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  • 1
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (47 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Engel, Eduardo Managing the Fiscal Risks Wrought by Ppps: A Simple Framework and Some Lessons from Chile
    Keywords: Concessionaires ; Fixed Term Infrastructure Contract ; Information and Communication Technologies ; Infrastructure Concession ; Infrastructure Economics and Finance ; Infrastructure Finance ; Infrastructure Financing ; Infrastructure Investment Risk Assessment ; PPP Funding ; Private Investment ; Private Participation in Infrastructure ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Infrastructure ; Public Private Partnership Assessment ; Rate of Return on Infrastructure ; Variable Term Infrastructure Contract
    Abstract: Public-private partnerships are used to procure public infrastructure. Despite involving private investors and concessionaires, they impact the public budget like traditional provision and create fiscal risks. This paper develops a conceptual framework to assess whether and how public-private partnerships shift risks to concessionaires and financiers. It uses this framework to describe and assess the Chilean public-private partnerships program. The paper identifies renegotiations as the major source of fiscal risk, which involved additional investments, increasing the cost by about one-third over the original project cost estimates. The 2010 law reform on public-private partnerships introduced changes to the renegotiations regime and began the routine use of variable term contracts. Using contractual data, the analysis finds evidence suggesting that renegotiations fell dramatically. The paper also calculates the realized internal rates of return for 50 highway and airport public-private partnerships, using cash flow data for the entire public-private partnerships program, which started in 1991. The average internal rate of return is 6.8 percent, with averages of 9.1 and 3.1 percent for fixed and variable term public-private partnerships, respectively. The returns show a large dispersion, which suggests that infrastructure projects are intrinsically risky and private participation entails significant risk shifting from the budget to concessionaires and financiers
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (68 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Babasyan, Davit Late Banking Transitions: Comparing Uzbekistan to Earlier Reformers
    Keywords: Banking Reform ; Banking Transition ; Competitiveness and Competition Policy ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Intermediation ; Financial Sector Privatization ; Former Transition Economies ; Governance ; Medium Term Banking Reform ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Financial Management Reforms ; Transition To Market Economy
    Abstract: Uzbekistan is one of the late transition economies. This paper compares the early experience and challenges that Uzbekistan confronts in transitioning its banking system to market principles against the earlier experience with banking transitions from Poland, Russia, and Vietnam, and other relevant evidence from the literature. To that effect, the paper uses new data on Uzbekistan's banking sector, the data on past transition economies, and qualitative and quantitative evidence from the literature. Uzbekistan's latest experience with banking transition generates important lessons for countries that have yet to transition. Namely, how much can a new transitioning country reasonably expect to accomplish within the medium term Which banking reforms are the most essential and how should they best be sequenced How can expectations about efficient capital reallocation be managed, access to finance made more equitable, and transition risks of financial instability be mitigated What are the complementary reforms in the real sector, especially of state-owned enterprises and the competition framework, that need to happen in tandem for the new banking market to function properly?
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  • 3
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Investment Climate Assessment
    Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment ; Infrastructure Economics and Finance ; Investment Climate ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Private Participation in Infrastructure ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization
    Abstract: The development of a new foreign direct investment (FDI) strategy for Uzbekistan comes at an important moment to support Uzbekistan's new development objectives. The report provides core inputs and elements for the government of Uzbekistan to develop a new FDI strategy and roadmap to unlock new sources of growth. It leverages an assessment of Uzbekistan's historical FDI performance and policy context and provides an analysis of current megatrends affecting the global landscape for FDI to identify sectors with high growth potential for FDI attraction in Uzbekistan. It articulates a vision and specific objectives related to FDI attraction for Uzbekistan and presents explicit, quantifiable objectives and targets to help maximize the contribution of FDI to Uzbekistan's overall economic development goals. It considers relevant historical FDI trends as well as regional and global FDI trends and provides in-depth analysis of the feasibility and desirability of key sectors for FDI attraction that were selected with guidance from the government. To support effective implementation, the presented strategy should be underpinned by a detailed reform action plan and roadmap and a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework that can be applied by the government to monitor progress with implementing the FDI strategy
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781478018933 , 9781478016298
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiv, 287 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Experimental futures
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Abadía-Barrero, César Health in ruins
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Abadía-Barrero, César Health in Ruins
    DDC: 362.1109861
    Keywords: Hospital San Juan de Dios (Bogotá, Colombia) ; Gesundheitsversorgung ; Krankenhaus ; Privatisierung ; Wirtschaftsliberalismus ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Kritik ; Kolumbien ; Medical care ; Public health ; Privatization ; Hospitals Maternity services ; Maternal health services ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; HISTORY / Latin America / South America
    Abstract: Timeline: People, infrastructures, and events -- The National University Escuela -- Clinical social medicine -- Religion and caring in a medical setting -- Hospital budgets before and after neoliberalism -- Violence and resistance -- Remaining amidst destruction -- Learning and practicing medicine in a for-profit system -- Medicine as political imagination.
    Abstract: "In Health in Ruins César E. Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno-Colombia's oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital-over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal health policy, Abadía-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and after privatization. He argues that health care privatization not only is about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge western medicine. Despite radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized system, El Materno's professors, staff, and students continued to find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and non-commodified health care. By tracking the violences, conflicts, hopes, and uncertainties that characterized the struggles to keep El Materno open, Abadía-Barrero demonstrates that any study of medical care needs to be embedded in larger political histories."
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9783031046285
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 328 p. 54 illus., 33 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Competitive Government: Public Private Partnerships
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
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    Keywords: Public administration. ; Finance, Public. ; Transportation. ; Political science. ; Comparative government. ; Public Private Partnerships (PPP) ; Transportation ; Risk & Uncertainty ; Funding ; Pricing ; Contracting ; Renegotiation ; Privatization ; Regulation ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1: P3 in Transportation-Roads, Bridges and Parking- An Overview -- Chapter 2: Spanish Toll Road PPPs in Financial Distress: lessons learned from the Strategic Behavior of Stakeholders -- Chapter 3: Risk Allocation and White Elephants in PPP in Spain -- Chapter 4: PPPs in the Mexico Road Sector -- Chapter 5: PPPs in Columbia-Policy Lessons -- Chapter 6: PPPs in India- A Study of Two urban Road projects -- Chapter 7: Lessons from Indian National Highway Public Private Partnerships -- Chapter 8: PPP Lessons from Italy’s Morandi Bridge Collapse -- Chapter 9: Applying Performance Measurement System in European PPP Road Projects -- Chapter 10: Highway Infrastructure Delivery Through Government Finance and PPPs -- Chapter 11: EU Financial Backing to Hybrid Transport PPPs -- Chapter 12: Highway Public-Private Partnership Projects in the United States -- Chapter 13: Case Studies of Financially Distressed Highways in the United States -- Chapter 14: State PPP Laws: Why Are They Needed -- Chapter 15: An Alternative Approach to Funding Parking Structures -- Chapter 16: PPPs in the Transportation Sector: Policy Implications -- Index.
    Abstract: Second in a two-volume set, this book discusses the role of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in global transportation infrastructure, specifically focusing on roads, bridges, and parking. To provide vital services in an era of shrinking government budgets, public-private partnerships have become an increasingly important part of travel infrastructure worldwide. This book describes and analyses the structure of various models of PPPs in several countries, evaluating their effectiveness, and drawing policy implications for future use. The chapters were written by leading international researchers and practitioners in the transportation field where each chapter is a case study on the adoption, implementation, and outcome of transportation services. Taken together, these diverse case studies provide an integrated framework for evaluating, using PPPs, and suggesting policy implications to both the public and the private sectors in transportation. Providing rigorous empirical analysis of PPPs in transportation, this volume will be of interest to researchers in public administration, political science, public choice, and economics as well as practitioners and policymakers involved in establishing and monitoring PPPs in transportation.
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  • 6
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    Austin : University of Texas Press
    ISBN: 9780292795587
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
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    Keywords: Contracting out ; Contracting out ; Cultural property Government policy ; Cultural property Government policy ; Cultural property Protection ; Cultural property Protection ; Mayas Ethnic identity ; Mayas Government relations ; Mayas Ethnic identity ; Mayas Government relations ; Privatization ; Privatization ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The Ambivalence of Heritage -- Chapter One A new approach to heritage -- Chapter Two Cartographies of patrimony -- Part II “Maya Archaeology as the Mayas See It” -- Introduction -- Chapter Three Chichén Itzá: A century of privatization -- Chapter Four By blood or by sweat: Shaping rights to world heritage -- Chapter Five Chunchucmil: Ambivalence in a heritage landscape -- Chapter Six. Archaeology, ejidos, and space-claiming techniques -- Conclusion Docile descendants and illegitimate heirs: The ambivalence of inheritance -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Abstract: From ancient Maya cities in Mexico and Central America to the Taj Mahal in India, cultural heritage sites around the world are being drawn into the wave of privatization that has already swept through such economic sectors as telecommunications, transportation, and utilities. As nation-states decide they can no longer afford to maintain cultural properties—or find it economically advantageous not to do so in the globalizing economy—private actors are stepping in to excavate, conserve, interpret, and represent archaeological and historical sites. But what are the ramifications when a multinational corporation, or even an indigenous village, owns a piece of national patrimony which holds cultural and perhaps sacred meaning for all the country's people, as well as for visitors from the rest of the world? In this ambitious book, Lisa Breglia investigates "heritage" as an arena in which a variety of private and public actors compete for the right to benefit, economically and otherwise, from controlling cultural patrimony. She presents ethnographic case studies of two archaeological sites in the Yucatán Peninsula—Chichén Itzá and Chunchucmil and their surrounding modern communities—to demonstrate how indigenous landholders, foreign archaeologists, and the Mexican state use heritage properties to position themselves as legitimate "heirs" and beneficiaries of Mexican national patrimony. Breglia's research masterfully describes the "monumental ambivalence" that results when local residents, excavation laborers, site managers, and state agencies all enact their claims to cultural patrimony. Her findings make it clear that informal and partial privatizations—which go on quietly and continually—are as real a threat to a nation's heritage as the prospect of fast-food restaurants and shopping centers in the ruins of a sacred site
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
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  • 7
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    London, England : Zed Books | [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing
    ISBN: 9781350223349
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Indigenous peoples / Social conditions ; Indigenous peoples / Economic conditions ; Indigenous peoples / Government relations ; International law ; Culture and globalization ; Privatization ; World politics / 21st century ; Competition, International ; Globalization ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Also published in print , Mode of access: World Wide Web , English
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  • 8
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    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
    ISBN: 9789462980068 , 9789048529193
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Protest and social movements
    DDC: 302.2/3
    Keywords: Privatization ; Water-supply ; Social media Political aspects ; Internet and activism
    Abstract: This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, this book examines how a technological evolution-the increased relevance of social media platforms-affected in very different ways organisations with divergent characteristics, promoting at the same time decentralised communication practices, and new ways of coordinating dispersed communities of people. Matteo Cernison combines and adapts a wide set of methods, from social network analysis to digital ethnography, in order to explore in detail how digital activism and face-to-face initiatives interact and overlap. He argues that the geographical scale of actions, the role played by external media professionals, and the activists' perceptions of digital technologies are key elements that contribute in a significant way to shape the very different communication practices often described as online activism.
    Note: Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE , Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-238) and index
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  • 9
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    New York : New York University Press | [Baden-Baden] : [Nomos]
    ISBN: 9781479842933 , 9783848759231
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 328 Seiten
    Series Statement: Nomos 60
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    DDC: 338.9/25
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    Keywords: Privatisierung ; Privatization ; Konferenzschrift 2016 ; Öffentliches Unternehmen ; Privatisierung
    Note: "This volume emerged from papers and commentaries given at the annual meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for American Law Schools in New York, NY, on January 6, 2016. Our topic, "Privatization," was selected by the Society's membership" (Preface) , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 10
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | New York : JSTOR
    ISBN: 9789048529193 , 9048529190
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Protest and social movements
    DDC: 302.2/3
    Keywords: Internet and activism ; Social media Political aspects ; Water-supply ; Privatization ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Internet and activism ; Privatization ; Social media Political aspects ; Water-supply ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, this book examines how a technological evolution - the increased relevance of social media platforms - affected in very different ways organisations with divergent characteristics, promoting at the same time decentralised communication practices, and new ways of coordinating dispersed communities of people.0Matteo Cernison combines and adapts a wide set of methods, from social network analysis to digital ethnography, in order to explore in detail how digital activism and face-to-face initiatives interact and overlap. He argues that the geographical scale of actions, the role played by external media professionals, and the activists' perceptions of digital technologies are key elements that contribute in a significant way to shape the very different communication practices often described as online activism.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781760462307 , 1760462314 , 1760462306 , 1760462314 , 9781760462307 , 9781760462314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 172 pages)
    Series Statement: ANZSOG monograph series
    DDC: 388.114
    Keywords: Toll roads Economic aspects ; Privatization ; Transportation Planning ; Roads Finance ; Land use Government policy ; Toll roads ; Privatization ; Transportation ; Roads ; Land use ; Electronic books ; Transportation ; Planning ; Australia ; Land use ; Government policy ; Privatization ; Roads ; Finance ; Toll roads ; Economic aspects
    Abstract: Road pricing is not a new concept - toll roads have existed in Australia since Governor Macquarie established one from Sydney to Parramatta in 1811 - and distance-based charging schemes have been trialled and implemented with varying success overseas. But how would full market reform of roads look in a federation like Australia? In its responses to the 2016 Australian Infrastructure Plan and the 2015 Competition Policy Review, the Australian Government explicitly supported investigating cost-reflective road pricing as a long-term reform option, and has committed to establishing a study chaired by an eminent Australian to look into the potential impacts of road pricing reform on road users. The challenges we face in this space are manifold and complex, and we still have a long road ahead of us. However, with advocacy for reform coming from interest groups as diverse as governments, private transport companies, peak industry bodies, policy think tanks and state motoring clubs, there is now more support than ever before for changing the way we provide for and fund our roads. This book seeks to advance the road reform agenda by presenting some of the latest thinking on road pricing and provision from a variety of disciplinary approaches - researchers, economists and public sector leaders. It stresses the need for reform to ensure Australians can enjoy the benefits of efficient and sustainable transport infrastructure as our population and major metropolitan cities continue to grow. Traffic congestion is avoidable, but we must act soon. The works presented here all point to the need for change - the expertise and the technology are available, and the various reform options have been mapped out in some detail. It is time for the policy debate to shift to how, rather than if, road reform should progress
    Abstract: Road pricing is not a new concept - toll roads have existed in Australia since Governor Macquarie established one from Sydney to Parramatta in 1811 - and distance-based charging schemes have been trialled and implemented with varying success overseas. But how would full market reform of roads look in a federation like Australia? In its responses to the 2016 Australian Infrastructure Plan and the 2015 Competition Policy Review, the Australian Government explicitly supported investigating cost-reflective road pricing as a long-term reform option, and has committed to establishing a study chaired by an eminent Australian to look into the potential impacts of road pricing reform on road users. The challenges we face in this space are manifold and complex, and we still have a long road ahead of us. However, with advocacy for reform coming from interest groups as diverse as governments, private transport companies, peak industry bodies, policy think tanks and state motoring clubs, there is now more support than ever before for changing the way we provide for and fund our roads. This book seeks to advance the road reform agenda by presenting some of the latest thinking on road pricing and provision from a variety of disciplinary approaches - researchers, economists and public sector leaders. It stresses the need for reform to ensure Australians can enjoy the benefits of efficient and sustainable transport infrastructure as our population and major metropolitan cities continue to grow. Traffic congestion is avoidable, but we must act soon. The works presented here all point to the need for change - the expertise and the technology are available, and the various reform options have been mapped out in some detail. It is time for the policy debate to shift to how, rather than if, road reform should progress
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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  • 12
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    Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield
    ISBN: 9781442274471 , 9781442274488 , 9781442274495
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 299 Seiten , Ilustrationen, Diagramme , 23 cm
    Series Statement: Latin American perspectives in the classroom
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    DDC: 307.76098
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    Keywords: Cities and towns ; Urban economics ; Rural-urban relations ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Land reform ; Privatization ; Latin America ; Electronic books ; Latin America Economic conditions ; Regional disparities ; Lateinamerika ; Verstädterung ; Neoliberalismus ; Soziale Situation ; Soziale Ungleichheit
    Abstract: Introduction to urban Latin America / Tom Angotti -- Poverty and informality in Latin American cities / Alan Gilbert -- They are not informal settlements : they are habitats made by people / Lorena Zárate -- Global peripheral cities / Erminia Maricato -- São Paolo : city of industry, misery and resistance / William Goldsmith and Rogerio Acca -- Mexico City : globalization, governance, and citizen resistance in the transformation of downtown Mexico City / Diane Davis -- Neoliberal housing policies in Mexico / Alfonso Valenzuela -- Participatory budgeting in Latin American cities / Benjamin Goldfrank -- Medellín : an "urban miracle"? / Tobias Franz -- Bogotá's transmilenio : conflict and convergence between experts and citizens / Stacy Hunt -- The political economy of a global suburb in Rio de Janeiro / Lawrence A. Herzog -- Housing and urbanization in the Cuban revolution / Jill Hamberg -- Uruguay's housing cooperatives : alternative to the private market / Tom Angotti -- Citizenship, democracy and public space / Clara Irazábal -- Luchas contra la descalificación territorial en Santiago de Chile / Nicolas Angélcos and Maria Luisa Méndez -- The cultural politics of lead poisoning in Montevideo, Uruguay / Daniel Renfrew
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 253 - 284
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781785369551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 288 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar books
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Public or private goods?
    DDC: 338.9/25
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    Keywords: Öffentliche Güter ; Privatisierung ; Staatliche Einflussnahme ; Öffentlicher Auftrag ; Welt ; Privatization Social aspects ; Privatization Moral and ethical aspects ; Privatization ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Öffentliches Gut ; Privatisierung
    Abstract: Contents: Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Value based demarcation between the public and the private domain / Klaas van Egmond -- Part I: Traditional core tasks of the state: security -- 3. The fight against money laundering: a public task? / Joras Ferwerda -- 4. Natural disasters and (future) government debt / Ian Koetsier -- Part II: New core tasks: social security -- 5. Multiple pillars: objectives, risks and diversification options / Ian Koetsier -- 6. Pension provision: (still) a public task? / Florian Blank -- 7. Protection against unemployment - a res publica / Brigitte Unger -- 8. More health care or more beer? -a curious paradox of making some economic tasks a res publica / Frans van Waarden -- 9. ECEC: childcare markets in the Netherlands and England / Trudie Knijn and Jane Lewis -- Part III: Public goods -- 10. Housing policy and spatial inequality: recent insights from Vienna and Amsterdam / Gerlinde Gutheil-Knopp-Kirchwald and Justin Kadi -- 11. Funding of protected areas: a purely public task? / Grazia Bonvissuto -- 12. The government's role in conserving and financing cultural institutions / Michael Getzner -- 13. The income distribution as a public task: the redistributive preferences of (mis)informed voters / Daan van der Linde -- 14. Conclusions -- Index.
    Abstract: Legitimized by the arguments of efficiency gains, public housing, pensions, unemployment insurance and health care are all being gradually privatized. In many countries, even the state's 'night-watchmen' role of providing security is offered by private prisons and security guards. In the face of these and other developments, this book argues that on the basis of efficiency, morality and equality there is still an overwhelming need for public intervention - the res publica. Public or Private Goods? brings together leading scholars from various disciplines including economics, sociology, political science, geography and spatial planning. The book explores core public tasks that the state has traditionally provided but which are increasingly privatized and subsumed into the private sector. For example, although the state still funds and regulates core domains, it provides fewer and fewer visible goods. The authors show how this apparent invisibility of the state presents serious challenges for both income equality and democracy. This thoughtful interdisciplinary book will appeal to advanced students and academics in political science, public sector economics and public finance. It will also provide stimulating reading for politicians, policymakers and anyone interested in the provision of public services
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    Manchester : Manchester University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780719087301 , 9781526129376
    Language: English
    DDC: 303.69
    Keywords: Politics & government ; Political Science ; political violence ; conflict zones ; peacebuilding ; conflict ; conflict resolution ; peace studies ; war economies ; policy making ; conflict-areas ; development ; security ; Kosovo ; Liberalism ; Organized crime ; Privatization
    Abstract: This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. It offers a new framework for understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones as well as programmes aimed at managing these and transforming them into more peaceful economic and political relationships. Through this examination, both the problems of liberal modes of peacebuilding, implemented by the development-security industry, and opportunities for policy innovation are explored. Useful charts and frameworks throughout the book provide the reader with a range of analytical tools that can be easily used to explore war economies and related policies in a range of contexts, making this book an essential read for students, policy makers and aid practitioners working in a range of disciplines and conflict-affected areas.
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  • 15
    ISBN: 3037771216 , 9783037771211
    Language: German , English
    Pages: 209 S. , Ill., graph. Darst. , 225 mm x 155 mm
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    Keywords: Power (Social sciences) ; Privatization ; Equality ; Welfare state ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Nichtstaatlicher Akteur ; Macht ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Akteur
    Note: Text überw. dt., teilw. engl , Literaturangaben , Enth. 11 Beitr. - Autorenverz. S. 205 - 209
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : New York Univ. Press
    ISBN: 9780814770313 , 9780814724910
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 299 S. , Ill., Kt. , 24 cm
    DDC: 362.1097295
    Keywords: Gesundheitsreform ; Gesundheitswesen ; Privatisierung ; Gesundheitsversorgung ; Integrierte Versorgung ; Puerto Rico ; Medical care ; Medical policy ; Health care reform ; Privatization
    Abstract: In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan goes to work at an HMO and records what it's really like to manage care. Set at a health insurance company dubbed Acme, this book chronicles how the privatization of the health care system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of accessing and providing care on the island. Through interviews and participant observation, the book explores the everyday contexts in which market reforms were enacted. It follows privatization into the compliance department of a managed care organization, through the visits of federal auditors to a health plan, and into the homes of health plan members who recount their experiences navigating the new managed care system.In the 1990s and early 2000s, policymakers in Puerto Rico sold off most of the island's public health facilities and enrolled the poor, elderly and disabled into for-profit managed care plans. These reforms were supposed to promote efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and high quality care. Despite the optimistic promises of market-based reforms, the system became more expensive, not more efficient; patients rarely behaved as the expected health-maximizing information processing consumers; and care became more chaotic and difficult to access. Citizens continued to look to the state to provide health services for the poor, disabled, and elderly. This book argues that pro-market reforms failed to deliver on many of their promises.The health care system in Puerto Rico was dramatically transformed, just not according to plan.
    Abstract: "In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan goes to work at an HMO and records what it's really like to manage care. Set at a health insurance company dubbed Acme, this book chronicles how the privatization of the health care system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of accessing and providing care on the island. Through interviews and participant observation, the book explores the everyday contexts in which market reforms were enacted. It follows privatization into the compliance department of a managed care organization, through the visits of federal auditors to a health plan, and into the homes of health plan members who recount their experiences navigating the new managed care system.In the 1990s and early 2000s, policymakers in Puerto Rico sold off most of the island's public health facilities and enrolled the poor, elderly and disabled into for-profit managed care plans. These reforms were supposed to promote efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and high quality care. Despite the optimistic promises of market-based reforms, the system became more expensive, not more efficient; patients rarely behaved as the expected health-maximizing information processing consumers; and care became more chaotic and difficult to access. Citizens continued to look to the state to provide health services for the poor, disabled, and elderly. This book argues that pro-market reforms failed to deliver on many of their promises.The health care system in Puerto Rico was dramatically transformed, just not according to plan"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-294) and index
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    London : Zed Books
    ISBN: 9781848130753
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Stewart-Harawira, Makere The New Imperial Order : Indigenous Responses to Globalization
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Culture and globalization ; Indigenous peoples -- Economic conditions ; Indigenous peoples -- Government relations ; Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions ; International law ; Privatization ; World politics -- 21st century
    Abstract: A sustained critique of the global political economy from an indigenous scholar
    Abstract: Intro -- Critical praise for this book -- About this book -- About the author -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- A World in Crisis -- Empire Reborn? -- Globalization - Its Promise … -- … And Failure -- Conceptualizing Globalization -- Political Economy of World Order -- Hegemony and World Order -- The Regionalization Debate -- Globalization and the State -- Indigenous Peoples and World Order -- Crisis and Transformation -- Issues of Research and Methodology -- Spiral as Metaphor -- Notes -- CHAPTER 1 Of Order and Being -- Ontology and Being -- The Nature of Knowledge -- The Nature of Existence -- The Nature of Relationships -- Modernity and the Attack on Nature and Holism -- The Hermeneutic Mode -- Critical Hermeneutics and the Transformative Spiral -- Notes -- CHAPTER 2 Indigenous Peoples and the World Order of Sovereign States -- International Law, Indigenous Nations and Imperialism -- Territorialization, Ecological Imperialism and the Taxonomizing of the World -- Governmentality, the State and the Political Economyof Exclusion -- Cultural Space, Populations and the Economy -- State Sovereignty and the Problem of Government -- Liberal Internationalism, Self-determination and theDoctrine of Wardship -- The Subjugation of Indigenous Knowledge and theConstruction of Populations -- Education as a Technology of Domination … -- … And a Site of Resistance -- Notes -- CHAPTER 3 Shaping the Liberal International Order -- Transnational Networks and the Expansion of Capitalism -- Contested States, United Nations -- Bretton Woods and the American Agenda -- Constructing the Institutions of an International Economic Order -- Academic Networks and Neoliberal Economics -- Decolonization and the Construction of States -- Subaltern Nations and the Ideology of Development -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4 Contested Sites
    Abstract: Self-Determination in International Law -- The Post-Second World War Decolonization Programme -- Developing International Human Rights Law -- State Sovereignty and the Right to Self-Determination -- Human Rights and Indigenous Self-Determination -- Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena -- New Mechanisms in International Law -- Indigenous Sovereignty and Developmentalism -- Notes -- CHAPTER 5 Global Hegemony and the Construction of World Government -- The Third World Challenge to Transatlantic Fordism -- The Counter-Response by Industrialized Countries -- The Emergence of Neoliberalism -- Remoulding World Order -- The Reconstitution of Democracy -- Reform of the International System -- Discourses of Limits -- Bretton Woods Institutions and the Disciplining of States -- Undermining the United Nations -- The Shift to Global Imperialism -- CHAPTER 6 Globalization, Regionalism and the Neoliberal State -- New Regionalism and the Postmodern State -- Regionalism and Hegemony in the Asia-Pacific -- Transforming the Keynesian Welfare State: Neoliberalism in New Zealand -- Indigenous Resistance and the Response of theNeoliberal State -- Reconstructing Indigenous Subjectivities -- The Nisga'a Treaty Settlement: Extinguished Rights -- The Ngai Tahu Treaty Settlement: Contested Histories,Reconstructed Identities -- Traditional Values for Alternative Models -- Notes -- CHAPTER 7 Global Governance and the Return of Empire -- The Economic Architecture of Global Governance -- The Internationalization of Trade: Implications for State Sovereignty -- Decision Making and Dispute Resolution -- Trading in Services -- Trading in Knowledge and Property Rights -- Indigenous Peoples and the Intellectual Property Rights Regime -- Human Rights versus the Rights of Property -- Reconstructing Difference -- Societies of Control
    Abstract: The Return of the 'Just War' and the Pre-emptive Strike -- Full Spectrum Dominance: Space, the Global Frontier -- The Return to Empire: Two Perspectives -- Globalization from Below: Resistance and Transformation -- Notes -- CONCLUSION The Spiral Turns -- The Crisis of Global Order -- Alternatives to Empire -- Indigenous Ontologies and Global Order -- The Transformative Spiral -- Notes -- EPILOGUE Writing as Politics -- Of Existence and Being -- INDEX
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    ISBN: 9780821396605 , 9780821397008
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (p. cm)
    Edition: 2015 World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 363.6098
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Privatization ; Public utilities Government policy ; Public utilities Government policy ; Public utilities ; Public utilities ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Privatization ; Public utilities Government policy ; Public utilities Government policy ; Public utilities ; Public utilities ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Privatization ; Public utilities ; Public utilities ; Public utilities ; Public utilities
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Hamburger Edition
    ISBN: 3868545204 , 9783868545203
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (PDF, 552 KB, 130 S.)
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.094
    Keywords: Sociology ; Privatization ; Socialism and society ; Politik # Gesellschaft ; Politik # Sonstiges ; Politik # Staat / Verfassung ; Social stratification ; Europe Politics and government ; Europe Social conditions
    Abstract: Gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit, die Frage nach dem Oben und dem Unten, nach dem Zentrum und der Peripherie des Sozialen ist auf die Tagesordnung der öffentlichen Rede über den Zustand und die Zukunft unseres Gemeinwesens zurückgekehrt. Politik und Publizistik werfen einen Blick auf die bedrängten und besorgten Mittelschichten, auf das »abgehängte Prekariat« und die deklassierten Randlagen, aber auch die Verantwortung und Solidarbereitschaft der Oberklasse wird unter dem Stichwort »Reichensteuer« zum Thema. Diese Auseinandersetzung mit der Verschärfung sozialer Ungleichheiten wird von der Debatte um die Zukunft des Wohlfahrtsstaates, seiner Institutionen und Sicherungssysteme, seiner Infrastrukturen und Vorsorgeeinrichtungen umrahmt. Mag einem Gutteil der Gesellschaftswissenschaften der Staat im Laufe der Jahre aus dem Blick geraten sein, der Gesellschaft ist der Staat jedenfalls nicht abhanden gekommen. Staatliches Handeln berührt auf politischem und ordnet auf rechtlichem Weg die vielfältige Lebenswirklichkeit weiter Kreise der Bevölkerung. Die institutionelle Architektur, die finanzielle Ausstattung und die normative Kraft des Staates haben sich fraglos in grundlegender Weise verändert. Doch der Wohlfahrtsstaat als ein formativer sozialer Prozess, der Ungleichheiten schafft, ordnet und dämpft, hat an mentaler und struktureller Präsenz nicht verloren. Vieles spricht daher dafür, die sozialen Veränderungen stärker vom Staat her zu denken.Berthold Vogel untersucht die Staatsbedürftigkeit der Gesellschaft und diskutiert vor dem Hintergrund verschärfter sozialer Ungleichheit die aktuelle Problematik des Sozialen die Frage, ob es nicht lohnenswert sein könnte, die Kunst der politischen Verwaltung in Zeiten zugespitzter sozialer Ungleichheiten zum Gegenstand öffentlicher Debatten zu machen. Berthold Vogel, PD Dr. disc. pol. studierte Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft, Arbeits- und Sozialrecht und Pädagogik an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen und war dort von 1989 bis 2005 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Soziologischen Forschungsinstitut. Seit Januar 2006 ist er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter sowie Forschungsprojektleiter im Arbeitsbereich »Die Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik« des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung und lehrt an den Universitäten in Bielefeld, Göttingen und Kassel sowie in St. Gallen und Fribourg (CH).
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    Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press
    ISBN: 9781922144485 , 1922144487 , 9781922144478
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (178 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Private enterprise in China
    Keywords: Free enterprise China. ; Privatization China. ; Industrial policy China. ; Industrial policy ; Free enterprise ; Privatization ; Industrial policy ; Free enterprise ; Privatization ; Industrial policy ; Privatization ; Particuliere sector ; Economic growth ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Development ; Economic Development ; China ; China ; Economic history ; Free enterprise ; China Economic conditions, 1976-2000. ; China Economic conditions 1976-2000 ; China ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The book reports and interprets results from a detailed study of the contemporary private sector in China. It is based on the Technical Report on Private Enterprise Development in China commissioned by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the State Economic and Trade Commission (SETC) of the People's Republic of China. The research was undertaken by a team from the Australian National University and Peking University."--Preface.
    Abstract: "The book discusses the following matters relating to the development of private enterprise in China: market competition; finance; taxation; internal governance; labour and management skills; technological challenges; laws and government administrative regulations."--Introduction.
    Abstract: A summary overview of emerging private enterprise in China -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Development of the role of private enterprise in China -- 3. Descriptions of the sample enterprises -- 4. Market competition -- 5. Finance -- 6. Taxation -- 7. Internal governance -- 8. Labour and managerial skills -- 9. Technological challenges -- 10. Laws and government administrative regulations
    Note: "First published by Asia Pacific Press, 2001 , Includes bibliographical references and index , Title from title screen (viewed 21 December 2012)
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  • 21
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    Hamburg : Hamburger Ed.
    ISBN: 9783868545203
    Language: German
    Pages: Online Ressource (133 S.)
    DDC: 306.094
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Sociology ; Privatization ; Socialism and society ; Sozialstaat ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Soziale Sicherheit ; Unsicherheit ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Exklusion ; Prekarität ; Gesellschaft ; Mittelschicht ; Deutschland ; BRD ; Social stratification ; Europe Politics and government ; Europe Social conditions ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Staatskunst ; Soziale Ungleichheit
    Abstract: Hauptbeschreibung: Gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit, die Frage nach dem Oben und dem Unten, nach dem Zentrum und der Peripherie des Sozialen ist auf die Tagesordnung der öffentlichen Rede über den Zustand und die Zukunft unseres Gemeinwesens zurückgekehrt. Politik und Publizistik werfen einen Blick auf die bedrängten und besorgten Mittelschichten, auf das »abgehängte Prekariat« und die deklassierten Randlagen, aber auch die Verantwortung und Solidarbereitschaft der Oberklasse wird unter dem Stichwort »Reichensteuer« zum Thema. Diese Auseinandersetzung mit der Verschärfung sozialer Ungleichheiten w
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Titelseite; Impressum; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Vorrede; Die Forsthoff'sche Formel; Die neue Gegenwärtigkeit des Staates; Der Wohlfahrtsstaat als Ort sozialer Konflikte; Der sorgende Wohlfahrtsstaat; Der gewährleistende Wohlfahrtsstaat; Markt und Kontrakt als partikulare Steuerungsprinzipien; Soziale Verwundbarkeit und die Prekarität des Wohlstands; Soziale Minusvisionen und berufliche Opportunitäten; Verwaltungs- und Regierungskunst; Nachbemerkung; Literatur; Zum Autor;
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 126 - 132
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9782296565647
    Language: French
    Pages: 315 S. , graph. Darst.
    DDC: 330
    Keywords: Privatisierung ; Kamerun ; Privatization ; Cameroon Economic policy
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    Washington DC : World Bank
    ISBN: 9780821387382 , 9780821387399
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 102 p) , ill. (some col.) , 24 cm
    Edition: 2015 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Directions in development
    DDC: 332.67/22
    Keywords: Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Power resources Finance ; Power resources Finance ; Privatization ; Privatization ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Power resources Finance ; Power resources Finance ; Privatization ; Privatization ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Power resources ; Power resources ; Privatization ; Privatization
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  • 24
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar Pub
    ISBN: 9781849805360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 166 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ma, Shu-yun Shareholding system reform in China
    DDC: 338.95105
    Keywords: Privatisierung ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; China ; Privatization ; Electronic books ; China Economic policy 2000- ; China Economic policy 1976-2000
    Abstract: Since the 1980s, there has been a global wave of transfer of state assets to private hands. China is a relatively late participant of this worldwide trend, yet, in the last decade it has emerged as one of the largest privatizing countries. Shu-Yun Ma argues that China's privatization is not based on any grand blueprint; rather, it is privatization by "groping for stones to cross the river", a well-known metaphor often attributed to Deng Xiaoping, meaning that the reform simply proceeds on a trial-and-error basis without being guided by any theory
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Shareholding system reform as the Chinese way of privatization -- 3. Evolution of the shareholding system reform -- 4. The role of spontaneity and state initiative in the shareholding system reform -- 5. Foreign participation in China's privatization and the role of the state -- 6. China's privatization through listing state enterprises in Hong Kong -- 7. Completing privatization through "share conversion" -- 8. Conclusion : privatizing through groping for stepping stones
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-159) and index
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    Ithaca : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 9780801459436 , 0801459435
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 248 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Cornell paperbacks
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zhang, Li, 1965 May- In search of paradise
    DDC: 305.55095135
    Keywords: Housing China ; Kunming Shi ; Real estate business China ; Kunming Shi ; Middle class China ; Kunming Shi ; Privatization China ; Kunming Shi ; Land use China ; Kunming Shi ; City planning China ; Kunming Shi ; Housing ; Real estate business ; Middle class ; Privatization ; Land use ; City planning ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; City planning ; Geography ; Housing ; Land use ; Middle class ; Privatization ; Real estate business ; Mittelstand ; Wohneigentum ; Immobiliengeschäft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Mittelstand ; Grossstadt ; Wohnen ; Wohnstandard ; Städtebau ; Wohnungsmarkt ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Kunming Shi (China) Geography ; China ; Kunming Shi ; Kunming Shi (China) Geography ; China ; Kun ming ; China ; Kunming Shi ; Kunming ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and socialist ideals, they hope to find material comfort and social distinction in newly constructed gated communities. This quest for the good life is profoundly transforming the physical and social landscapes of urban China. Li Zhang, who is from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, turns a keen ethnographic eye on her hometown. She combines her analysis of larger political and social issues with fine-grained details about the profound spatial, cultural, and political effects of the shift in the way Chinese urban residents live their lives and think about themselves. In Search of Paradise is a deeply informed account of how the rise of private homeownership is reconfiguring urban space, class subjects, gender selfhood, and ways of life in the reform era. New, seemingly individualistic lifestyles mark a dramatic move away from yearning for a social utopia under Maoist socialism. Yet the privatization of property and urban living have engendered a simultaneous movement of public engagement among homeowners as they confront the encroaching power of the developers. This double movement of privatized living and public sphere activism, Zhang finds, is a distinctive feature of the cultural politics of the middle classes in contemporary China. Theoretically sophisticated and highly accessible, Zhang's account will appeal not only to those interested in China but also to anyone interested in spatial politics, middle-class culture, and postsocialist governing in a globalizing world
    Abstract: Farewell to welfare housing --Unlocking the real estate machine --Emerging landscapes of living --Spatializing class --Accumulation by displacement --Recasting self-worth --Privatizing community governing and its limits.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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    ISBN: 9781849802178
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 212 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Studies in evolutionary political economy
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The governance of network industries
    DDC: 363.6
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    Keywords: 1975-2005 ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; Infrastrukturpolitik ; Deregulierung ; Welt ; Public utilities Management ; Privatization ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Deregulation ; Infrastruktur ; Kommunaler Versorgungsbetrieb ; Deregulierung ; Privatisierung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Infrastruktur ; Versorgungsbetrieb ; Deregulierung ; Privatisierung ; Infrastruktur ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; Deregulierung
    Abstract: Infrastructures are subject to substantial readjustments of governance structures, often labeled as liberalization, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and water. This study highlights and illustrates some of the major challenges for readjusting the governance of network industries from an economic, institutional, political and technological perspective. The three parts of the book address the institutional design of infrastructures, the role of technology in different sectors and actor behaviour
    Abstract: pt. I. Institutions -- pt. II. Technology -- pt. III. Policies
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    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4811
    Parallel Title: Available in another form Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies
    Keywords: Privatization ; Privatization
    Abstract: "The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and vary across regions, coinciding with differences in policies and institutional development. In China relatively more estimates suggest that privatization to domestic owners improves the level of performance. Concentrated private ownership has a stronger positive effect on performance than dispersed ownership in the post-communist economies, but foreign joint ventures rather than wholly owned foreign firms have a positive effect in China. Worker or collective ownership does not have a negative effect. In the post-communist economies new firms are equally or more efficient than firms privatized to domestic owners, and foreign start-ups are more efficient than domestic ones. Privatization is not associated with lower employment. When accompanied by complementary reforms, privatization has a positive effect on economic growth. Three factors appear to drive the more positive effect of privatization to foreign than domestic owners. Domestic managers have more limited skills and access to world markets, domestically privatized firms have been more subject to tunneling and in some countries new large shareholders artificially decreased performance. The important policy implication is that privatization per se does not guarantee improved performance, at least not in the short- to medium-run. Type of private ownership, corporate governance, access to know-how and markets, and the legal and institutional system matter for firm performance. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/8/2009 , Also available in print.
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    New York : Columbia Univ. Press
    ISBN: 9780231146944 , 9780231146951
    Language: English
    Pages: 127 S. , graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: The Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 331.25/20973
    Keywords: Soziale Sicherheit ; Old age pensions ; Pension trusts ; Social security ; Privatization ; USA
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  • 29
    ISBN: 3937683267 , 9783937683263
    Language: German
    Pages: 112 S. , zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst. , 28 cm
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Series Statement: Edition Le monde diplomatique 6
    Series Statement: Le monde diplomatique 〈Berlin〉 / Edition LMD
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Privatization ; Government ownership ; Public goods ; Economic policy ; Public administration ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gemeinwohl ; Öffentliches Gut ; Privatisierung
    Abstract: Ob Schienennetze oder Internet, ob Gesundheitswesen oder Bildung, ob Luftraum oder Weltmeere die öffentlichen Güter wecken private Interessen. Das war schon immer so. Neu ist, dass der Staat sich zum Vollzugsgehilfen dieser Interessen macht
    Note: Enth. zahlr. Beitr
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    Book
    New York [u.a.] : Routledge
    ISBN: 0415996171 , 041599618X , 0203883225 , 9780415996174 , 9780415996181 , 9780203883228
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 223 S.
    Edition: Literaturverz. S. 203 - 216
    DDC: 325.73
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    Keywords: Rule of law ; Privatization ; Contracting out ; USA ; Rechtsstaatsprinzip ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Einwanderung ; Beschränkung ; Kontrolle ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Government policy ; USA ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Rechtsstaatsprinzip
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  • 31
    ISBN: 9789264034235
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 201 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Business for Development: Fostering the Private Sector
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    Keywords: Privatization ; Government ownership ; Entwicklungsländer ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Privatwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsförderung ; Afrika ; Mittelstandspolitik ; Entwicklungspolitik
    Note: Engl. Ausg. u.d.T.: Business for development : fostering the private sector ; [a Development Centre perspective] , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9789264042827
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 145 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Public-Private Partnerships: In Pursuit of Risk Sharing and Value for Money
    Keywords: Privatization ; Public-private sector cooperation ; Public Private Partnership
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Engl. Ausg. u.d.T.: Public-private partnerships : in pursuit of risk sharing and value for money , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9780230286412
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Privatization ; Public utilities ; Development economics. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Ethnology—Africa. ; International economics. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Political economy.
    Abstract: it is increasingly apparent that the privatization experiment in sub-Saharan Africa has failed. This book shows that the state is set to dominate service delivery for the foreseeable future in much of the region, and that the public sector must be considered as a viable policy option for the delivery of water and electricity.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index
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    ISBN: 9780821374092 , 9780821374108
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxviii, 351 p) , ill , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Latin American development forum series
    DDC: 363.6098
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public utilities Finance ; Public utilities Finance ; Public-private sector cooperation ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public utilities Finance ; Public utilities Finance ; Public-private sector cooperation ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public utilities ; Public utilities ; Public-private sector cooperation
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Setting the stage -- Learning from the existing literature -- Filling the gaps with new datasets and methodologies -- The impact on electricity distribution -- The impact on fixed line telecommunications -- The impact on water and sewerage -- An assessment of the electricity distribution performance of private and public utilities -- Determinants of impact: regulatory and contract variables -- Conclusions and moving forward.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-328) and index
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (28 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Estache, Antonio Regulatory Agencies
    Keywords: Electric utilities ; Electricity sector ; Emerging Markets ; Energy ; Energy Production and Transportation ; Independent regulators ; Independent regulatory ; Infrastructure Economics and Finance ; Infrastructure Regulation ; Infrastructure industries ; Private Sector Development ; Private ownership ; Privatization ; Public Sector Economics and Finance ; Regulatory Agencies ; Regulatory agency ; Regulatory reforms ; Service delivery ; Electric utilities ; Electricity sector ; Emerging Markets ; Energy ; Energy Production and Transportation ; Independent regulators ; Independent regulatory ; Infrastructure Economics and Finance ; Infrastructure Regulation ; Infrastructure industries ; Private Sector Development ; Private ownership ; Privatization ; Public Sector Economics and Finance ; Regulatory Agencies ; Regulatory agency ; Regulatory reforms ; Service delivery ; Electric utilities ; Electricity sector ; Emerging Markets ; Energy ; Energy Production and Transportation ; Independent regulators ; Independent regulatory ; Infrastructure Economics and Finance ; Infrastructure Regulation ; Infrastructure industries ; Private Sector Development ; Private ownership ; Privatization ; Public Sector Economics and Finance ; Regulatory Agencies ; Regulatory agency ; Regulatory reforms ; Service delivery
    Abstract: The authors explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector. The authors exploit a unique dataset comprising firm-level information on a representative sample of 220 electric utilities from 51 development and transition countries for the years 1985 to 2005. Their results indicate that regulatory agencies are associated with more efficient firms and with higher social welfare
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (38 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Hoff, Karla Exiting A Lawless State
    Keywords: Assets ; Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress ; Corruption ; Democracy ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Gender ; Gender and Law ; Governance ; Labor Policies ; Law and Development ; Laws ; Lobbying ; Minister ; National Governance ; Politicians ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Rule of law ; Social Protections and Labor ; Theft ; Assets ; Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress ; Corruption ; Democracy ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Gender ; Gender and Law ; Governance ; Labor Policies ; Law and Development ; Laws ; Lobbying ; Minister ; National Governance ; Politicians ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Rule of law ; Social Protections and Labor ; Theft ; Assets ; Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress ; Corruption ; Democracy ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Gender ; Gender and Law ; Governance ; Labor Policies ; Law and Development ; Laws ; Lobbying ; Minister ; National Governance ; Politicians ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Rule of law ; Social Protections and Labor ; Theft
    Abstract: An earlier paper showed that an economy could be trapped in an equilibrium state in which the absence of the rule of law led to asset-stripping, and the prevalence of asset-stripping led to the absence of a demand for the rule of law, highlighting a coordination failure. This paper looks more carefully at the dynamics of transition from a non-rule-of-law state. The paper identifies a commitment problem as the critical feature inhibiting the transition: the inability, under a rule of law, to forgive theft. This can lead to the perpetuation of the non-rule-of-law state, even when it might seem that the alternative is Pareto-improving
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (35 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Milanovic, Branko Reform And Inequality During The Transition
    Keywords: Country fixed effects ; Debt Markets ; Distribution of income ; Economic Theory and Research ; Economic reform ; Emerging Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Globalization ; Income ; Inequality ; Investment and Investment Climate ; Labor markets ; Liberalization ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Market economy ; Poverty Impact Evaluation ; Poverty Reduction ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Pro-Poor Growth ; Services and Transfers to Poor ; Transition countries ; Country fixed effects ; Debt Markets ; Distribution of income ; Economic Theory and Research ; Economic reform ; Emerging Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Globalization ; Income ; Inequality ; Investment and Investment Climate ; Labor markets ; Liberalization ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Market economy ; Poverty Impact Evaluation ; Poverty Reduction ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Pro-Poor Growth ; Services and Transfers to Poor ; Transition countries ; Country fixed effects ; Debt Markets ; Distribution of income ; Economic Theory and Research ; Economic reform ; Emerging Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Globalization ; Income ; Inequality ; Investment and Investment Climate ; Labor markets ; Liberalization ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Market economy ; Poverty Impact Evaluation ; Poverty Reduction ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Pro-Poor Growth ; Services and Transfers to Poor ; Transition countries
    Abstract: Using for the first time household survey data from 26 post-Communist countries, covering the period 1990-2005, this paper examines correlates of unprecedented increases in inequality registered by most of the economies. The analysis shows, after controlling for country fixed effects and type of survey used, that economic reform is strongly negatively associated with the income share of the bottom decile, and positively with the income shares of the top two deciles. However, breaking economic reform into its component parts, the picture is more nuanced. Large-scale privatization and infrastructure reform (mostly consisting of privatization and higher fees) are responsible for the pro-inequality effect; small-scale privatization tends to raise the income shares of the bottom deciles. Acceleration in growth is also pro-rich. But democratization is strongly pro-poor, as is lower inflation. Somewhat surprisingly, the analysis finds no evidence that greater government spending as share of gross domestic income reduces inequality
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    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (27 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Kim, Aehyung Decentralization And The Provision of Public Services
    Keywords: Banks and Banking Reform ; Debt Markets ; Decentralization ; Distribution of income ; Economic Theory and Research ; Employment ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Fiscal Federalism ; Income distribution ; Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Finance Management ; Local government ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Privatization ; Public Sector Economics and Finance ; Public Services ; Public service provision ; Revenue sources ; Banks and Banking Reform ; Debt Markets ; Decentralization ; Distribution of income ; Economic Theory and Research ; Employment ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Fiscal Federalism ; Income distribution ; Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Finance Management ; Local government ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Privatization ; Public Sector Economics and Finance ; Public Services ; Public service provision ; Revenue sources ; Banks and Banking Reform ; Debt Markets ; Decentralization ; Distribution of income ; Economic Theory and Research ; Employment ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Fiscal Federalism ; Income distribution ; Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Finance Management ; Local government ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Privatization ; Public Sector Economics and Finance ; Public Services ; Public service provision ; Revenue sources
    Abstract: This paper discusses decentralization (administrative, fiscal and political) of government in public service provision. It aims to facilitate understanding among practitioners, policy makers, and scholars about what decentralization entails in practice compared to theory. A review of the empirical literature and experience of decentralization is presented. The paper highlights issues that policy makers in developing and transitional countries should be aware of when reforming government, considering their unique political and economic environment. The author argues that decentralization produces efficiency gains stemming from inter-jurisdictional competition, enhanced checks and balances over the government through voting at the subnational level, and informational advantages due to proximity to citizens. By contrast, arguments against decentralization include the risk of an increased level of corruption, coordination problems stemming from multiple layers of government, low capacity of subnational government, and unproductive inter-jurisdictional competition. Decentralization itself does not render increased government effectiveness in public service provision. Instead, the effectiveness of government largely depends on the quality of human capital and institutions
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    Online Resource
    Washington, DC : World Bank, Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Team
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (31 S.)
    Edition: World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4804
    Parallel Title: Cull, Robert J Pursuing efficiency while maintaining outreach
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Privatization ; Banks and banking ; Privatization
    Abstract: "Profitability improvements after the privatization of a large state-owned bank might come at the expense of reduced access to financial services for some groups, especially the rural poor. The privatization of Tanzania's National Bank of Commerce provides a unique episode for studying this issue. The bank was split into the "new" National Bank of Commerce, a commercial bank that assumed most of the original bank's assets and liabilities, and the National Microfinance Bank, which assumed most of the branch network and the mandate to foster access to financial services. The new National Bank of Commerce's profitability and portfolio quality improved although credit growth was slow, in line with privatization experiences in other developing countries. Finding a buyer for the National Microfinance Bank proved very difficult, although after years under contract management by private banking consultants, Rabobank of the Netherlands emerged as a purchaser. Profitability has since improved and lending has slowly grown, while the share of non-performing loans remains low. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/8/2009 , Also available in print.
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    ISBN: 3531152823 , 9783531152820
    Language: German
    Pages: 332 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Series Statement: Schriften der Zeppelin University zwischen Wirtschaft, Kultur und Politik
    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Government ownership ; Privatization ; Public administration ; Öffentlichkeit ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung ; Öffentliches Gut ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammlung von Beiträgen ; Öffentlichkeit ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung ; Öffentliches Gut ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung
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    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (34 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Kenny, Charles Infrastructure Governance And Corruption
    Keywords: Assets ; Banks and Banking Reform ; Bribes ; Collusion ; Corrupt ; Corrupt acts ; Corruption ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Monopoly ; National Governance ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Transparency ; Transport ; Transport Economics, Policy and Planning ; White elephants ; Assets ; Banks and Banking Reform ; Bribes ; Collusion ; Corrupt ; Corrupt acts ; Corruption ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Monopoly ; National Governance ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Transparency ; Transport ; Transport Economics, Policy and Planning ; White elephants ; Assets ; Banks and Banking Reform ; Bribes ; Collusion ; Corrupt ; Corrupt acts ; Corruption ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Monopoly ; National Governance ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Transparency ; Transport ; Transport Economics, Policy and Planning ; White elephants
    Abstract: Governance is central to development outcomes in infrastructure, not least because corruption (a symptom of failed governance) can have significantly negative impact on returns to infrastructure investment. This conclusion holds whether infrastructure is in private or public hands. This paper looks at what has been learned about the role of governance in infrastructure, provides some recent examples of reform efforts and project approaches, and suggests an agenda for greater engagement - primarily at the sector level - to improve governance and reduce the development impact of corruption. The discussion covers market structure, regulation, state-owned enterprise reform, planning and budgeting, and project design
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (39 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Keefer, Philip Beyond Legal Origin And Checks And Balances
    Keywords: Bank Accounts ; Bank Balance Sheets ; Bank Policy ; Checks ; Contract ; Contract Rights ; Credibility ; Debt Markets ; Depositors ; Economic Theory and Research ; Emerging Markets ; Exchange ; Expropriation ; Finance ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Financial Markets ; Inequality ; Labor Policies ; Law and Development ; Legal Products ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Political Economy ; Poverty Reduction ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Social Protections and Labor ; Bank Accounts ; Bank Balance Sheets ; Bank Policy ; Checks ; Contract ; Contract Rights ; Credibility ; Debt Markets ; Depositors ; Economic Theory and Research ; Emerging Markets ; Exchange ; Expropriation ; Finance ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Financial Markets ; Inequality ; Labor Policies ; Law and Development ; Legal Products ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Political Economy ; Poverty Reduction ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Social Protections and Labor ; Bank Accounts ; Bank Balance Sheets ; Bank Policy ; Checks ; Contract ; Contract Rights ; Credibility ; Debt Markets ; Depositors ; Economic Theory and Research ; Emerging Markets ; Exchange ; Expropriation ; Finance ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Financial Markets ; Inequality ; Labor Policies ; Law and Development ; Legal Products ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Political Economy ; Poverty Reduction ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Social Protections and Labor
    Abstract: The existing literature emphasizes and contrasts the role of political checks and balances and legal origin in determining the pace of financial sector development. This paper expands substantially on one aspect of this debate: the fact that government actions that promote financial sector development, whether prudent financial regulation or secure property and contract rights, are public goods and sensitive to political incentives to provide public goods. Tests of hypotheses emanating from this argument yield four new conclusions. First, two key determinants of those incentives-the credibility of pre-electoral political promises and citizen information about politician decisions-systematically promote financial sector development. Second, these political factors, along with political checks and balances, operate in part through their influence on the security of property rights, an argument asserted but not previously tested. Third, contrary to findings elsewhere in the literature, the political determinants of financial sector development are significant even in the presence of controls for legal origin. Finally, and again in contrast to the literature, the evidence here suggests that legal origin primarily proxies for political phenomena. Legal origin is a largely insignificant determinant of financial sector development when those phenomena are fully taken into account
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (56 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Andres, Luis Do Regulation And Institutional Design Matter For Infrastructure Sector Performance ?
    Keywords: Debt Markets ; Developing economies ; Emerging Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial returns ; Gross domestic product ; Infrastructure Economics ; Infrastructure Economics and Finance ; Infrastructure Regulation ; Infrastructure projects ; Private Participation in Infrastructure ; Private Sector Development ; Private infrastructure ; Private investment ; Private investments ; Privatization ; Regulatory frameworks ; Sustainable Development ; Debt Markets ; Developing economies ; Emerging Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial returns ; Gross domestic product ; Infrastructure Economics ; Infrastructure Economics and Finance ; Infrastructure Regulation ; Infrastructure projects ; Private Participation in Infrastructure ; Private Sector Development ; Private infrastructure ; Private investment ; Private investments ; Privatization ; Regulatory frameworks ; Sustainable Development ; Debt Markets ; Developing economies ; Emerging Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial returns ; Gross domestic product ; Infrastructure Economics ; Infrastructure Economics and Finance ; Infrastructure Regulation ; Infrastructure projects ; Private Participation in Infrastructure ; Private Sector Development ; Private infrastructure ; Private investment ; Private investments ; Privatization ; Regulatory frameworks ; Sustainable Development
    Abstract: This paper evaluates the impact of economic regulation on infrastructure sector outcomes. It tests the impact of regulation from three different angles: aligning costs with tariffs and firm profitability; reducing opportunistic renegotiation; and measuring the effects on productivity, quality of service, coverage, and prices. The analysis uses an extensive data set of about 1,000 infrastructure concessions granted in Latin America from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. The analysis finds that as the theory indicates, regulation matters. The empirical work here reported shows that in three relevant economic aspects-aligning costs and tariffs; dissuading renegotiations; and improving productivity, quality of service, coverage, and tariffs-the structure, institutions, and procedures of regulation matter. Thus, significant efforts should continue to be made to improve the structure, quality, and institutionality of regulation. Regulation matters for protecting both consumers and investors, for aligning closely financial returns and the costs of capital, and for capturing higher levels of benefits from the provision of infrastructure services by the private sector
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    The Australian National University, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
    ISBN: 9781920942618 , 1920942610 , 9781920942601 , 1920942602
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Public sector employment in the twenty-first century.
    Parallel Title: Print version Public sector employment in the twenty-first century
    Keywords: Civil service Australia. ; Labor contract Australia. ; Privatization Australia. ; Contracting out Australia. ; Labor laws and legislation Australia. ; Industrial relations Australia. ; Civil service New Zealand. ; Civil service Great Britain. ; Industrial relations ; Civil service ; Civil service ; Civil service ; Labor laws and legislation ; Privatization ; Contracting out ; Labor contract ; Industrial relations ; Civil service ; Civil service ; Civil service ; Labor laws and legislation ; Privatization ; Contracting out ; Labor contract ; Industrial relations ; Labor contract ; Labor laws and legislation ; Privatization ; Government - Asia ; Government - Non-U.S ; Law, Politics & Government ; Australia ; Great Britain ; New Zealand ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Affairs & Administration ; Civil service ; Contracting out ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This book addresses the transformations which have occurred in employment arrangements and practices in the Australian public sector over the past decade, the changes in responsibilities and accountability through employment contracts, whistleblower legislation and partnerships between government and the private sector, and provides a comparative context through studies of reconstruction of the public service in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Themes of contractualisation, privatisation and outsourcing are explored and critically examined, as well as influences of the industrial relations legislative framework including the Work Choices legislation."--Provided by publisher.
    Note: Public sector employment in the twenty-first century: themes and introduction , The reshaping of Australian public service employment law , The Australian public service: statutory, doctrinal and institutional arrangements for its governance , A revised legislative framework for Australian public service employment: the successive impacts of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) and the Public Service Act 1999 (Cth) , From workplace bargaining to workplace relations: industrial relations in the Australian public service under the coalition government , Whistleblower protection and the challenge to public employment law , Outsourcing and new employer entities: challenges to traditional public sector employment , 'The politics of partnership': the evolution of public sector industrial relations in Victoria , Reconstructing state employment in New Zealand , The privatisation of the civil service , Challenges ahead: workplace relations legislation and the future , English
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    Hamburg : Hamburger Ed.
    ISBN: 9783936096774
    Language: German
    Pages: 132 S.
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    DDC: 305
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    Keywords: Politische Theorie ; Sozialstaat ; Politik ; Privatization ; Socialism and society ; Sociology ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Politischer Wandel ; Staatskunst ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Europa ; Europe Politics and government ; Europe Social conditions ; Social stratification ; Sammlung von Beiträgen ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Staatskunst ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Politischer Wandel
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    ISBN: 9780230590328
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 307 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in Economic Transition
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
    Series Statement: Springer ebook collection / Palgrave Economics and Finance Collection 2000 - 2013
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    Keywords: Nuti, Domenico Mario ; 1990-2005 ; Wirtschaftsordnung ; Planwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Systemtransformation ; Marktwirtschaft ; Finanzreform ; Privatisierung ; Osteuropa ; Transformationsstaaten ; Post-communism ; Privatization ; Capitalism ; Macroeconomics ; International economics ; Development economics ; Regional economics ; Spatial economics ; Economics ; Economic policy. ; Europe, Eastern Economic policy 1989- ; Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 1989- ; Osteuropa ; Systemtransformation ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Privatisierung ; Osteuropa ; Systemtransformation ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Privatisierung
    Abstract: This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk management, the optimal transition path, and globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Socialist Legacy; Part II: Transition: From Socialism to Capitalism; Part III: Beyond Transition; Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Socialist Legacy; Part II: Transition: From Socialism to Capitalism; Part III: Beyond Transition; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Dublin [u.a.] : Irish Academic Press
    ISBN: 0716534118 , 0716534126 , 9780716534129 , 9780716534112
    Language: English
    Pages: XXI, 274 S
    Edition: Repr.
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: International business enterprises ; International business enterprises Social aspects ; International business enterprises Political aspects ; Corporations, Foreign ; Corporations, Foreign Social aspects ; Corporations, Foreign Political aspects ; Privatization ; Irland ; Weltwirtschaft ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Takeover ; Globalisierung
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    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781847204288
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 203 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Monash studies in global movements
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Privatization and market development
    DDC: 338.9/25
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    Keywords: 1979-2005 ; Privatisierung ; Öffentlich-private Partnerschaft ; Privatwirtschaft ; Politische Reform ; Regulierung ; Welt ; Economic policy ; Privatization ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Privatisierung ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: This accessible book aims to inform readers interested in assessing privatization and market development concepts on a global scale, and outlines a range of thinking on how these policy ideas have moved around the globe. Bringing together an international team of contributors, the book traces how privatization concepts have grown in application, and how they have spread to become a central policy idea for governments
    Abstract: Introduction / Graeme Hodge -- Enterprise sales : Thatcher leads the charge / David Parker -- Contracting as policy : worldwide implications / Larkin Dudley and Alesya Bogaevskaya -- Public-private partnerships : a public policy perspective / Carsten Greve -- Private sector development strategy in developing countries / Paul Cook -- The 'consultocracy' : the business of reforming government / Graeme Hodge and Diana Bowman -- Regulation in the age of globalization : the diffusion of regulatory agencies across Europe and Latin America / Fabrizio Gilardi, Jacint Jordana and David Levi-Faur -- Prospects for the global regulation of markets / George Gilligan -- Conclusions : spreading the privatization family business / Graeme Hodge
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781845429881
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 438 p) , ill., map
    Series Statement: New horizons in money and finance
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chiu, Becky Reforming China's state-owned enterprises and banks
    DDC: 338.6/2/0951
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    Keywords: Privatisierung ; Öffentliches Unternehmen ; Bank ; Finanzsektor ; Corporate Governance ; Wirtschaftsreform ; China ; Banks and banking Government ownership ; Government ownership ; Privatization ; Electronic books ; China Economic policy ; China ; Kreditwesen ; Privatisierung ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Öffentliche Wirtschaft ; China ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Öffentliche Wirtschaft ; Kreditwesen ; Privatisierung
    Abstract: This book's starting point is that after two decades of experiments, during which other transition economies have effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The authors explore these reforms along with the problems of China's state-owned banks, which have long been troubled by the adverse loans of Chinese enterprises and face foreign competition in 2007 under China's WTO commitments. Drawing on wide-ranging case studies of enterprise reform, Becky Chiu and Mervyn Lewis combine their extensive experience to give an authoritative account of China's enterprise and bank reform agenda, involving property rights, improved corporate governance and stimulating enterprise
    Abstract: 1. The nature of the problem -- 2. The background to China's economic reforms -- 3. The changing role of SOEs -- 4. Property rights reform -- 5. Corporate governance reforms -- 6. Financial sector reforms -- 7. Solving the SOE debt problem -- 8. Early case studies of SOEs -- 9. Recent case studies -- 10. Reviewing the evidence -- 11. Fostering entrepreneurship -- 12. Conclusions
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9780230373617
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Privatization ; Privatization ; Free trade ; Free trade ; Development economics. ; International relations. ; Economic policy. ; Political economy. ; Macroeconomics. ; Developing countries Economic policy ; Former communist countries Economic policy
    Abstract: There has been a widespread move toward more market-oriented policies and institutions across the developing and former socialist countries. 31 country studies were undertaken to try to understand the divergent results of these reforms. This book presents the findings of these studies, synthesized on a regional and global basis.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p.365-382) and index
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230624955
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 189 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
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    Keywords: Privatisierung ; Westeuropa ; Economics ; Organization ; Planning ; International business enterprises ; Welfare economics ; Macroeconomics ; International economics ; Privatization ; Europe ; Organizational effectiveness ; Europe ; Europa ; Privatisierung ; Geschichte 1980-2006 ; Europa ; Privatisierung ; Geschichte 1980-2006
    Abstract: Major theoretical approaches stress the superiority of privately-owned over state-owned companies without addressing how corporate performance should best be measured. This book investigates performance of both private and state-owned, applying factor analysis to compare the two states
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Public versus Private Ownership: Theory and Performance; 3 Literature Review of Public and Private Ownership: Strengths and Weaknesses; 4 Why Factor Analysis?; 5 Results from the Empirical Study: Part I; 6 Results from the Empirical Study: Part II; 7 Summary and General Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Public versus Private Ownership: Theory and Performance; 3 Literature Review of Public and Private Ownership: Strengths and Weaknesses; 4 Why Factor Analysis?; 5 Results from the Empirical Study: Part I; 6 Results from the Empirical Study: Part II; 7 Summary and General Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-183) and index
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3884
    Parallel Title: Hamilton, Ellen Rental choice and housing policy realignment in transition
    Keywords: Housing policy ; Housing policy ; Privatization ; Privatization ; Housing policy ; Housing policy ; Privatization ; Privatization
    Abstract: "Massive privatizations of housing in Europe and Central Asia transition countries have significantly reduced rental tenure choice, threatening to impede residential mobility. Policymakers are intensifying their search for adequate policy responses aimed at broadening tenure choice for more household categories through effective rental housing alternatives in the social and private sectors. While the social alternative requires substantial and well-balanced subsidies, the private alternative will not grow unless rent, management, and tax reforms are boldly implemented and housing privatization truly completed. "--World Bank web site
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    Online Resource
    Palo Alto, CA : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 0821356240
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 284 p) , ill , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    DDC: 338.951
    Keywords: Privatization ; Privatization ; Privatization
    Note: A copublication of Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, and the World Bank , Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-264) and index
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3950
    Parallel Title: Auriol, Emmanuelle Infrastructure and public utilities privatization in developing countries
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public utilities ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public utilities
    Abstract: "The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so that public subsidies decline. This benefit for tax-payers comes at the cost of price increases for consumers. In developing countries, tight budget constraints imply that privatization may be optimal for low profitability segments. For highly profitable public utilities, the combination of allocative inefficiency and critical budgetary conditions may favor public ownership. Finally, once a market segment gives room for more than one firm, governments prefer to regulate the industry. In the absence of a credible regulatory agency, regulation is achieved through public ownership. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/28/2006 , Also available in print.
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3937
    Parallel Title: Jensen, Olivia The handshake
    Keywords: Privatization ; Sanitation ; Water-supply ; Privatization ; Sanitation ; Water-supply
    Abstract: "This paper uses a new dataset, "WATSAN," of private sector participation (PSP) projects for water and sanitation in developing countries to examine the determinants of the number of projects signed for each country between 1990 and 2004. The new dataset improves on existing sources, in particular in its coverage of projects with local investors, and provides adequate data for cross-country regression analysis. The authors use a negative binomial regression model to investigate the factors influencing the number of PSP projects in a sample of 60 developing countries with 460 PSP projects. The regression results provide support for the hypotheses that PSP is greater in larger markets where the ability to pay is higher and where governments are fiscally constrained. The authors test several indicators of institutional quality and find that these are generally significant in determining the number of projects signed for each country. Measures of the protection of property rights and the quality of the bureaucracy emerge as the most important institutions that encourage PSP. Rule of law and the control of corruption are significant, albeit at a lower level, while the quality of contract law and political stability are not robustly significant. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/30/2006 , Also available in print.
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    ISBN: 0821366920 , 0821366939 , 9780821366929
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 105 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Keywords: Political corruption ; Political corruption ; Privatization Corrupt practices ; Privatization Corrupt practices ; Political corruption ; Political corruption ; Privatization Corrupt practices ; Privatization Corrupt practices ; Political corruption ; Political corruption ; Privatization ; Privatization
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-105)
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    Austin : University of Texas Press
    ISBN: 0292714270 , 0292714807 , 9780292714274 , 9780292714809 , 9780292714274 , 9780292714809
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 242 p.
    Edition: 1st ed
    Series Statement: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
    DDC: 305.8/0097265
    Keywords: Politik ; Mayas Ethnic identity ; Mayas Government relations ; Cultural property Protection ; Cultural property Government policy ; Privatization ; Contracting out ; Ethnische Identität ; Denkmalschutz ; Maya ; Kulturerbe ; Mexiko ; Halbinsel Yucatán ; Maya ; Kulturerbe ; Denkmalschutz ; Halbinsel Yucatán ; Halbinsel Yucatán ; Maya ; Ethnische Identität
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-235) and index
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    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 0801444349 , 9780801444340
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 273 S. , Tab. , a
    DDC: 338.947/05
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    Keywords: 1985-2005 ; Eigentum ; Vermögen ; Kapitalismus ; Privatisierung ; Wettbewerb ; Konglomerat ; Systemtransformation ; Russland ; Property ; Privatization ; Wealth ; Real property ; Property Russia (Federation) ; Privatization Russia (Federation) ; Wealth Russia (Federation) ; Real property Russia (Federation) ; Russia (Federation) Economic conditions 1991- ; Russia (Federation) Economic conditions ; 1991- ; Russland ; Privatisierung ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Russland ; Wirtschaft ; Privatisierung ; Macht ; Geschichte 1985-2005
    Abstract: Comprehending turmoil : post-Soviet Russia as a struggle for property -- The tangled web they wove : property in the USSR before 1985 -- Let the games begin, 1985-91 -- The next big thing : property in the era of mass privatization and land reform, 1992-94 -- Many currents, one tumultuous river : redistribution after privatization, 1994-97 -- The earth moves : finance, politics, and a new era of redistribution, 1997-2002 -- A new world, but how new? : the Yukos affair and beyond, 2002-2005 -- Face forward : lessons for understanding change
    Description / Table of Contents: Comprehending turmoil : post-Soviet Russia as a struggle for property -- The tangled web they wove : property in the USSR before 1985 -- Let the games begin, 1985-91 -- The next big thing : property in the era of mass privatization and land reform, 1992-94 -- Many currents, one tumultuous river : redistribution after privatization, 1994-97 -- The earth moves : finance, politics, and a new era of redistribution, 1997-2002 -- A new world, but how new? : the Yukos affair and beyond, 2002-5 -- Face forward : lessons for understanding change
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
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    New York [u.a.] : Columbia University Press
    ISBN: 0231137842
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 275 S.
    Series Statement: Critical Theory Institute Books
    DDC: 306.32
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    Keywords: Property ; Privatization ; Persons ; Humanism ; Postmodernism ; Person ; Eigentum ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Eigentum ; Person
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
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    Peterborough : Broadview Pr. [u.a.]
    ISBN: 1551117525
    Language: English
    Pages: 280 S.
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Municipal services Economic aspects ; Privatization ; Consumption (Economics) Social aspects ; Privatisierung ; Gemeinde ; Sozialer Wandel ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Austin, Tex. : Univ. of Texas Press
    ISBN: 0292714270 , 9780292714274 , 0292714807 , 9780292714809
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 242 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series Statement: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
    DDC: 305.80097265
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    Keywords: Mayas Ethnic identity ; Mayas Government relations ; Cultural property Protection ; Cultural property Government policy ; Privatization ; Contracting out ; Politik ; Intervention ; Weltkulturerbe ; Kulturerbe ; Massentourismus ; Yucatán (Mexico : State) Ethnic relations ; Yucatán ; Chichén Itzá ; Yucatán ; Kulturerbe ; Politik ; Massentourismus ; Intervention ; Chichén Itzá ; Weltkulturerbe ; Politik
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    Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
    ISBN: 1280466154 , 9781280466151 , 0803251785 , 9780803251786
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 v.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Our landless patria
    DDC: 306.2097295
    Keywords: Social stratification Puerto Rico ; Caguas ; Land tenure Government policy ; Puerto Rico ; Caguas ; Privatization Puerto Rico ; Caguas ; Peasants Social conditions ; Puerto Rico ; Caguas ; Citizenship Puerto Rico ; Caguas ; Social stratification ; Land tenure Government policy ; Privatization ; Peasants Social conditions ; Citizenship ; Peasants Social conditions ; Citizenship ; Privatization ; Social stratification ; Land tenure Government policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Citizenship ; Land tenure ; Government policy ; Peasants ; Social conditions ; Privatization ; Race relations ; Social stratification ; Caguas (P.R.) Race relations ; Puerto Rico ; Caguas ; Caguas (P.R.) Race relations ; Caguas (P.R.) Race relations ; Puerto Rico ; Caguas ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Our Landless Patria examines issues of race and citizenship in Puerto Rico, tracing how the process of land privatization accelerated a series of struggles for natural resources between the poorest sectors of society and the landed elite. The laws of privatization favored the landed elite and barred former slaves and their descendants from obtaining a formal title to a piece of land. In response, people of color developed an alternative citizenship that validated their livelihood, putting in motion a series of civil claims that protected people's mobility rights and their access to land. However, the rural poor's claims for a more egalitarian society, or what Rosa E. Carrasquillo calls "marginal citizenship," could not successfully transform the political exclusion of the racially mixed population because of its heavy borrowing from the Spanish legal system. In particular, marginal citizenship adopted patriarchy as a model to regulate social relations at home, failing to address gender inequalities and perpetuating class differences
    Description / Table of Contents: Mapping Caguas, mapping the country: the political and economic bases of citizenshipFrom crown to citizen: local politics and centralization -- In the face of inequality: land privatization and racial hierarchies -- Stepping toward liberation: defense of mobility rights and race -- Marginal but not equal: gender and citizenship.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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    San Francisco, US : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
    ISBN: 9781626563933 , 1626563934 , 9781605091648 , 1605091642
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (216 pages)
    Series Statement: BK currents book
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barnes, Peter Capitalism 3.0 : A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
    DDC: 333.2
    Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General ; Capitalism ; Commons ; Privatization ; Commons ; Privatization ; Capitalism ; Reform ; Kapitalismus ; Öffentliches Gut ; Kapitalismus ; Reform ; Öffentliches Gut
    Description / Table of Contents: The commons - those creations of nature and society we inherit together and must preserve for our children - is under siege. Our current version of capitalism - the corporate, globalized version 2.0 - is rapidly squandering this heritage. Now, Peter Barnes offers a solution: protect the commons by giving it property rights and strong institutional managers. Barnes shows how capitalism - like a computer - is run by an operating system. Our current operating system gives too much power to profit-maximizing corporations that devour the commons and distribute most of their profits to a sliver of t
    Note: Print version record. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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    Lincoln, Neb. [u.a.] : University of Nebraska Press
    ISBN: 9780803215375 , 0803215371
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIV, 202 S. , Ill., Kt.
    DDC: 306.2097295
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1910 ; Social stratification ; Land tenure Government policy ; Privatization ; Peasantry Social conditions ; Citizenship ; Soziale Schichtung ; Landnahme ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Bauer ; Caguas (P.R.) Race relations ; Caguas ; Caguas ; Landnahme ; Bauer ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1880-1910 ; Caguas ; Landnahme ; Geschichte 1880-1910 ; Caguas ; Soziale Schichtung ; Geschichte 1880-1910 ; Caguas ; Bauer ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1880-1910 ; Caguas ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Geschichte 1880-1910
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    ISBN: 3593379791 , 3593377551 , 9783593379791
    Language: German
    Pages: 544 Seiten , Diagramme, Karte , 24 cm
    DDC: 338.92509431
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    Keywords: Bundesanstalt für Vereinigungsbedingte Sonderaufgaben ; Germany ; Privatisierung ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Ostdeutschland ; Privatization ; DDR ; Wirtschaft ; Treuhandanstalt ; Privatisierung ; Deutschland, ab 1990 ; BRD, 1989ff. ; Wiedervereinigung ; Deutsche Einheit ; Geschichte, 1990-2000 ; Buch ; Deutschland ; Bundesanstalt für Vereinigungsbedingte Sonderaufgaben ; Geschichte 1990-2000 ; Wirtschaft ; Treuhandanstalt ; Privatisierung ; Geschichte 1990-2000
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 506-531
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    Palo Alto, Calif : Stanford Economics and Finance
    ISBN: 1417587954 , 9781417587957
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 506 pages , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2005 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: Latin American development forum
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Keywords: Privatization ; Privatization Latin America ; Privatisation Amérique latine ; Amérique latine ; Lateinamerika ; Latin America ; Privatization ; Industrial policy Latin America ; Electronic books ; Privatisierung ; Lateinamerika ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lateinamerika ; Privatisierung ; Lateinamerika ; Privatisierung
    Abstract: Truth about privatization in Latin America Alberto Chong and Florencio López-de-Silanes -- Benefits and costs of privatization in Argentina Sebastián Galiani ... [et al.] -- Privatization and firm performance in Bolivia Katherina Capra ... [et al.] -- Costs and benefits of privatization Francisco Anuatti-Neto -- Effects of privatization on firms Ronald Fischer, Rodrigo Gutiérrez, and Pablo Serra -- Privatization in Colombia Carlos Pombo and Manuel Ramírez -- Privatization in Mexico Alberto Chong and Florencio López-de Silanes -- Peruvian privatization Máximo Torero
    Note: Title from ebook title screen (viewed on Apr. 7, 2005) , Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2005
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    ISBN: 1417583142 , 9781849771832 , 1849771839 , 9781417583140 , 1280475242 , 9781280475245
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
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    Keywords: Privatization ; Privatization. ; Electronic books ; Privatisierung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Privatisierung ; Öffentlicher Sektor ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; Öffentliche Dienstleistung ; Industrie ; Privatisierung ; Liberalisierung
    Abstract: 'In the golden days of the Washington consensus privatization was viewed as one of the central pillars of successful development. Ideology and interests triumphed over economic theory and experience both of which noted the difficulties posed by privatization and its limitations. Through a series of case studies Weizsäcker and his colleagues illustrate the limits to privatization' JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and former chief economist and senior vice-president of the World Bank 'Detailed case analysis is the only way to ensure that we learn how to get privatization
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Figures; List of Boxes; Foreword by the President of the Club of Rome; Preface; Editors' Acknowledgements; Part I: Introduction; Limits to Privatization; Part II: Privatization in Many Sectors; Initial Remarks; Water; Metals and Cement; Other Resources; Energy; Telecommunications and Postal Services; Transportation; Waste Disposal; Insurance; Culture and Media; Health; Education; Pensions; Police and Security; Part III: Privatization in Context; Initial Remarks; The General Context; The Regional Context; Special Issues; Part IV: Governance of Privatization; Initial Remarks
    Description / Table of Contents: RegulationPrivatization and Municipal Democracy; Financing Global Public Goods; Escaping Pernicious Dualism; Private Governance; 'Co-evolution' between State Regulation and the Private Sector; Part V: Conclusion; Lessons Learned from Privatization; About the Editors and Authors; Notes; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; References; Index;
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3470
    Parallel Title: Estache, Antonio Ppi partnerships versus ppi divorces in developing countries (or are we switching from pppi to ppdi?)
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public-private sector cooperation ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public-private sector cooperation
    Abstract: "Thirty years ago, in 1974, Chile launched the first large-scale privatization in a developing country. About 15 years later, Argentina provided a new model of global infrastructure management. Since then a variety of public-private partnerships in infrastructure have been adopted throughout the developing and transition world. These experiences add up to a large and heterogeneous enough sample of experiences from which some fairly robust conclusions on who benefited from the reforms and who did not. Because many of these experiences are also turning sour and the 'privatization' fad of the 1990s seems to be turning into an 'antiprivatization' fad, it seems important to separate facts from emotions. Estache argues that the wide differences in interpretations of the facts can be explained by wide differences in the assessment criteria used by analysts, including the definition of the baseline data chosen to assess the incremental effect of reforms. It is also driven by the sectors, the regions, and probably most important, the actors on which the analysis tends to focus. Once all these factors have been considered, a relatively fair and quantitative assessment of the prospects of the public-private relationship in infrastructure is possible. This paper--a product of the Office of the Vice President, Infrastructure Network--is part of a larger effort in the network to stimulate a debate on the effectiveness of infrastructure reforms"--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 1/3/2005 , Also available in print.
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3632
    Parallel Title: Available in another form Corporate governance and bank performance
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Corporate governance ; Privatization ; Banks and banking ; Corporate governance ; Privatization
    Abstract: "The authors jointly analyze the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership on bank performance. They argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same model. "Nonrobustness" checks (which purposely exclude some indicators) support this argument. Using data from Argentina in the 1990s, their strongest and most robust results concern state ownership. State-owned banks have poor long-term performance (static effect), those undergoing privatization had particularly poor performance beforehand (selection effect), and these banks dramatically improved following privatization (dynamic effect. However, much of the measured improvement is likely due to placing nonperforming loans into residual entities, leaving "good" privatized banks."--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/19/2005 , Also available in print.
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3681
    Parallel Title: Goldberg, Itzhak Productivity, ownership, and the investment climate
    Keywords: Industrial productivity ; Investments ; Privatization ; Industrial productivity ; Investments ; Privatization
    Abstract: "The authors use data on 27,000 firms from 50 countries, half of which are transition economies, together with the case of Serbia to examine the relationship between productivity, the investment climate, and private ownership of firms. As government capacity to address investment climate constraints is limited, the prioritization of the constraints is critical. Identification of the relative effects of various investment climate constraints and ownership on productivity should serve as a guide for such prioritization. Although ownership has recently received less attention in policy decisions than before, according to the econometric analysis of productivity reported by the authors, private ownership is an equally or more important determinant of productivity than other components of the investment climate. The importance of ownership shows that an unfinished privatization and restructuring agenda might have negative effects on productivity, in parallel to poor investment climate. Another important finding is that countries in which firms complain more about infrastructure tend to have less productive firms. "--World Bank web site
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    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3689
    Parallel Title: Noumba Um, Paul Private participation in infrastructure projects in the Republic of Korea
    Keywords: Capital investments ; Financial crises ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Capital investments ; Financial crises ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization
    Abstract: "In the aftermath of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis, the government of the Republic of Korea published a Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Act to remove the main impediments to private investment in infrastructure sectors. The implementation of the Act was followed by a steady increase in the number of PPI projects, thus spurring the modernization of the main infrastructure facilities in transport, water, electricity, and telecommunications. Despite this progress, the Korean PPI market still faces critical challenges that are probably related to its nascent stage of development. The market is dominated by five construction and engineering firms, but lacks world-class project developers. At the same time, the procurement of PPI projects takes on average four years, and competition in tenders is limited. The number of unsolicited proposals is abnormally high, whereas the number of solicited proposals remains flat. The participation of foreign firms is very limited despite the size of the market and the number of projects awarded. Although local financing is available, the maturity of financing instruments does not exceed five years for most corporate papers, and 10 years for government bonds. This paper reviews the procurement of PPI projects in Korea and benchmarks it to international best practices before proposing options for its improvement. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/25/2005 , Also available in print.
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3727
    Parallel Title: Kariuki, Mukami Small-scale private service providers of water supply and electricity
    Keywords: Water-supply ; Electric power ; Privatization ; Electric power ; Privatization ; Water supply
    Abstract: "This paper summarizes the key findings and conclusions of a literature review of small-scale private service providers (SPSPs) of water supply and electricity conducted over a six-month period in 2003. It draws on more than 400 documents-including journals, articles, reports, case studies and project reports-which have been disaggregated and referenced in a publicly available database. SPSPs appear most prevalent in countries with low coverage levels, ineffective public utilities that provide inadequate or partial services, and remote, difficult-to-access regions. SPSPs are especially prevalent in post-conflict countries and others with weak or failed states. Of the countries for which evidence of SPSPs was available, at least half fall into this category. SPSP provision of networked services appears to be significantly higher for electricity than for water supply. Most SPSPs identified through the literature are single-purpose entities established for the express purpose of delivering water supply or electricity. SPSPs take a variety of organizational forms, both for-profit and non-profit. As such, they are established for a variety of reasons, including: to meet consumer demand, respond to crises, or as part of larger business ventures. The technology used may extend upstream from distribution services to the means for producing or generating water supply or electricity, so capital needs vary accordingly. The majority of SPSPs have fewer than 50 employees and usually fewer than 10. A lack of affordable financing is a constraint for most SPSPs, which fund investments mainly through their own earnings and savings, loans from friends and family, and money borrowed from formal and informal lenders. "--World Bank web site
    Abstract: "This paper summarizes the key findings and conclusions of a literature review of small-scale private service providers (SPSPs) of water supply and electricity conducted over a six-month period in 2003. It draws on more than 400 documents-including journals, articles, reports, case studies and project reports-which have been disaggregated and referenced in a publicly available database. SPSPs appear most prevalent in countries with low coverage levels, ineffective public utilities that provide inadequate or partial services, and remote, difficult-to-access regions. SPSPs are especially prevalent in post-conflict countries and others with weak or failed states. Of the countries for which evidence of SPSPs was available, at least half fall into this category. SPSP provision of networked services appears to be significantly higher for electricity than for water supply. Most SPSPs identified through the literature are single-purpose entities established for the express purpose of delivering water supply or electricity. SPSPs take a variety of organizational forms, both for-profit and non-profit. As such, they are established for a variety of reasons, including: to meet consumer demand, respond to crises, or as part of larger business ventures. The technology used may extend upstream from distribution services to the means for producing or generating water supply or electricity, so capital needs vary accordingly. The majority of SPSPs have fewer than 50 employees and usually fewer than 10. A lack of affordable financing is a constraint for most SPSPs, which fund investments mainly through their own earnings and savings, loans from friends and family, and money borrowed from formal and informal lenders. "--World Bank web site
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: NBER working paper series working paper 11772
    Parallel Title: Hoff, Karla Ruth The creation of the rule of law and the legitimacy of property rights
    Keywords: Post-communism ; Privatization ; Right of property ; Rule of law ; Post-communism ; Privatization ; Right of property ; Rule of law
    Abstract: "How does the lack of legitimacy of property rights affect the dynamics of the creation of the rule of law? We investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-Communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is possible, that those who have "stolen" assets cannot be fully protected under a change in the legal regime towards rule of law, and that the number of agents with control rights over assets is large. We show that a demand for broadly beneficial legal reform may not emerge because the expectation of weak legal institutions increases the expected relative return to stripping assets, and strippers may gain from a weak and corrupt state. The outcome can be inefficient even from the narrow perspective of the asset-strippers"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 12/7/2005 , Also available in print.
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    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3666
    Parallel Title: Nakane, Márcio Issao Bank privatization and productivity
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Industrial productivity ; Privatization ; Banks and banking ; Industrial productivity ; Privatization
    Abstract: "Over the past decade, the Brazilian banking industry has undergone major and deep transformations with several privatizations of state-owned banks, mergers and acquisitions, closing down of troubled banks, entry by foreign banks, and so on. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of these changes in banking on total factor productivity. The authors first obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate such measures to a set of bank characteristics. Their main results indicate that state-owned banks are less productive than their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site
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    London : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 1842775286 , 1842775294
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 269 p) , 22 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The New Imperial Order : Indigenous Responses to Globalization
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Culture and globalization ; Privatization ; World politics 21st century ; Competition, International ; Indigenous peoples Government relations ; Indigenous peoples Economic conditions ; International law ; Indigenous peoples Social conditions
    Abstract: The New Imperial Order discusses the political economy of world order and the basic ideological and ontological grounds upon which the emergent global order is based. Starting from a Maori perspective it examines the development of international law and the world order of nation states. In engaging with these issues across macro and micro levels, the international arena, the national state and forms of regionalism are identified as sites for the reshaping of the global politico/economic order and the emergence of Empire. Overarching these problematics is the emergence of a new form of global d
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Critical praise for this book; About this book; About the author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction; A World in Crisis; Empire Reborn?; Globalization - Its Promise …; … And Failure; Conceptualizing Globalization; Political Economy of World Order; Hegemony and World Order; The Regionalization Debate; Globalization and the State; Indigenous Peoples and World Order; Crisis and Transformation; Issues of Research and Methodology; Spiral as Metaphor; 1 Of Order and Being: Towards an Indigenous Global Ontology
    Description / Table of Contents: Ontology and BeingThe Nature of Knowledge; The Nature of Existence; The Nature of Relationships; Modernity and the Attack on Nature and Holism; The Hermeneutic Mode; Critical Hermeneutics and the Transformative Spiral; 2 Indigenous Peoples and the World Order of Sovereign States; International Law, Indigenous Nations and Imperialism; Territorialization, Ecological Imperialism and the Taxonomizing of the World; Governmentality, the State and the Political Economy of Exclusion; Cultural Space, Populations and the Economy; State Sovereignty and the Problem of Government
    Description / Table of Contents: Liberal Internationalism, Self-Determination and the Doctrine of WardshipThe Subjugation of Indigenous Knowledge and the Construction of Populations; Education as a Technology of Domination …; … And a Site of Resistance; 3 Shaping the Liberal International Order; Transnational Networks and the Expansion of Capitalism; Contested States, United Nations; Bretton Woods and the American Agenda; Constructing the Institutions of an International Economic Order; Academic Networks and Neoliberal Economics; Decolonization and the Construction of States
    Description / Table of Contents: Subaltern Nations and the Ideology of Development4 Contested Sites: State Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination; Contested State Sovereignty; Self-Determination in International Law; The Post-Second World War Decolonization Programme; Developing International Human Rights Law; State Sovereignty and the Right to Self-Determination; Human Rights and Indigenous Self-Determination; Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena; New Mechanisms in International Law; Indigenous Sovereignty and Developmentalism; 5 Global Hegemony and the Construction of World Government
    Description / Table of Contents: The Third World Challenge to Transatlantic FordismThe Counter-Response by Industrialized Countries; The Emergence of Neoliberalism; Remoulding World Order; The Reconstitution of Democracy; Reform of the International System; Discourses of Limits; The Bretton Woods Institutions and the Disciplining of States; Undermining the United Nations; The Shift to Global Imperialism; 6 Globalization, Regionalism and the Neoliberal State: Local Engagement in New Zealand; New Regionalism and the Postmodern State; Regionalism and Hegemony in the Asia-Pacific
    Description / Table of Contents: Transforming the Keynesian Welfare State: Neoliberalism in New Zealand
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    ISBN: 0820476927 , 3631535813
    Language: English
    Pages: 220 S. , graph. Darst. , 210 mm x 148 mm
    Additional Material: graph. Darst., zahlr. Tab., Lit.Hinw.
    DDC: 330.949703
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    Keywords: Privatisierung ; Systemtransformation ; Pfadabhängigkeit ; Südosteuropa ; Kroatien ; Serbien-Montenegro ; Serbien ; Kosovo ; Nordmazedonien ; Albanien ; Privatization ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Reformpolitik ; Privatisierung ; Öffentliches Unternehmen ; Entwicklung ; Unterentwicklung ; Ursache ; Geschichte ; Einflussgröße ; Wirtschaftsindikator ; Sozialer Indikator ; Balkan Peninsula Economic conditions ; Albanien ; Serbien ; Kroatien ; Slowenien ; Bosnien-Herzegowina ; Nordmazedonien ; Montenegro ; Kosovo ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Westbalkan ; Privatisierung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Balkanhalbinsel West ; Privatisierung
    Note: Enth. 8 Beitr
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  • 77
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    Palo Alto, CA : World Bank
    ISBN: 0804752419 , 0804752427 , 0821358820
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 506 p) , ill , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Latin American development forum series
    DDC: 338.98/05
    Keywords: Privatization ; Privatization ; Privatization ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Washington, D.C : World Bank
    ISBN: 0821360434
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 364 p) , col. ill , 27 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    DDC: 338.9/009172/4
    Keywords: Economic stabilization ; Privatization ; Economic stabilization ; Privatization ; Economic stabilization ; Privatization ; Developing countries ; Developing countries ; Developing countries Economic policy ; Developing countries Politics and government ; Developing countries Economic policy ; Developing countries Politics and government
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-356) and index , This report was prepared by a team led by Roberto Zagha, under the general direction of Gobind Nankani
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  • 79
    ISBN: 9780262272865 , 0262272865
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Great divestiture
    Keywords: Privatization Great Britain ; Public welfare ; Privatization ; Public welfare Great Britain ; Privatization ; Public welfare ; Public welfare ; Privatization ; Privatization ; Public welfare ; Electronic books ; Privatization ; Public welfare. ; Privatization. ; Public welfare ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Social Security ; Privatization ; Public welfare ; Social policy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Social Services & Welfare ; Privatisierung ; Stakeholder ; Wohlfahrtseffekt ; Great Britain Social policy ; 1979- ; Great Britain Social policy ; 1979- ; Great Britain ; Great Britain Social policy 1979- ; Great Britain Social policy 1979- ; Great Britain ; Großbritannien ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Großbritannien ; Privatisierung ; Stakeholder ; Wohlfahrtseffekt ; Geschichte 1979-1997 ; Großbritannien ; Privatisierung ; Stakeholder ; Wohlfahrtseffekt ; Geschichte 1979-1997
    Abstract: Historical background -- Privatization theories and cost-benefit analysis -- Macroeconomic trends -- Firms -- Shareholders -- Employees -- Consumers -- Taxpayers -- The British Telecom case history -- Epilogue: A state without ownership.
    Abstract: The privatization carried out under the Thatcher and Major governments in Britain has been widely (although not universally) considered a success, and has greatly influenced the privatization of state industries in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Massimo Florio's systematic analysis is the first comprehensive treatment of the overall welfare impact of this broad national policy of divestiture. Using the tools of social cost-benefit analysis, Florio assesses the effect of privatization on consumers, taxpayers, firms, shareholders, and workers. His conclusion may be surprising to some; his findings suggest that the changeover to private ownership per se had little effect on long-term trends in prices and productivity in Britain and contributed to regressive redistribution.After historical and theoretical overviews of privatization and a look at macroeconomic trends in the Thatcher-Major era, Florio considers in detail the microeconomic effects of British privatization on several key groups. In successive chapters, he examines firms and productivity changes; shareholders' windfall gains and evidence of underpricing and outperformance in privatized companies; workers, management, and changes in industrial relations; consumers and the quantity and quality of goods after the change to public ownership; and taxpayers and the interplay between privatization and tax reform. He follows these chapters with a case study of British Telecom--significant not only because it was the largest divestiture of the period but also because of its influence on subsequent telecommunications privatization elsewhere. The final chapter considers the overall quantitative impact of the Thatcher-Major privatization on all sectors and its relationship with regulation and liberalization. The Great Divestiture not only offers an exhaustive analysis of the effects of the British process of privatization but also illustrates a method of inquiry and a testable research approach that could prove to be useful in similar studies of other countries
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-407) and index , Great divestiture
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    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3364
    Parallel Title: Caprio, Gerard Can the unsophisticated market provide discipline?
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Privatization ; Banks and banking ; Privatization
    Abstract: "Caprio and Honohan question the widespread belief that market discipline on banks cannot be effective in less developed financial environments. There is no systematic tendency for low-income countries to lack the prerequisites for market discipline. Offsetting factors to the weaker market and formal information infrastructures are (1) the less complex character of banking business in low-income countries; (2) the growing internationalization of these markets through the presence of foreign banks, and through international trading of the debt and equity of locally-controlled nongovernment banks; and (3) the smaller size of the business and financial community. However, continuing dominance by public sector banks in some countries limits the likely development of market monitoring, which is clearly a cause for concern, given the disappointing record of governments around the world as monitors of their self-owned banks. Countries should build on this potential for market discipline by limiting the role of explicit deposit guarantees, reducing state ownership of banks where it is prevalent, and not putting all their eggs in the supervisory basket. Greater disclosure, for example, of how risk taking is rewarded and how rating agencies earn their fees would support the development of better market monitoring. Enhancing market discipline (pillar three) is much more likely to be of use in most developing countries than addressing the refinements of the risk-weighting system of Basel II's first pillar. This paper - a joint product of the Financial Sector Operations and Policy Department and the Finance Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to provide research on what works to strengthen countries' financial systems"--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/6/2004 , Also available in print.
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  • 81
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    Washington, DC : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0821350706
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 306 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: A World Bank policy research report
    DDC: 363.6
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public utilities ; Public utilities Government policy ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public utilities ; Public utilities Government policy ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public utilities ; Public utilities
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-306)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3352
    Parallel Title: Hoff, Karla Ruth The transition from communism
    Keywords: Privatization ; Rule of law ; Privatization ; Rule of law
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 7/2/2004 , Also available in print.
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  • 83
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3185
    Parallel Title: Foster, Vivien Does infrastructure reform work for the poor?
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) Government policy ; Poor ; Privatization ; Infrastructure (Economics) Government policy ; Poor ; Privatization
    Note: "January 7, 2004 , Includes bibliographical references , Title from title screen as viewed on January 7, 2004 , Also available in print.
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  • 84
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    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3371
    Parallel Title: Soto, Raimundo On the measurement of market-oriented reforms
    Keywords: Free trade ; Privatization ; Free trade ; Privatization
    Abstract: "Loayza and Soto present policy and outcome-based ways of measuring the progress of market-oriented reforms in both traditional areas of first-generation reform and the areas of institutional reform that have been emphasized lately. These policy areas are the domestic financial system, international financial markets, international trade, the labor market, the tax system, public infrastructure and public firms, the legal and regulatory framework, and governance. For each of them, the authors first discuss the general principles underlying market-oriented reform. Second, they present various indicators of the policy stance in the area in question. And third, they present various outcome indicators of the policy stance. This paper is a product of Investment Climate Team, Development Research Group is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the process of economic reform"--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/6/2004 , Also available in print.
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  • 85
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3390
    Parallel Title: Herzberg, Benjamin Investment climate reform--going the last mile
    Keywords: Privatization ; Privatization
    Abstract: "Herzberg examines the Bulldozer Initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an innovative reform methodology that successfully overcame the lack of political will and capacity at the government level through a bottom-up approach. Using an innovative grassroots and public awareness methodology, the initiative mobilized the local business community to bulldoze barriers by identifying concrete legislative changes and advocating for their adoption and implementation. By delivering fast results--50 reforms in 150 days--the initiative won the confidence of entrepreneurs and empowered them to institutionalize permanent grassroots reform committees. The force of this lobby group created political will by putting public pressure on the politicians to do their part to enact the reforms. Most important, it carried investment climate reform the last mile by delivering concrete, quantifiable results in all sectors of the economy. Over time, the initiative is establishing a dynamic of reform and public-private partnership that will facilitate the tackling of more complicated structural reforms. Complementing the systemic approach and framework reform efforts of governments and international agencies, competitiveness partnerships mobilize the local business community to catalog concrete problems across the full spectrum of investment climate concerns, pinpoint solutions, campaign for their adoption, and follow up on reform implementation. The author attempts to determine the applicability of competitiveness partnerships to different settings by modeling the interactions between several key success factors, thus providing a pertinent tool for development professionals, government officials, and private sector advocates who wish to establish a renewed implementation dynamic through this kind of results-oriented reform process. This paper--a product of the Investment Climate Unit--is part of a larger effort in the unit to communicate best practices in investment climate reform"--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 9/8/2004 , Also available in print.
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    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (25 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Perotti, Enrico State Ownership
    Keywords: Accountability ; Constituencies ; Corporate Governance ; Degree of Autonomy ; Disclosure ; Emerging Markets ; Financial Crises ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Governments ; Institutional Capacity ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; National Governance ; Nationalization ; Political Economy ; Political Power ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Accountability ; Constituencies ; Corporate Governance ; Degree of Autonomy ; Disclosure ; Emerging Markets ; Financial Crises ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Governments ; Institutional Capacity ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; National Governance ; Nationalization ; Political Economy ; Political Power ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Accountability ; Constituencies ; Corporate Governance ; Degree of Autonomy ; Disclosure ; Emerging Markets ; Financial Crises ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Governments ; Institutional Capacity ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; National Governance ; Nationalization ; Political Economy ; Political Power ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures
    Abstract: Perotti reviews the state of thinking on the governance role of state ownership. He argues that a gradual transfer of operational control and financial claims over state assets remains the most desirable goal, but it needs to be paced to avoid regulatory capture, and the capture of the privatization process itself. In addition, the speed of transfer should be timed on the progress in developing a strong regulatory governance system, to which certain residual rights of intervention must be vested. In many countries institutional weakness limits regulatory capacity and reliability, yet the author's conclusion is that in such environments, maintaining state control undermines the very emergence of institutional capacity, and so the balance should tip toward progressively less direct state control. After all, what are "institutions" if not governance mechanisms with some degree of autonomy from both political and private interests? The gradual creation of institutions partially autonomous from political power must become central to the development of an optimal mode of regulatory governance. The author offers some suggestions about creating maximum accountability in regulatory governance, in particular creating an internal control system based on a rotating board representative of users, producers, and civic organizations, to be elected by a process involving frequent reporting and disclosure. This paper—a product of the Global Corporate Governance Forum, Investment Climate Unit—is part of a larger effort in the department to improve the understanding of corporate governance reform in developing countries
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3192
    Parallel Title: Calderán, César Greenfield foreign direct investment and mergers and acquisitions
    Keywords: Consolidation and merger of corporations ; Globalization ; Investments, Foreign ; Privatization ; Consolidation and merger of corporations ; Globalization ; Investments, Foreign ; Privatization
    Note: "January 16, 2004 , Includes bibliographical references , Title from title screen as viewed on January 16, 2004 , Also available in print.
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  • 88
    ISBN: 0415315468
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 277 S , graph. Darst., Kt
    Series Statement: Central Asia research forum series
    DDC: 338.95845
    Keywords: Entwicklung ; Auslandsinvestition ; Großunternehmen ; Privatisierung ; Kasachstan ; Investments, Foreign ; Business enterprises ; Mines and mineral resources ; Petroleum industry and trade History ; Gas industry History ; Privatization ; Kazakhstan Economic conditions 1991- ; Kazakhstan Economic conditions
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreign investment and industrial development prior to 1920 -- Restoration and reconstruction of Kazakhstan's large enterprises in the new Soviet state 1920-1940 -- The war and postwar development of the industrial economy 1940 to 1990 -- Challenges of the economic collapse after independence in 1991 -- Privatization, foreign investment, and consolidation in the principal enterprises of the nonferrous metals sector -- Privatization, foreign investment, and consolidation in the principal enterprises of the ferrous metals sector -- Foreign investment in gold mining and exploration enterprises -- Privatization and foreign investment in the principal oil enterprises and in the refineries -- Privatization, foreign investment, and consolidation in Kazakhstan's coal, natural gas, and uranium enterprises -- Privatization, foreign investment, and consolidation in the electric power and telecommunications sectors.
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  • 89
    ISBN: 1850656894 , 1850656886
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 261 S.
    Series Statement: The CERI series in comparative politics and international studies
    Uniform Title: La privatisation des etats 〈engl.〉
    DDC: 320.1
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    Keywords: Privatisierung ; Öffentlicher Sektor ; Welt ; Privatization ; Bibliografie ; Bibliografie ; Öffentliche Ausgaben ; Privatisierung ; Staat ; Staat ; Öffentliche Aufgaben ; Privatisierung
    Note: Enth. 9 Beitr , Revised and updated translation
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  • 90
    ISBN: 0821358081
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 81 p) , col. ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    DDC: 353.4/6
    Keywords: Political corruption ; Political corruption ; Privatization Corrupt practices ; Privatization Corrupt practices ; Political corruption ; Political corruption ; Privatization Corrupt practices ; Privatization Corrupt practices ; Political corruption ; Political corruption ; Privatization ; Privatization
    Note: Continues the work of the same title published in 2000 , Includes bibliographical references
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  • 91
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    Washington, D.C : World Bank
    ISBN: 0821357921
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 194 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: WBI development studies
    DDC: 363.6/068/7
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public contracts ; Public works Finance ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public contracts ; Public works Finance ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Public contracts ; Public works
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index
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  • 92
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781781951316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 301 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Utility privatization and regulation
    DDC: 363.6/098
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    Keywords: Versorgungswirtschaft ; Armut ; Privatisierung ; Lateinamerika ; Poverty ; Privatization ; Public utilities ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Privatisierung ; Verbraucher ; Versorgungsbetrieb ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lateinamerika ; Privatisierung ; Verbraucher ; Versorgungsbetrieb ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Spanien ; Privatisierung ; Verbraucher ; Versorgungsbetrieb ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; Lateinamerika ; Deregulierung
    Abstract: The authors address the question of infrastructure reforms in a novel way by focusing on the impact which they can have on consumers through the prices paid by different groups and on their access to the networks. They analyse original material from four Latin American countries - Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru - and two European countries - Spain and the UK. Access is especially relevant when considering immature systems which have not yet extended to cover the majority of the population, as is the case in many Latin American countries. The authors also address the widespread impact of privatization on the economy (via macroeconomic influences) and the more general issues of subsidies and regulation which are endemic to these industries. The book focuses on the reform of four sectors: telecommunications, electricity, gas, and water and sanitation
    Abstract: pt. I. Access, affordability and institutions -- pt. II. Country case studies
    Note: "In association with UNU World Institute for Development Economics Reserach (UNU/WIDER) , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Washington, D.C : World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 2944
    Parallel Title: Nicoletti, Giuseppe Regulation, productivity and growth
    Keywords: Privatization ; Trade regulation ; Privatization ; Trade regulation
    Note: "January 3, 2003 , Includes bibliographical references , Title from title screen as viewed on February 15, 2003 , Also available in print.
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    Washington, D.C : World Bank
    ISBN: 0821351524
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 349 p) , ill , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Health, nutrition, and population series
    DDC: 362.1
    Keywords: Community health services ; Medical care ; Medical care Government policy ; Privatization ; Public health ; Community health services ; Medical care ; Medical care Government policy ; Privatization ; Public health ; Community health services ; Medical care ; Medical care ; Privatization ; Government policy ; Public health
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 95
    ISBN: 0821355120
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 47 p) , ill , 26 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Issued also on-line (eISBN 0821355139)
    Series Statement: World Bank working paper no.5
    DDC: 363/.09172/4
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Privatization
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-47) , Issued also on-line (eISBN 0821355139).
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  • 96
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    Washington, D.C : World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3114
    Parallel Title: Majnoni, Giovanni The dynamics of foreign bank ownership
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Investments, Foreign ; Privatization ; Banks and banking ; Investments, Foreign ; Privatization
    Note: "August 6, 2003 , Includes bibliographical references , Title from title screen as viewed on August 6, 2003 , Also available in print.
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  • 97
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3129
    Parallel Title: Guasch, J. Luis Price caps, efficiency payoffs and infrastructure contract renegotiation in Latin America
    Keywords: Municipal services ; Privatization ; Municipal services ; Privatization
    Note: "August 25, 2003 , Includes bibliographical references , Title from title screen as viewed on August 27, 2003 , Also available in print.
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9780700716999 , 0700716998
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 276 S. , zahlr. graph. Darst., Kt. , 25 cm
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series Statement: Central Asia research forum
    DDC: 338.176095845
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    Keywords: Pastoral systems ; Pastoral systems ; Privatization ; Privatization ; Kasachstan ; Turkmenistan ; Viehwirtschaft ; Privatisierung
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 259 - 267
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  • 99
    ISBN: 0821351974
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vi, 31 p) , 27 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: World Bank technical paper no.526
    DDC: 338.9496/009/049
    Keywords: Privatization ; Privatization ; Balkan Peninsula Commercial policy ; Balkan Peninsula Economic policy ; Balkan Peninsula Commercial policy ; Balkan Peninsula Economic policy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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  • 100
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (40 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Grigorian, A. David Determinants of Commercial Bank Performance in Transition
    Keywords: Bank ; Banking ; Banking System ; Banks ; Banks and Banking Reform ; Consolidation ; Credit Enterprises ; Debt Markets ; Emerging Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Institutions ; Financial Literacy ; Financial Services ; Macroeconomic Stabilization ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Profitability ; Bank ; Banking ; Banking System ; Banks ; Banks and Banking Reform ; Consolidation ; Credit Enterprises ; Debt Markets ; Emerging Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Institutions ; Financial Literacy ; Financial Services ; Macroeconomic Stabilization ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Profitability ; Bank ; Banking ; Banking System ; Banks ; Banks and Banking Reform ; Consolidation ; Credit Enterprises ; Debt Markets ; Emerging Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Institutions ; Financial Literacy ; Financial Services ; Macroeconomic Stabilization ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Profitability
    Abstract: Banking sectors in transition economies have experienced major transformations throughout the 1990s. While some countries have been successful in eliminating underlying distortions and restructuring their financial sectors, in some cases financial sectors remain underdeveloped and the rates of financial intermediation continue to be quite low. Grigorian and Manole estimate indicators of commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide range of transition countries. They further extend the analysis by explaining the differences in efficiency between financial institutions and countries by a variety of macroeconomic, prudential, and institutional variables. In addition to stressing the importance of some bank-specific variables, the censored Tobit analysis suggests that: - Foreign ownership with controlling power and enterprise restructuring enhance commercial bank efficiency. - The effects of prudential tightening on the efficiency of banks vary across different prudential norms. - Consolidation is likely to improve efficiency of banking operations. Overall, the results confirm the usefulness of DEA for transition-related applications and may shed light on the optimal architecture of a banking system. This paper--a product of the Private and Financial Sector Development Unit, Europe and Central Asia Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to disseminate the results of research on transition issues. The authors may be contacted at dgrigorianimf.org or manole@wueconc.wustl.edu
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