this paper studies the paradigmatic case of telecommunications reform in Costa Rica it underscores the importance of these … 'politics of policies'. The analysis finds, however, that the failure of repeated liberalization initiatives was not only due to … policy-makers' errors in steering the project through 'the messy world of politics' (IDB); instead, as liberalization …

; privatization ; telecommunications ; public enterprises ; Costa Rica ; development model ; Inter-American Development Bank … this paper studies the paradigmatic case of telecommunications reform in Costa Rica it underscores the importance of these … 'politics of policies'. The analysis finds, however, that the failure of repeated liberalization initiatives was not only due to …

this paper studies the paradigmatic case of telecommunications reform in Costa Rica it underscores the importance of these … 'politics of policies'. The analysis finds, however, that the failure of repeated liberalization initiatives was not only due to … policy-makers' errors in steering the project through 'the messy world of politics' (IDB); instead, as liberalization …

public provision. What explains this wave of reversals in pension privatization, but also variation in its outcomes …? Proponents of pension privatization had argued that it would boost domestic capital markets and economic growth. By revealing how … pension privatization helped increase sovereign debt and how large a part of pension funds' assets was invested in government …

Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of …-history analysis of the determinants of reform in the telecommunications and electricity sectors of as many as 205 countries and …

The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …

. Political support for liberalization may therefore be limited …