"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 … privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and vary across regions, coinciding with differences in policies and …

East and North Africa-Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. They highlight various channels through which public infrastructure may … public infrastructure has both "flow" and "stock" effects on private investment in Egypt, but only a "stock" effect in Jordan … fundamental market failures. This will entail privatization and greater involvement of the private sector in infrastructure …

affected by many of the sources of the high costs of doing business in Egypt. While the Egyptian firms are not very highly …