Información General

• Autores: John Nellis (coord.)
• Editores: Center for Global Development
• Año de publicación: 2005
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 1-933286-00-8
• Enlaces
  • Texto Completo Libro (pdf)

Resumen

• The privatization of state-owned enterprises has been among the most controversial of market reforms. This new edited volume brings together a comprehensive set of country studies on the effects of privatization on people—and answers the overarching question: who are the winners and losers of the wave of privatizations that swept across the developing world in the 1980s and 1990s? The studies are sophisticated and careful, and address the big questions: Are the poorest households paying more for water, power, and other basic services? Did those who lost jobs suffer permanent declines in income? Were state assets sold at prices that were too low, and who benefited from the resulting windfalls? Was the process, in laypersons’ terms, "fair"? Some readers will be surprised at the general conclusion: that privatization has, in many cases, been a reasonably good thing, and not only for the rich. Others will be surprised at its limited effects. As privatization remains on the policy agenda despite public resistance and continuing controversy, almost all readers will want to understand the potential of privatization to stimulate competition while at the same time being fundamentally more just and fair.

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Listado de artículos

• • Privatization reality check: distributional effects indeveloping countries

    Nancy Birdsall, John Nellis

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    págs. 1-30

    

  • Cases from Latin America

    • Paradox and perception: evidence from four Latin American countries

      David McKenzie, Dilip Mookherjee

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      págs. 33-79

      

    • Inequality and welfare changes: evidence from Nicaragua

      Samuel Freije Rodríguez, Luis Rivas

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      págs. 85-121

      

    • Bolivian capitalization and privatization: approximation to an evaluation

      Gover Barja, David McKenzie, Miguel Urquiola

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      págs. 123-175

      

    • Argentina’s privatization: effects on income distribution

      Huberto M. Ennis, Santiago M. Pinto

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      págs. 179-215

      

    • Peru after privatization: are telephone consumers better off?

      Máximo Torero, Enrique Schroth, Alberto Pasco-Font

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      págs. 219-249

      

    • Distribution of assets and incomein Brazil: new evidence

      Roberto Macedo

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      págs. 253-280

      

    • Latin America’s infrastructure experience: policy gaps and the poor

      Antonio Estache

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      págs. 281-294

      

  • Cases from Asia and Transitional Economies

    • Outcomes of the Russian model

      Svetlana Pavlovna Glinkina

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      págs. 297-323

      

    • Privatization’s effectson social welfare in Ukraine: the SigmaBleyzer experience

      Michael Bleyzer, Edilberto Segura, Neal Sigda, Diana Smachtina, Victor Gekker

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      págs. 325-351

      

    • China’s shareholding reform: effects on enterprise performance

      Gary H. Jefferson, Su Jian, Jiang Yuan, Yu Xinhua

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      págs. 353-385

      

    • Assessing privatization in Sri Lanka: distribution and governance

      Malathy Knught John, Wasantha Athukorala

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      págs. 389-423