This article discusses public sector reform in North America and Western Europe. The argument is made that recent … privatization, marketization, and public-private partnerships. These substantially recast public sector industrial relations and led …

Privatization has certainly been one of the main events of the economic and financial history of the 20th century …. Between 1997 and 2004 more than 4,000 privatization operations were carried out in the world, bringing to governments revenues … for over 1,350 US $billion. Western Europe emerges as the most important region, having implemented the greatest number of …