The paper concludes that although both in Brazil and India, the objective of the telecom regulatory policies was to … bring in privatization and competition, the variations in models followed by the two countries had led to sectoral outcomes …

government. It examines national privatization initiatives in the 1990s in India and Brazil in the fields of electricity and …This paper questions when and why state governments oppose (or support) privatization programs initiated by the central … benefits from privatization between the two levels of government. We find that reason #3, real conflict of interests, best …