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The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...
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Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …
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In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
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Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002772739
, la corruzione, e affittare la cattura da parte di alcuni gruppi sociali.The proposal to use privatization proceeds in …, the privatization proceeds will only contribute to delaying a fiscal crisis. Moreover, when a government sells its assets …
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Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. After a discussion of recent empirical … literature on this topic, we ask two simple questions: Who are the people most dissatisfied with privatization? and: Why are they … privatization data and macroeconomic variables. The data on country-specific experiences of privatization come from two different …
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This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the "policy reform" theory (Drèze and Stern, 1990). By adopting this...
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British PIPOs (Privatisation Initial Public Offerings) between 1977-1996, i.e. from the first privatisation under a Labour …
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The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606658
privatization in different countries. The discussed effects include: effects on consumers, tax-payers, workers, shareholders; on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960463