Why Do Governments Divest

Author : Alfred Schipke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642566820

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Why Do Governments Divest? by Alfred Schipke Pdf

On an unprecedented scale, nations at all income levels and across the political spectrum have initiated privatization programs over the past twenty years. In the course of this privatization movement, microeconomic efficiency arguments have become the standard justification for the divestment of public assets. This book presents an alternate view and argues that short-term macroeconomic considerations are often the true motive behind privatization programs. Why Do Government Divest? The Macroeconomics of Privatization is a comprehensive treatment of the macroeconomic issues of privatization. In addition to reviewing topics in economic growth and efficiency, this book explores the fiscal, monetary, balance-of-payments, and employment aspects of privatization. Several diverse case studies illustrate how the pursuit of such short-term political objectives can reduce the benefits of privatization.

Author : Alfred Schipke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642566839

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Why Do Governments Divest? by Alfred Schipke Pdf

Author : Mark Cassell
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589013433

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How Governments Privatize by Mark Cassell Pdf

Governments throughout the world confront enormous challenges when divesting. Whether it is poor-performing bank loans in Japan and Korea, military bases in the United States, or real estate in eastern Europe, the challenge of public divestment is more than just a question of how to map a path to economic efficiency. Conventional wisdom in public management and privatization literature says that the execution of such enormous tasks as divestment is typically done poorly, and that the government strategy is likely to be inefficient. Mark Cassell argues that privatization must be understood as a political and administrative puzzle rather than simply an exercise in economic efficiency. This study of two successful divestment agencies — the U.S. Resolution Trust Corporation and the German Treuhandanstalt — presents a complex understanding of the two agencies' performance in privatizing hundreds of billions of dollars of assets following two very different crises, the savings and loan debacle in the United States and unification in Germany. In the U.S., the worst economic problem since the Great Depression forced the government to recreate and reshape private property on an immense scale. In Germany, melding East and West Germany involved converting an entire national economy that employed more than four million people. In each case, unassuming public agencies handled two of the largest public sales of assets in this century. Cassell identifies the importance and effects of managerial structures and of national institutions — legislatures and executives — on the outcomes of the reform efforts. This book will be of interest to those interested in alternatives to traditional public-sector structures, electoral connections to bureaucracies, comparative political economy, and the historic events of the aftermath of the savings and loan crisis and German unification. It is crucial reading for policy and public administration practitioners and scholars alike.

Author : Sunita Kikeri
Publisher : World Bank Group
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1280003812

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Privatization and Labor: What Happens to Workers When Governments Divest? by Sunita Kikeri Pdf

Author : Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 2306 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030113515

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Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education by Walter Leal Filho Pdf

This encyclopedia serves as a tool to support universities across the world to implement sustainable development in higher education in a number of key areas, spread over 5 volumes:1. Policy-making, visioning, structures, management and strategies 2. Teaching, learning and competencies 3. Research and transformation 4. Campus greening, design, operations and carbon impacts5. Students and stakeholders ́ initiatives and involvement The encyclopedia will be of special interest to administrators and managers at higher education institutions; academic staff (e.g. lecturers, professors, researchers); technical staff and students. Also, other groups working outside higher education, but interested on the theory and practice of sustainable development, will find its contents useful.

Author : Ken-Hou Lin,Megan Tobias Neely
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190638313

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Divested by Ken-Hou Lin,Megan Tobias Neely Pdf

Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary Americans. And as finance continues to expand, inequality soars. In Divested, Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely demonstrate why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of big finance. The growth of the financial sector has dramatically transformed the American economy by redistributing resources from workers and families into the hands of owners, executives, and financial professionals. The average American is now divested from a world driven by the maximization of financial profit. Lin and Neely provide systematic evidence to document how the ascendance of finance on Wall Street, Main Street, and among households is a fundamental cause of economic inequality. They argue that finance has reshaped the economy in three important ways. First, the financial sector extracts resources from the economy at large without providing economic benefits to those outside the financial services industry. Second, firms in other economic sectors have become increasingly involved in lending and investing, which weakens the demand for labor and the bargaining power of workers. And third, the escalating consumption of financial products by households shifts risks and uncertainties once shouldered by unions, corporations, and governments onto families. A clear, comprehensive, and convincing account of the forces driving economic inequality in America, Divested warns us that the most damaging consequence of the expanding financial system is not simply recurrent financial crises but a widening social divide between the have and have-nots.

Author : John R. Nellis,Mary M. Shirley
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821321811

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Privatization by John R. Nellis,Mary M. Shirley Pdf

Governance, as defined by the World Bank in its 1992 report, Governance and Development, is the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources for development. The report deemed it is within the Bank's mandate to focus on the following: -the process by which authority is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources -the capacity of governments to design, formulate, and implement policies and discharge functions. Also available: Governance: The World Bank's Experience (ISBN 0-8213-2804-2) Stock No. 12804.

Author : William J. Gole,Paul J. Hilger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470180006

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Corporate Divestitures by William J. Gole,Paul J. Hilger Pdf

Providing practical application of best practices employed in the divestiture process, Corporate Divestitures provides you with detailed guidance on how your corporation should handle a divestiture. It provides a structured approach that emphasizes disciplined execution and illustrative documents and application aids that can be adapted for use in real-world situations.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2294 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : UCBK:C041557941

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The Petroleum Industry by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : PURD:32754077576050

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The Petroleum Industry, S. 2387 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Howard Whitton
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015062439727

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Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector by Howard Whitton Pdf

Conflicts of interest in both the public and private sectors have become a major matter of public concern world-wide. The OECD Guidelines define a conflict of interest as occurring when a public official has private-capacity interests which could improperly influence the performance of their official duties and responsibilities. However, identifying a specific conflict of interest in practice can be difficult. And resolving the conflicting interests appropriately in a particular case is something that most people find even more challenging. The Toolkit focuses on specific techniques, resources and strategies for: Identifying, managing and preventing conflict-of-interest situations more effectively; and Increasing integrity in official decision-making, which might be compromised by a conflict of interest. This Toolkit provides non-technical, practical help to enable officials to recognise problematic situations and help them to ensure that integrity and reputation are not compromised. The tools themselves are provided in generic form. They are based on examples of sound conflict-of-interest policy and practice drawn from various OECD member and non-member countries. They have been designed for adaptation to suit countries with different legal and administrative systems. FURTHER READING: Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service: OECD Guidelines and Country Experiences

Author : Sheila Page
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0389208906

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Trade, Finance and Developing Countries by Sheila Page Pdf

The author presents a detailed analysis of the past performance of a large range of developing countries. They are used to examine the opportunities facing other countries in the 1990s. Analysis of the successes of the Newly Industrialising countries has always emphasized the important role of exports-a view reinforced by the problems faced by those countries who have pursued inward-looking strategies and by the impact of the debt crisis in the 1980s. The author shows how national policies have not simply responded to external opportunities, but have used them and adapted their own strategies to international conditions. She also demonstrates the increasing importance of financing constraints. The reduction in the availability of external finance and the restrictions on the type available places a serious limitation on the choice of trade policies and therefore on industrial and development strategies that can be pursued.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1896 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3602880

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : Harriot Stanton Blatch,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan B. Anthony,Matilda Gage,Ida H. Harper
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 4392 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547811831

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THE HISTORY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated) by Harriot Stanton Blatch,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan B. Anthony,Matilda Gage,Ida H. Harper Pdf

Experience the American feminism in its core. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice. Go back in time and get to know the founders and the followers, the characters of all the strong women involved in the movement. Find out what was the spark which started it all and kept the flame going. Learn about the organization, witness the backdoor conversations and discussions, read their personal correspondence, speeches and planned tactics. Learn about the relationship between great activists and what caused the fraction. See the movement in its full light and learn what it took to obtain most basic civil rights. Know your history! This six volumes edition covers the women's suffrage movement from 1848 to 1922. Originally envisioned as a modest publication that would take only four months to write, it evolved into a work of more than 5700 pages written over a period of 41 years and was completed in 1922, long after the deaths of its visionary authors and editors, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. However, realizing that the project was unlikely to make a profit, Anthony had already bought the rights from the other authors. As a sole owner, she published the books herself and donated many copies to libraries and people of influence. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) was an American suffragist, social reformer and women's rights activist. Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) was a suffragist and daughter of Elizabeth Stanton. Matilda Gage (1826–1898) was a suffragist, a Native American rights activist and an abolitionist. Ida H. Harper (1851–1931) was a prominent figure in the United States women's suffrage movement. She was an American author, journalist and biographer of Susan B. Anthony.

Author : Sunita Kikeri
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821341480

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Privatization and Labor by Sunita Kikeri Pdf

Despite its importance, labor is one of the least addressed issues in privatization. The lack of information on the employment impact of privatization has exacerbated the fears and concerns of governments and workers alike. This paper examines the effects of privatization on labor and analyzes the mechanisms that governments can use to minimize the political and social costs of labor restructuring in privatization, by drawing on the experience of mixed economies.