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Back to the Future for African Infrastructure? Why State-Ownership Is No More Promising the Second Time Around

Nellis, John - 2006

Too many African state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those in infrastructure sectors, have a long history of poor performance. African governments and donors labored through the 1970s and 1980s to improve SOE performance through “commercialization”——i.e., methods short of...

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Agrarian transition in the former Soviet Union Central Asia : stagnation and progress

SPOOR, M. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1997

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Efficiency of French Privatizations:A Dynamic Vision

Alexandre, Hervé; Charreaux, Gérard - Université de Bourgogne - CREGO EA7317 Centre de … - 2001

. A reading of the process of privatization through the corporate governance theory resulted in working out a model making … it possible to take into account, on the one hand, the time dimension of the process of privatization, on the other hand … traditionally to privatizations is not truly confirmed for French privatizations, at least on the horizon considered. Privatization …

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Delayed privatization

Bortolotti, Bernardo; Pinotti, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2008

This paper studies the timing of privatization in 21 major developed economies in the 1977-2002 period. Duration …: privatization is delayed longer in democracies characterized by a larger number of parties and operating under proportional …

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Electricity Reforms in Mali: A Macro–Micro Analysis of the Effects on Poverty and Distribution

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007

This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) microsimulation model to explore the distributional and poverty-related effects of price reform in the electricity sector of Mali, a poor country in West Africa. In the first part of the paper we analyze the distribution of electricity in...

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The Impact on Farmers of the Privatization of Integrated Agricultural Monopsonies

Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2001

International Financial Institutions have advocated the privatization of integrated agricultural monopsonies in … model, this paper shows however that the impact of privatization and contract farming may not be positive for all farmers. …

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Private Control, Competion, and the Performance of Telephone Firms in Less Developed Countries

Viani, Bruno - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 11 (2004) 2, pp. 217-240

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Market Preemption and Entry Deterrence: Evidence from the Golf Course Industry

Shmanske, Stephen - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 11 (2004) 1, pp. 55-68

The population in a given geographical area has to be large enough before the area can support the entry of a golf course. The required amount of population will be higher if costs are higher, or if the underlying demand to golf by residents is lower, or if there is more preexisting competition...

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Control Changes and Firm Performance in Banking

Delfino, Maria Eugenia - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 14 (2007) 2, pp. 261-281

privatization, foreign acquisition of domestic banks and mergers and acquisitions among local institutions. Bank productivity is … privatization had a positive short-term effect on productivity in part as a result of efficiency gains, which were then gradually …

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Beyond Privatization. The second Wage of telecommunications reforms in Mexico.

Wellenius, B.; Staple, G. - World Bank Group - 1996

From 1989 to 1994 the government of Mexico carried out a major restructuring of the telecommunications sector. Telefonos Mexico was privatized, and cellur, value-added and private networks and services were liberalized. In late 1994 the government moved toward further opening up the market, this...

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