India's recently announced privatization strategy can facilitate a change in the composition of the public sector … description of the SOE sector in India, consider different criteria which can inform the scope and rationale for privatization. It … also highlights takeaways from international experience with privatization, highlights the importance of improved …

Soon after Korea agreed to an IMF-supported program, Seoul Bank and Korea First Bank were nationalized through an … foreign investors. Korea First Bank was sold to foreign investors at the end of 1999. Seoul Bank, however, remained a … government-owned bank, managed by a team of professionals recruited from outside of the traditional banking sector. This paper …

Following a period of privatization and restructuring, commercial banks in Central and Eastern Europe and, more … expansion, assesses future trends, and evaluates its policy implications. It concludes that bank credit to the private sector is …

liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances … over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments' fiscal discipline …? The answer is clearly 'no' for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational f …

pension liabilities during the reform's transition period, a pension privatization reform may transform IPD int …

to prevent and treat corporate and household over-indebtedness, benchmarking those in ASEAN-5, China, India, Japan and …

productivity. The analysis reveals that the link between productivity and bank credit growth is weaker for firms with significant … results suggest that measures to improve governance of public sector banks, potentially including privatization, would help …