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This book, a third edition, has been significantly expanded and updated. It revisits the process of institutional change: its characteristics, determinants and implications for economic performance. New chapters address the significance of Post-Communist transition, the differences and...
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Telecommunications are increasingly recognized as a key component in the infrastructure of economic development. For many years, there were state-owned monopolies in the telecommunications sector. In transition economies, they were characterized by especially poor performance and high access...
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This significantly expanded and updated edition revisits the process of institutional change: its characteristics, determinants and implications for economic performance. New chapters address the significance of Post-Communist transition; the differences and importance of initial conditions in...
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privatization of state owned enterprises in the transitional economies of Eastern Europe. She counters the assumption that reduction … of the state sector helps to create the basis for a private property system, showing that privatization actually …
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socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy …
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the good and the bad. Backed by real life stories of water privatization in action, author Manuel Schiffler presents a … privatization, from the outright sale of companies to various forms of public-private partnerships. After covering their respective … strengths and weaknesses, it then compares them to purely publicly managed water utilities. The book examines the privatization …
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-- 5. Reforming taxes and customs -- 6. Privatization of state-owned enterprises -- 7. Reforming the energy sector -- 8 …
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This book compares and contrasts the motivations, morality, and effectiveness of space exploration when pursued by private entrepreneurs as opposed to government. The authors advocate market-driven, private initiatives take the lead through enhanced competition and significant resources that can...
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mixed oligopolistic market. The wave of privatization since the 1980s has taken the development of the theory of mixed … change-especially privatization of a public firm-on social welfare, existing studies have not considered the difference in … revisits the question of how privatization affects social welfare by incorporating regional and international interdependency …
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