concentration and bidding competition decrease in the privatized sector may have outweighed eventual gains coming from privatization …. On the other hand, the threat that privatization may represent for public unit managers may have stimulated them to … recent privatization are associated with lower costs. Instead, old privatization is not associated with lower costs. …

Privatization became a central element of economic reforms in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1990s …. Yet, empirical evidence regarding the impact of privatization remains scarce. Since the seminal work of CAMPBELL … a time when public opposition to further privatization is growing, this paper aims at giving a broad overview of the …

The transition from a planned to a market oriented economy requires a complex amalgam of stabilization, liberalization … and privatization policies. This paper outlines a combination of policies believed to be necessary, if not sufficient to …

precursor to price liberalization, private property rights must be created, distributed and credibly enforced in order to ensure … adjustment process in order to avoid a crisis of constitutional authority. A program of “Socialist Privatization” is proposed as …

of an egalitarian distribution of income and wealth? I propose a sequential set of stabilization, privatization and … liberalization policies designed to provide the necessary, albeit not sufficient conditions for a transition to a market economy that …