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"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post …-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of … institutional development. In China relatively more estimates suggest that privatization to domestic owners improves the level of …
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"The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so that public subsidies decline. This benefit for...
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"The authors analyze the impact of privatization on the performance of 116 electric utilities in 10 Latin American …
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"Massive privatizations of housing in Europe and Central Asia transition countries have significantly reduced rental tenure choice, threatening to impede residential mobility. Policymakers are intensifying their search for adequate policy responses aimed at broadening tenure choice for more...
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"This paper takes stock of recent privatization trends, examines the extent to which government ownership is still prevalent in developing countries, and summarizes emerging issues for state enterprise reform going forward. Between 1990 and 2003, 120 developing countries carried out nearly 8,000...
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"This paper summarizes the key findings and conclusions of a literature review of small-scale private service providers (SPSPs) of water supply and electricity conducted over a six-month period in 2003. It draws on more than 400 documents-including journals, articles, reports, case studies and...
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"Over the past decade, the Brazilian banking industry has undergone major and deep transformations with several privatizations of state-owned banks, mergers and acquisitions, closing down of troubled banks, entry by foreign banks, and so on. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts...
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the effects of the transformation process on bank performance and efficiency. The authors find that states that were more … had improved performance, while restructured banks did not. "--World Bank web site …
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