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 …

In the mid-1980s a movement towards privatization and de-regulation of the telecommunications sector was begun. The …

positive effects, and the effects of domestic privatization tend to be larger in countries with a more competitive business …