Privatization And The Crisis Of Agr

Author : Ahmed Munir,Andrew Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351759205

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Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan by Ahmed Munir,Andrew Davidson Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. he public sector plays a dominant international role in the provision of agricultural extension and services. This role has been the subject of much debate. Some argue for extension's privatization, claiming that a market driven system provides the most rational and efficient means of information delivery. Based on extensive empirical research from the Punjab (Pakistan), this volume examines the comparative effectiveness of public and private extension services from the perspective of farmers. It also focuses on information from extension agents about their respective organizations and work environments. In so doing, the book expands and elaborates on the practical considerations of privatization and information delivery. It then broadens out into a discussion of alternative means of extension delivery, focusing on participatory approaches, education theory and pluralism.

Author : Andrew P. Davidson,Munir Ahmad,King's College, London Staff
Publisher : Ashgate Pub Limited
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0754632741

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Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension by Andrew P. Davidson,Munir Ahmad,King's College, London Staff Pdf

"Based on extensive empirical research from the Punjab (Pakistan), this distinctive volume examines the comparative effectiveness of public and private extension services from the perspective of farmers. It also focuses on information from extension agents about their respective organizations and work environments. In so doing, the book expands and elaborates on the practical considerations of privatization and information delivery. It then broadens out into a discussion of alternative means of extension delivery, focusing on participatory approaches, education theory and pluralism."--Jacket.

Author : MUNIR,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138720437

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PRIVATIZATION AND THE CRISIS OF AGR by MUNIR,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1634847768

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Privatization by Anonim Pdf

Chapter One of Privatization: Policies, Developments and Challenges is to discuss the elements that caused the latest and current problems in the European economies and also, the imposed privatization (expropriation of the public wealth), as the remedy. This crisis started from the US and consequently, it was expanded to all economies of the world due to the systemic risk that globalization has induced to the developed and dependent nations. Thus, this European debt crisis is a crisis of capitalism. Chapter Two analyses different factors that may explain the changes in firms performance after privatization in Europe. The final chapter explores how the American-based agro-industrial company Herakles Farm has thoroughly disregarded state and international laws and codes of conduct in the setting up of its contentious oil palm plantation that is largely located in-between protected areas in the ever-green forest of Southwest Cameroon.

Author : Surjit S. Sidhu,Mohinder S. Mudahar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0792357027

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Privatization and Deregulation by Surjit S. Sidhu,Mohinder S. Mudahar Pdf

The contributions in this publication are an outcome of growing concerns around the world about the prevailing inefficiencies in agriculture and agribusiness and the need to improve productivity, profitability, and financial sustainability of agriculture and agribusiness by privatizing state- owned enterprises and eliminating unnecessary government regulations. It is in this context that an international symposium was organized on April 19-30, 1993, to address these policy concerns and thereby to improve the long-term prospects for productive and financially sustainable agriculture and agribusiness development. The policy issues addressed herein were identified in a series of discussions at IFDC and with the authors. The main objectives were to focus on analytical policy issues that accelerate the process of privatization and market deregulation of publicly owned and operated enterprises and to provide necessary operational guidelines for policy reforms. This publication is structured around four main topics: (1) the role of agribusiness in economic development; (2) possible approaches and guidelines for privatization and deregulation of agribusiness; (3)the necessary enabling policy environment for privatization and deregulation; and (4) selected case studies. The views expressed in this publication belong solely to the respective authors and should not be attributed to IFDC, World Bank, or other organizations represented. Readers should keep in mind that when authors refer to `current' or `present' situations, they generally mean 1992/93 unless otherwise specified.

Author : Steven A. Wolf
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1574441043

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Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization by Steven A. Wolf Pdf

The respective roles of public and private sector institutions engaged in development and dissemination of agricultural information are currently undergoing dramatic change. Enhanced incentives, new technologies, and changes in industrial organization are spurring private investment. Simultaneously, political and economic conditions are constraining public agencies' participation in the current information boom. Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization identifies the basis and implications of the ongoing shift from public to private sector control of agricultural information. Privatization of information raises meaningful social, economic, and environmental concerns deserving of immediate attention by analysts, advocates, policy makers, and those with a direct economic stake in agriculture. The objectives of the book are to:

Author : Simon Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134083480

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Privatisation and Financial Collapse in the Nuclear Industry by Simon Taylor Pdf

In this volume Simon Taylor has combined interviews with former executives, regulators and analysts with his own unique insight into the nuclear industry to provide an analysis of the origins of the crisis and the financial and corporate strategies used by British Energy plc.

Author : Andrew Schmitz,Kirby Moulton,Allan Buckwell,Sofia Davidova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401113885

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Privatization of Agriculture in New Market Economies: Lessons from Bulgaria by Andrew Schmitz,Kirby Moulton,Allan Buckwell,Sofia Davidova Pdf

The idea for this book began in Sofia, Bulgaria in September, 1992 when we met to plot a course for our University Affiliations project which had been recently funded by the U.S. Infonnation Agency. We believed that worldng on the book would provide valuable learning experiences for all the cooperators, and that the book itself would make a useful contribution to understanding the economic transition process and its policy implications. We recognized that a project of this nature would require the skills and knowledge of many people. To those 34 additional contributors to this volume, and to the many other friends, colleagues, and experts who gave generous advice, we give our sincerest thanks. We also acknowledge with thanks the support of several organizations to a reality. Much of the that transfonned this book from an idea research reported here was a major part of an educational project funded by the University Affiliations Program of the U.S. Information Agency. The project linked the University of California, Berkeley, Wye College of London University, and the Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Sofia, in a cooperative effort to improve the quality of policy analysis. The research provided hands-on experience necessary for effective teaching in this area.

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745318371

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Water Wars by Vandana Shiva Pdf

"The world's most prominent radical scientist."The GuardianVandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmentalist and campaigner, examines the e~water warse(tm) of the twenty-first century: the aggressive privatization by the multinationals of communal water rights.While drought and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match -- or even surpass -- the oil wars of the twentieth. In Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit, acclaimed author Vandana Shiva sheds light on the activists who are fighting corporate manoeuvres to convert this life-sustaining resource into more gold for the elites.In Water Wars, Shiva uses her remarkable knowledge of science and society to outline the emergence of corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights. Using the international water trade and industrial activities such as damming, mining, and aquafarming as her lens, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they are stripped of rights to a precious common good.Shiva calls for a movement to preserve water access for all, and offers a blueprint for global resistance based on examples of successful campaigns.

Author : June G. Hopps,Demetrius S. Iatridis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313022258

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Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe by June G. Hopps,Demetrius S. Iatridis Pdf

Central and Eastern European countries are facing the transition from central to market systems with different strategies and capacities. As the task of societal transformation is without precedent in world history, the massive economic restructuring has revealed the need for distributive justice and general well-being. As the editors and contributors to this volume point out, the monolithic preoccupation with economic restructuring in a market economics framework is implemented at the expense of social protection and security. In contrast to traditional views of privatization as only an economic or managerial phenomenon, this collection approaches privatization as a broader integrated process of societal transformation. Privatization as defined here consists of integrated processes of societal restructuring that affect sociopolitical, economic, and ideological constructs as well as human and physical capital development, transformation of family structures, market stabilization, and organization of social care. Public policymakers as well as scholars and researchers of contemporary Eastern Europe will find this collection of great interest, and an important challenge to the economic models of privatization which undervalue social costs.

Author : Ivan Szelenyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134674701

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Privatizing the Land by Ivan Szelenyi Pdf

Privatizing the Land provides an overview of reforms in the state socialist agrarian systems, especially during the 1970s and 1980s in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Using empirical evidence, the contributors provide a balanced assessment of how agrarian economies performed in different communist countries. The Soviet and Eastern European experience is contrasted with reforms in China, Vietnam and Cuba to provide the first comprehensive account of agricultural restructuring after the collapse of communism in Europe and Asia.

Author : Sunita Kikeri,John R. Nellis
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Privatizacion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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

Author : Karen Bakker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801467004

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Privatizing Water by Karen Bakker Pdf

Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated—and contested—in large cities in developing countries, where the widespread lack of access to networked water supplies was characterized as a global crisis. In Privatizing Water, Karen Bakker focuses on three questions: Why did privatization emerge as a preferred alternative for managing urban water supply? Can privatization fulfill its proponents' expectations, particularly with respect to water supply to the urban poor? And, given the apparent shortcomings of both privatization and conventional approaches to government provision, what are the alternatives? In answering these questions, Bakker engages with broader debates over the role of the private sector in development, the role of urban communities in the provision of "public" services, and the governance of public goods. She introduces the concept of "governance failure" as a means of exploring the limitations facing both private companies and governments. Critically examining a range of issues—including the transnational struggle over the human right to water, the "commons" as a water-supply-management strategy, and the environmental dimensions of water privatization—Privatizing Water is a balanced exploration of a critical issue that affects billions of people around the world.

Author : Richard Carney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134017256

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Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis by Richard Carney Pdf

Nearly ten years after the Asian Financial Crisis, financial turmoil has reappeared – this time it is ravaging the world's wealthiest countries and dragging the global economy along for the ride. It forces one to reflect on the last major financial crisis to afflict the global economy, and to consider whether there are any similarities, and whether there are any lessons from that crisis that we can apply to the current one. Written by a distinguished group of individuals from government, the private sector, international organizations, and academia, this book provides an overview of developments in the main affected countries during the Asian Financial Crisis, as well as the lessons learned and corrective measures taken at the country, regional, and international levels. Importantly, attention is also paid to the areas where substantial improvements are needed. The current crisis heightens the relevance of these lessons. Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis will be invaluable to those studying international relations, international finance, international economics and East Asian studies.

Author : Ivan Szelenyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134674695

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Privatizing the Land by Ivan Szelenyi Pdf

Privatizing the Land provides an overview of reforms in the state socialist agrarian systems, especially during the 1970s and 1980s in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Using empirical evidence, the contributors provide a balanced assessment of how agrarian economies performed in different communist countries. The Soviet and Eastern European experience is contrasted with reforms in China, Vietnam and Cuba to provide the first comprehensive account of agricultural restructuring after the collapse of communism in Europe and Asia.