The paper documents the case of Uganda's telecommunications reform. Uganda is one of only two countries in Africa that decided to privatize telecommunications in a competitive framework by selling a second...
At the heart of the debate about public versus private ownership lie three questions: 1) Does competition matter more than ownership? 2) Are state enterprises more subject to welfare-reducing interventions...
The signing of a concession contract for the Buenos Aires water and sanitation system in December 1992, attracted worldwide attention, and caused considerable controversy in Argentina. It was one of the...
In the late 1980s, Chile planned to privatize Santiago's sanitary works enterprise (EMOS) but instead reformed it under public ownership. It did so through a regulatory framework that mimicked the design...
The East Asian financial crisis - fallout for private power projects, by R. David Gray and John Schuster. Contingent liabilities for infrastructure projects - implementing a risk management framework for...
When privatization is not feasible or palatable, developing country governments seeking to improve the performance of state enterprises are often negotiating performance contracts with their managers...
Rationing can backfire: the "day without a car" in Mexico City. Prices and protocols in public health care. Formal and informal regulation of industrial pollution: comparative evidence from Indonesia and...
Privatization of state-owned assets was a central economic reform of the 1980s and 1990s. Lack of data has made it impossible to judge the extent to which privatization has diminished the importance of...
The authors analyze experience with written performance contracts between developing country governments and the managers of their state-owned enterprises. Such contracts have been a vogue since the mid-1980s...
This note presents the key findings from "Bureaucrats in Business: The Economics and Politics of Government Ownership" (World Bank 1995), on the reform of state enterprises. It also assesses why so few...
Evaluating social policies: principles and U.S. experience. Using randomized control designs in evaluating social sector programs in developing countries. AIDS and African development. Privatization: lessons...
In the past decade governments all over the world have begun privatizing state enterprises - indeed, it is becoming quite hard to find a country without a program of privatization under way or at least...
This book reviews experiences with state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and their privatization in developing and industrial countries and extracts salient themes and lessons for the successful design and implementation...
This book tries to systematize the lessons learned in the past two decades of public enterprise reform to correct the perceived deficiencies of state-enterprise sectors in Africa, Asia, and Latin America...
This book tries to systematize the lessons learned in the past two decades of public enterprise reform to correct the perceived deficiencies of state-enterprise sectors in Africa, Asia, and Latin America...
This book tries to systematize the lessons learned in the past two decades of public enterprise reform to correct the perceived deficiencies of state-enterprise sectors in Africa, Asia, and Latin America...
In 1983 Korea dramatically changed the way it managed the largest and most important group of its public enterprises, or GIEs. The reforms increased enterprise autonomy, changed managerial selection procedures...
The state-owned sector in developing countries tends to be large, diverse, and often - when the Bank gets involved - in a state of illiquidity or on the verge of collapse. While approaches have to fit...
This report assesses the performance evaluation system being used for industrial public enterprises in Pakistan. The assessment aims to assist the Pakistani government in strengthening the system as needed...
Divestiture which may involve (a) liquidation, (b) privatization of ownership, or (c) privatization of management is becoming of rising interest as a means of rehabilitating or reforming state enterprises...