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infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. Privatization is one way to …/manufacturing and most infrastructure still remains in state hands. Given prevailing public hostility towards privatization, and …
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was largely abandoned by the IFIs and privatization and private participation in infrastructure, or PPI became the order …
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International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too … little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state …-owned firm. Different government types are compared to identify the political and institutional determinants of privatization …
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This paper examines the restructuring of state assets in markets deregulated by privatizations and investment liberalizations. We show that the government has a stronger incentive to restructure than the buyer: A firm restructuring only takes into account how much its own profit will increase....
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Port public–private partnerships (PPPs) are considered to be an important emerging mechanism for port development and improvement in port performance especially for developing countries. This paper empirically investigates the effect of institutional factors in the success of port’s PPPs;...
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Government, a decentralized agency and a (private or public) manager. In a good governance regime the privatization can be …
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The use of for-profit contracts remains a popular privatization choice for public sector organizations in the United …
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private agenda, regulators risk to be corrupted, and ex post evaluation is costly, government privatization supply is a non … Enterprises for very different reasons. Governments with an intermediate degree of corruption may like privatization, but not … always for good reasons in terms of social welfare. Undesirable privatization occurs when the private benefit/cost ratio of …
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In this study we estimate the social impact of privatisation by means of cost-benefit analysis. It includes assessing the performance of the privatised firm against counterfactual situations and examining economic efficiency at points in time as well as assessing the dynamic efficiency of...
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The Treasury requested tenders for an empirical evaluation of the impact on the New Zealand economy of the privatisation of NZ Rail Limited now Tranz Rail Ltd. Their terms of reference were to: determine the nature and extent of the economic welfare gains andlosses resulting from the...
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