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-by-Case Privatization: Lessons for the Russian Federation" that was held in ST.Petersburg, Russia in July 1997. Against the backdrop of … Russia's mass voucher privatization initiative in 1993-94 and the more recent controversial "loans-for-shares" program, the … workshop took place soon after the Russian authorities announced that a case-by-case privatization program would start. …
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Chapter 1 of this paper argues that punlic sector resources in developing countries are insufficient to finance demand for investment in increasingly integrated infrastructure services. Chapter 2 discusses the role of reforms in public enterprises providing infrastructure services. Chapter 3...
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-by-case privatization programs. It identifies the five key steps in case-by-case privatization, describes sale options and the processes for … case-by-case privatization. …
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of the World Bank, examines the promise and challenge of infrastructure privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa, with …
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Countries the world over have launched ambitious privatization programs to improve the efficiency of state enterprises … process is the effect privatization has on labor. Many observers fear that privatization will cause major job losses as new … for privatization. …
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Privatization has been the basic direction of reform in transitional economies. In implementing this process, however …
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From 1989 to 1994 the government of Mexico carried out a major restructuring of the telecommunications sector. Telefonos Mexico was privatized, and cellur, value-added and private networks and services were liberalized. In late 1994 the government moved toward further opening up the market, this...
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, real revenues at the local level in Ukraine have more than halved. This report examines how fiscal resources are distributed and how managers attempt to preserve basic services in the face of such severe fiscal conatrints. We find that -- despite the...
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This study has three main objectives. First, it aims to assess the impact of tobacco excise tax increases over 2012-14 on prices, consumption levels, and tax revenues in Senegal, as well as the response by tobacco companies to such increases. Second, the report models the potential impact of two...
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The postponement of 2012 VAT Law implementation means that the higher tax revenues expected from the measure will be delayed, and additional sources of revenue need to be considered. Model simulations suggest that implementation of the VAT Law starting July 1, 2017 at the originally proposed...
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