Privatization and control of state-owned enterprises /

The chapters in this volume contain partial answers to a question that governments of developing countries addressed with renewed interest in the 1980s: what can be done to improve the performance of state-owned enterprises that play a prominent role in the economy and absorb substantial public reso...

• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial. Instituto de Desarrollo Económico
• Other Authors: Ramamurti, Ravi, ed, Vernon, Raymond, ed
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank. Economic Development Institute, 1991
• Series: EDI development studies
• Subjects: EMPRESAS PUBLICAS; PRIVATIZACION; PAISES EN DESARROLLO; ESTUDIOS DE CASOS; TERCER MUNDO

Table of Contents:

• About the contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction / Ravi Ramamurti and Raymond Vernon
• 1. The search for remedies / Ravi Ramamurti
• Pt. 1. Privatization: Essays
• 2. Selling state-owned enterprises: a cost-benefit approach / Leroy P. Jones, Pankaj Tandon, and Ingo Vogelsang
• 3. A technical approach to privatization issues: coupling project analysis with rules of thumb / Raymond Vernon
• 4. On measuring the success of privatization / Yair Aharoni
• Case studies: 5. Privatization through public offerings: lessons from two Jamaican cases / Roger Leeds
• 6. Privatization through private sale: the Bangladeshi textile industry / Klaus Lorch
• 7. Privatization through leasing: the Togo steel case / Ivan Bergeron
• Pt. 2. Controlling state-owned enterprises: Essays
• 8. Performance evaluation for state-owned enterprises / Leroy P. jones
• 9. Controlling state-owned enterprises / Ravi Ramamurti
• Case studies: 10. Evaluating the performance of state-owned enterprises in Pakistan / Mary Shirley
• 11. Contract plans: a review of international experience / John Nellis
• Index