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Utility privatization and regulation : a fair deal for consumers?

Ugaz, Cecilia (contributor); … - 2003

population, as is the case in many Latin American countries. The authors also address the widespread impact of privatization on …

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Liberalization and its consequences : a comparative perspective on Latin America and Eastern Europe

Love, Joseph LeRoy (contributor); Baer, Werner (contributor) - 2000

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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Privatization and market development : global movements in public policy ideas

Hodge, Graeme A. (contributor) - 2006

This accessible book aims to inform readers interested in assessing privatization and market development concepts on a … international team of contributors, the book traces how privatization concepts have grown in application, and how they have spread … global regulation of markets / George Gilligan -- Conclusions : spreading the privatization family business / Graeme Hodge …

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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record

Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001

The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...

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Successes and failures in regulating and deregulating utilities : evidence from the UK, Europe and the USA

Robinson, Colin (contributor) - 2004

1. The failure of good intentions : the collapse of American telecommunications after six years of Deregulation -- 2. Road networks : efficiency, externalities and consumer choice -- 3. The Enterprise Act : pluses and minuses for competition policy -- 4. Ofcom and light touch regulation -- 5....

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Cross-national appropriation of work systems : Japanese firms in the UK

Saka, Ayse - 2003

The diffusion of work processes across countries through foreign direct investment and technological collaborations is an increasingly important practice in today's global economy. Ayse Saka explores this process both by focusing on the role of actors in appropriating different ways of operating...

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The political economy of macroeconomic policy reform in Latin America : the distributive and institutional context

Wiesner Durán, Eduardo - 2008

Eduardo Wiesner's book makes an important contribution to the understanding of development by blending together the interdependent issues of (i) macroeconomic performance and volatility, (ii) equity and distributive justice, (iii) fiscal deficits and the redistributive effectiveness of social...

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Vanishing growth in Latin America : the late twentieth century experience

Solimano, Andrés (contributor) - 2006

Economic growth in Latin America and the rise of material welfare has lagged behind that of more dynamic areas of the world economy. In a region prone to policy experiments, the policies of the Washington Consensus applied since the 1990s failed to bring sustained growth to most of Latin...

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Economic liberalization, distribution, and poverty : Latin America in the 1990s

Taylor, Lance (contributor); Vos, Rob (contributor); … - 2002

Since the late 1980s, almost all Latin American countries have undergone a series of far-reaching economic reforms, particularly in the areas of financial and capital account liberalization and trade. This book provides a comparative and analytical framework for assessing the impact of these...

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Debt, deficits, and exchange rates : essays on financial interdependence and development

Reisen, Helmut - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development … - 1994

Debt, Deficits and Exchange Rates presents recent work by Helmut Reisen on current international monetary problems in East Asia and Latin America. Written over the last four years, these papers are readily accessible and of immediate policy relevance. The first part is concerned with the debt...

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