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Finland s state-enterprise sector has been larger than in most countries and included several manufacturing companies. These were usually established because of a scarcity of private venture capital, with a mission to contribute to industrialisation. Some companies have now been privatised in a...
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Privatization promotes economic efficiency and growth, thereby reinforcing macroeconomic adjustment. In the short run … impacts and the fiscal implications of privatization. It then reviews various methods of privatization and finds that public …` options for mitigating the social impact of privatization are surveyed, and experiences under adjustment programs reviewed …
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This paper looks at the UK's privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background to the UK's privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at...
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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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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/10014075046
The economic rates of return for utility privatization projects in Argentina are very high, whether or not … most privatization exercises. And how serious a government is about the fair distribution of gains from reform is reflected … of the privatization that Argentina began in 1989 in gas, electricity, telecommunications, and water and sanitation …
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Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners … rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …; instead, infrastructure funds improve performance both in privatization and subsequent acquisitions from non-PE private firms …
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privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity …
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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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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 …
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