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Privatization and the private sector
World Development, 1999Abstract From the perspective of someone who has observed the private and public sectors in emerging economies for many years, it is interesting to recall that in the past it was the World Bank that supported the development of state-owned utilities and industrial enterprises in developing countries, especially Latin America.
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This paper compares the performance of privatized and state firms in the transition economies of Central Europe, while controlling for various forms of selection bias. It argues that privatization has different effects depending on the types of owners to
R. Frydman +3 more
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This paper compares the performance of privatized and state firms in the transition economies of Central Europe, while controlling for various forms of selection bias. It argues that privatization has different effects depending on the types of owners to
R. Frydman +3 more
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Economic Perspectives on Privatization
, 1991Despite being one of the most fundamental issues in political economy, the question of the appropriate boundary between public and private enterprise received relatively little attention in mainstream economic analysis until quite recently. In the 1980s,
J. Vickers, G. Yarrow
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Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 1993
Privatization is never a simple matter of transferring public assets to the private sector, because elected politicians cannot afford to be market dependent. Rather than allowing free entry or free exit from the marketplace, governments offer incentives and impose restrictions in order to meet the political necessities of their moment.
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Privatization is never a simple matter of transferring public assets to the private sector, because elected politicians cannot afford to be market dependent. Rather than allowing free entry or free exit from the marketplace, governments offer incentives and impose restrictions in order to meet the political necessities of their moment.
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Pension Privatization: Evolution of a Paradigm
, 2013From 1981 to 2004, a paradigm shift occurred in pension systems worldwide as more than 30 countries fully or partially replaced their state-administered pay-as-you-go pension systems with ones based on individual, private savings accounts.
Mitchell A. Orenstein
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Privatization and its discontents--the evolving Chinese health care system.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2005In this report, the authors describe the deterioration of China's health care system in the 1980s and 1990s in the context of privatization of the Chinese economy.
D. Blumenthal, W. Hsiao
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Nordic privatization and private healthcare
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2003AbstractThe role of the private sector in public healthcare systems is much debated, but there is little research to inform the debate. In the Nordic countries the extent and type of private sector involvement is largely unknown and the changes and the consequences have not been studied.
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Privatization and Risk Sharing: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China
, 2010We study the share privatization process in China to investigate whether and how the removal of market frictions is associated with efficiency gains. Prior to the reform, domestic A-shares were divided into tradable and non-tradable shares.
Kai Li +3 more
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Vietnam: To Privatize or not to Privatize
1999Abstract : In 1986, the Vietnam leadership realized that the Maoist tradition of social transformation was contributing to the collapse of economic development in their country. Since that time, Vietnam has initiated two reforms, which focus on a market economy instead of a socialistic economy and have already served to boost their labor and capital ...
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Privatization, private equity and executive remuneration: privatizing QinetiQ
Public Money & Management, 2010The process of modernizing the UK's public sector over the past 30 years has relied on significant amounts of privatization. Initially this was controversial, but by the time Labour came to power in 1997 even top secret defence establishments were subjected to selective marketization and sell-offs. This article explores the privatization of part of the
Gil Shidlo, Andrew Massey
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