The study examined the impact of privatization on economic growth and income inequality in 82 developing countries … between 1991 and 2002. Using the least squares dummy variable (LSDV) approach, we found that privatization did not have a …

politicians may obtain from privatization benefits greater than the present value of the rent from control. Modelling this trade … potential efficiency gains may be limited, privatization reduces the political cost of increasing tariffs and offers to the … politicians the opportunity to gain a new, different rent from the private enterprise. In regulated markets, after privatization …

Social uprisings in response to privatization dynamics in the water sector have triggered widespread debate on the … dispossession," the current process of privatization is understood as a new round of enclosures of the commons, implemented by a … allow for the commodification and privatization of public goods and assets. Using the case of a Mexican irrigation district …

the public, which persist despite ambiguous empirical evidence. It argues that the privatization agenda rests on normative … privatization has on citizenship rights. …

This paper provides an overview of the results of a project that evaluates the distributive impact of privatization in … four Latin America countries. The aim of the project was to estimate the effects of privatization on customers and workers … concerning the privatization process and data sources used for each specific country. All four countries have undergone …

service, the privatization of the telecommunications industry in Peru led to price changes that had an impact on consumer … welfare and that may be correlated with the negative public opinion of the privatization process. …