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Reality Check
. Ed(S): Nellis, John; Birdsall, Nancy
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Paperback. Throughout the 1990's, privatization of inefficient state-owned enterprises was strongly embraced in developing and transitional economies. Little attention has gone to the distributional implications of the privatization movement, a particularly surprising oversight given the current backlash in many settings against further privatization. Editor(s): Nellis, John; Birdsall, Nancy. Num Pages: 442 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KJVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
Throughout the 1990's, privatization of inefficient state-owned enterprises was strongly embraced in developing and transitional economies. Little attention has gone to the distributional implications of the privatization movement, a particularly surprising oversight given the current backlash in many settings against further privatization. This book offers a comprehensive set of country-specific studies on the effects of privatization on people —winners and losers in different income, employment, and education groups. The studies analyze the changes in public tax revenue from privatized enterprises, shifts in pension and other liabilities, and changes in income of different groups.
Contributors include David McKenzie (Stanford University), ... Read more
Throughout the 1990's, privatization of inefficient state-owned enterprises was strongly embraced in developing and transitional economies. Little attention has gone to the distributional implications of the privatization movement, a particularly surprising oversight given the current backlash in many settings against further privatization. This book offers a comprehensive set of country-specific studies on the effects of privatization on people —winners and losers in different income, employment, and education groups. The studies analyze the changes in public tax revenue from privatized enterprises, shifts in pension and other liabilities, and changes in income of different groups.
Contributors include David McKenzie (Stanford University), ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Centre for Global Development United States
Number of pages
442
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781933286006
SKU
V9781933286006
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About . Ed(S): Nellis, John; Birdsall, Nancy
John Nellis is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development. Prior to launching the center, Birdsall was senior associate and director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1993 to 1998, Birdsall was executive vice president of the Inter-American Development ... Read more
Reviews for Reality Check
"Privatization was one of the key elements that helped to jump-start economic revival in Latin America in the 1990s. But politically, it has always been a difficult sell: Critics claim it rewards the wealthy and the foreign at the expense of the poor and the local. The studies in this book show that this is not the case; privatization's bad ... Read more