infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. Privatization is one way to …/manufacturing and most infrastructure still remains in state hands. Given prevailing public hostility towards privatization, and …

by privatization processes in which no money was raised (though a surprising number of state-owned firms remain in these … regions). The vast majority of economic studies praise privatization’s positive impact at the level of the firm, as well as … its positive macroeconomic and welfare contributions. Moreover, contrary to popular conception, privatization has not …

In Latin America, privatization started earlier and spread farther and more rapidly than in almost any other part of …, privatization is highly and increasingly unpopular in the region. The core social criticism is that privatization contributes to … studies dilute or counter the negative views, concluding that privatization has contributed only slightly to rising …