Does privatization deliver? : highlights from a World Bank conference

This volume summarizes the presentations at a two-day World Bank conference on the welfare effects of privatization, held in Washington, D.C. on June 11-12, 1992, and attended by some 100 senior policymakers, academics, and advisers from around the world. Its objective was to disseminate the finding...

• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial. Instituto de Desarrollo Económico
• Other Authors: Galal, Ahmed, ed, Shirley, Mary M, ed
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank. Economic Development Institute 1994
• Series: EDI development studies
• Subjects: PRIVATIZACION; BANCO MUNDIAL; ESTUDIOS DE CASOS; APLICACIONES; CASOS PRACTICOS; BIRF

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• About the contributors
• Pt. 1. The context: 1. Overview / Ahmed Galal and Mary Shirley
• 2. A changing course toward privatization / Lawrence H. Summers
• 3. Privatization: lessons from New Zealand / Roger Douglas
• Pt. 2. Approach and case studies: 4. Questions and approaches to answers / Leroy Jones
• 5. The United Kingdom / Ingo Vogelsang
• 6. Chile / Ahmed Galal
• 7. Mexico / Pankaj Tandon
• 8. Malaysia / Leroy Jones
• Pt. 3. Synthesis and policy implications: 9. Winners and losers in privatization / Leroy Jones
• 10. Policy implications / Ahmed Galal
• 11. The Jigsaw puzzle / Nancy Birdsall
• Index