Drawing on interviews with planners implementing metropolitan plans for Glasgow, Melbourne and Toronto in 2005 and 2006, this article examines the extent to which planners can effectively plan for social inclusion. It assesses their views in the context of 'actual existing neo-liberalism',...

Sri Lanka's plantation sector was privatized in 1992. By comparing the performance of the State Corporations prior to 1992 and that of the transformed privatized entities post-1992, this paper examines whether the operational efficiency of the sector has improved since privatization using six...