Showing 39,491 - 39,500 of 39,797
privatization of INA has been one of major strategic decisions of the Croatian society. This has been the most important decision …. INA privatization concept has been defined to meet criteria imposed by the globalization process, or its European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633395
One of the remedies launched in combating corruption in the forest sector is privatization of state forests (and … private forest ownership). We hypothesized that privatization could reduce deforestation through reducing corruption. We found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634221
local governments are being forced into market-based governance regimes of privatization, decentralization and free trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634778
This paper studies the optimal environmental policy in a mixed market when pollution accumulates over time. Specifically, we assume quantity competition between several private firms and one partially privatized firm. The optimal emission tax is shown to be independent of the weight the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635208
Our chapter is organized as follows. Section I comes back to the characteristics of the water sector. It describes some key features that may explain the slow pace of reform and that may also help better understanding characteristics and limits of that process. Then, a historical and global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635242
under-priced, and making it difficult to expand services. The report indicates that although privatization, competitive … privatization to generate widely shared social benefits, infrastructure industries must be thoroughly restructured and able to … sustain competition. Thus restructuring, to introduce competition should be done before privatization, and regulation should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829214
With the help of a peculiar institutional feature of early Romanian privatization, when a group of firms was explicitly … that politicians sheltered large and inefficient firms from privatization, which paid low wages and had high overdue … payments. These results are consistent with minimization of employment losses, even if efficiency enhancement of privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456320
A consensus exists that extension services, if functioning effectively, improve agricultural productivity through providing farmers with information that helps them to optimize their use of limited resources. Variations in management practices and husbandry skills among small farmers in Kenya...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457017
Recent studies of processes of economic reforms testified that realization of liberal school recipes resulted in nonadequate losses. Basing on these studies,the author singles out a number of fundamental mistakes of the neoliberal conception. The neoliberals ignored costs of institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457186
After the rapid and dramatic demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, 15 newly autonomous republics are restructuring their economies after decades of central Communist planning. The three Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia had successful market-oriented economies during more than two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459553