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privatization * labour market and industrial policy, including an analysis of wage restraint and cost reduction * the prospects for …
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This book explores the origins, rationale, problems and prospects of the European fiscal policy framework. It provides the reader with a roadmap to EMU's budgetary framework by exploring its theoretical and empirical foundations, uncovering its historical roots and emphasising its supranational...
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wave of privatization, starting in the UK, which made the regulation of monopoly of much greater interest. The discipline …, policymakers and regulators in the study of privatization and regulation … Perspectives, 12 (4), Fall, 133-50 -- Bruno Biais and Enrico Perotti (2002), 'Machiavellian Privatization', American Economic …
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The German state banks - or Landesbanks - are not only some of the largest banks in Germany but are also a dominant force in the international banking sector. These state-owned banks enjoy special privileges and government support which have made them major players in the global arena of banking...
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China's WTO commitments. Drawing on wide-ranging case studies of enterprise reform, Becky Chiu and Mervyn Lewis combine … their extensive experience to give an authoritative account of China's enterprise and bank reform agenda, involving property …. Property rights reform -- 5. Corporate governance reforms -- 6. Financial sector reforms -- 7. Solving the SOE debt problem …
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The essays in this volume describe, analyse and compare the achievements and the failures of societies that adopted market-based economies within a democratic polity after a long period of communist rule (Russia and Eastern Europe) or military authoritarianism (Latin America). Together, they...
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the role of regulation, funding the Universal Service Obligation, postal reform in Europe, Asia and North America, the …. Postal reform -- pt. 6. Accounting and cost …
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, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and …
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Privatization investment funds are the key feature of mass privatization programmes in transitional economies. This … book offers a thorough survey of mass privatization programmes in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia, supported with … extensive empirical analysis. The study of 'top-down' privatization funds in Poland and 'bottom-up' funds in the Czech Republic …
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The challenge to manage the allocation of water efficiently and equably will become a dominant theme of the new millennium. At a time when the cost of obtaining fresh water is rising throughout the globe, Terence Lee analyses the means for establishing and operating effective water markets. He...
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