detailed analysis of the privatisation of the electricity industries in the United Kingdom and Argentina, and the various initiatives of workers and their trade unions in these two countries, this book offers an engaging comparative case study that sheds new light on key issues in contemporary labour studies: the strategic choices available to workers and their organisations when faced with the radical restructuring of their industries; the types of resources available to trade unions and how they are mobilised; and the impact of widespread worker unrest on their organisations. This book also provides fresh insight into the use of mobilisation theory in the field of labour studies. The author employs mobilisation theory to make sense of worker and trade union responses to privatisation, and he argues that this theoretical framework can be useful for cross-national comparisons.

Author : Bahaa Ali El-Dean
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004125809

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Privatisation and the Creation of a Market-Based Legal System by Bahaa Ali El-Dean Pdf

This Volume aims to provide an analysis of problems and challenges relating to the creation of a legal infrastructure that meets the needs and capabilities of emerging market economies in the light of the privatisation process.

Author : Anthony Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134699278

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How Does Privatization Work? by Anthony Bennett Pdf

Privatization has been one of the most important elements of public policy in the last decade and there have been massive transfers of ownership from the public to the private sector on a national and international level. This book combines thematic papers with country case studies to discuss the mechanisms which have enabled this to occur, and to assess privatization's mixed achievements. The authors, international academics, practitioners and consultants and the process of privatization is discussed in East Germany, Nigeria, Pakistan, Guyana, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and Great Britain.

Author : V. V. Ramanadham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134814077

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Privatization and Equity by V. V. Ramanadham Pdf

Privatization raises problems of equity, can lead to greater inequality and changes in market structure. These issues are explored across a broad range of countries by contributors who have a wide experience of privatization.

Author : Jeff Tan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134089154

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Privatization in Malaysia by Jeff Tan Pdf

This book explores privatization in Malaysia, focusing in particular on how political constraints resulted in the failure of four major privatizations: the national sewerage company (IWK), Kuala Lumpur Light Rail Transit (LRT), national airline (MAS), and national car company (Proton).

Author : Bueren, Geraldine van
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789231041457

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Freedom from poverty as a human right: law's duty to the poor by Bueren, Geraldine van Pdf

Author : Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556035569946

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Reforming Infrastructure by Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides Pdf

Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.

Author : Herbert Siegel
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781581121971

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Privatizing: A Social Milestone or Millstone? by Herbert Siegel Pdf

When politicians redistribute public wealth by privatizing State-Owned Enterprises ( SOE ), they divest themselves of public accountability, and profoundly affect laws, economics, and social behavior. Data gathered from respondents in twenty-eight countries including lawyers, investment bankers, bureaucrats, and educators, identify beneficiaries and victims of privatizing processes. Results are then explained by statistical analysis, concluding with compensatory arrangements that can humanize privatizing.

Author : Yelena Kalyuzhnova,Wladimir Andreff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230378339

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Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies by Yelena Kalyuzhnova,Wladimir Andreff Pdf

Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies brings together specialists from different areas (governance, regulation, macro-econometrics, micro-econometrics, enterprise culture, foreign direct investment, technology transfer) to focus on the many different aspects of the privatization process in transition economies. The book does not dwell on the administrative or procedural aspects of privatisation. Instead it attempts to understand the bigger picture in terms of underlying policy environment and supporting legal and economic measures which helped to a large extent to determine the eventual success or failure of privatization programmes.

Author : Stephen Martin,David Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134766123

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The Impact of Privatization by Stephen Martin,David Parker Pdf

Are resources allocated more efficiently through private ownership than through the public sector? The experiences of eleven newly privatised companies are examined to evaluate this hypothesis. With the Government's pro-privatization policies in place for over a decade, this is a prime time to evaluate theory versus reality.

Author : Stephen Martin,David Parker
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415142335

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The Impact of Privatisation by Stephen Martin,David Parker Pdf

Over the past decade economic policy in the UK and elsewhere has been guided by the belief that resources are used more efficiently in the private sector than under state ownership. Consequently, many formerly state-owned companies have been transferred to the private sector. After surveying the theoretical arguments for and against this hypothesis, this book examines the experience of eleven firms, including British Airways, Rolls-Royce and British Telecom. Various indicators are used to measure each firm's performance before and after privatisation to assess whether this policy has brought about improvements in efficiency. The first four chapters provide background material for the empirical work that follows. Chapter 1 outlines the theoretical arguments for and against the idea that private ownership will be more efficient than state control. Chapter 2 provides brief histories of the eleven organisations studied and chapter 3 discusses how their performance can be measured. Chapter 4 reviews the literature on the relative efficiency of public and private ownership. Chapter 5 considers the impact of privatisation on each of the eleven firms' labour and total factor productivity growth. Chapter 6 performs a similar analysis using two standard accounting ratios (value-added and the rate of profit). Chapter 7 assesses the impact of privatisation on technical efficiency using data envelopment analysis. In chapter 8 the impact of ownership on employment, wage levels and the distribution of business income is considered. The penultimate chapter discusses the restructuring that has followed each company's move into the private sector, and the final chapter summarises the results.

Author : Paul Cook,Colin H. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Government ownership
ISBN : UCSD:31822029733201

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Privatisation in Developing Countries by Paul Cook,Colin H. Kirkpatrick Pdf

In the last decades of the 20th century, privatization has been a key policy instrument in the move to more market-based economic systems in all parts of the developing world. Privatization, however, has not necessarily been accompanied by an increase in market competition. Many public utilities have been privatized as monopolies and in addition regulatory systems have been developed to restrict their market power and protect the interests of consumers. This volume brings together a collection of papers that provide theoretical and empirical insights into privatization and regulation, as well as policy perspectives in relation to developing countries.