Enterprise Reform And Privatization In Socialist Economies

Author : Barbara W. Lee
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821316665
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enterprise Reform and Privatization in Socialist Economies written by Barbara W. Lee and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State-owned enterprises were the dominant players in socialist economies during the past four decades. Yet most such governments had become dissatisfied with these enterprises over time. Among the main problems were: -- Inefficiencies of production methods -- Stagnating production rates -- Poor quality of the items produced -- High pollution rates -- Lack of technological innovation This report review the attempts of seven socialist countries to reform their state-owned enterprises -- Algeria, China, Hungary, Laos, Mozambique, Poland, and Yugoslavia. The report assesses the experience of these countries to date and forecasts future prospects for reform. Through their analysis, the augthors provide guidance for other socialist countries seeking to open their economies.

Author : Stanley Fischer
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Issues in Socialist Economy Reform written by Stanley Fischer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privatization in Reforming Socialist Economies written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ezra Suleiman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000232662
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy Of Public Sector Reform And Privatization written by Ezra Suleiman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book suggests some of the ways in which levels of development shape public sector reform and privatization in developed and developing countries, showing that conservative as well as socialist governments were committed to increasing the state's guiding role in the political economy.

Author : Bruno Dallago
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349123935
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privatization and Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist Countries written by Bruno Dallago and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the processes of privatization and entrepreneurial formation by countries and subjects, and points out the different features they acquire in various post-socialist countries through an interdisciplinary and historico-comparative approach.

Author : Ira W. Lieberman
Publisher : Jai
ISBN 13 : 076231463X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privatization in Transition Economies written by Ira W. Lieberman and published by Jai. This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions from a diverse group of authors each of whom have worked extensively on privatization and related reforms, such as restructuring and bankruptcy, in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), sometimes referred to as the Former Soviet Union, and South East Europe (SEE). A chapter on Chinese state enterprise reforms and privatization has been included in this volume due to China??'s importance economically and politically, its successful reform program to-date and its unique approach to reforms. The volume is largely a retrospective of the ten or so years of reform from 1990 to 2000, focused on privatization in the transition countries since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the peaceful revolutions in Poland and in then Czechoslovakia (now the Czech and Slovak Republics), the break-up of the Soviet Union and the formation of the Russian Federation. Most of the contributors to this volume worked closely with the leading reformers in Government during this period to assist them in designing and implementing their privatization programs. One of the contributors was directly involved in the process as a leading reformer in his country, as a Deputy Minister of Economy and as Director of its Privatization Agency. For the most part, sufficient time has passed to allow the authors to now treat their subject objectively. Serbia and China are unique in comparison to the other countries discussed in this volume, as their state enterprise reform and privatization programs are still on going. China started earlier than the other transition economies, but continue to the present time, due to what someanalysts have described as a more gradualist approach to reforms that the other transition economies. Serbia was a late reformer due to the break-up of Yugoslavia, the conflict in the region and its years of isolation. Also, Serbia had to deal with the legacy of socially owned enterprises, not state-owned enterprises as in the other transition economies. Serbia is now in the process of trying to determine how to wind-up its program. While the volume is primarily a retrospective, the overview chapter provides lessons learned on banking and infrastructure reforms and the concluding chapter on lessons learned is forward looking. There is still much to do in many of these countries, especially in the CIS and SEE, the Asian transition economies such as Viet Nam and eventually in North Korea and Cuba. The concluding chapter draws concrete lessons from the earlier experience that could be of value to these countries. As such, this volume is a unique contribution to the current academic literature on the transition economies and on privatization. *Original articles by experts on their subjects *One of the contributors was directly involved in the process as a leading reformer in his country

Author : John R. Nellis
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821321812
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privatization written by John R. Nellis and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance, as defined by the World Bank in its 1992 report, Governance and Development, is the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources for development. The report deemed it is within the Bank's mandate to focus on the following: -the process by which authority is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources -the capacity of governments to design, formulate, and implement policies and discharge functions. Also available: Governance: The World Bank's Experience (ISBN 0-8213-2804-2) Stock No. 12804.

Author : Branko Milanović
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780873325684
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberalization and Entrepreneurship written by Branko Milanović and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1989 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book starts from the premise that economic liberalization - reduced state interference in economic life - is the common element in the current trend towards privatization and deregulation in the West and economic reform and restructuring in the East. In popular parlance, "privatization" and "perestroika" are its watchwords, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev its heralds. But the specific character of the liberalization will be determined by the social characteristics of different societies. In order to study the reform process in the two systems, it is necessary to dispose of a general conceptual framework capable of embracing both a (predominantly) market economy and a (predominantly) centrally planned economy. The key objective of this work is to provide such a unified framework, and on that basis to analyze the policy conflicts that dominated both systems in the 1980s and the prospects for further change in the years ahead.

Author : S. I. Shatalov
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privatization in the Soviet Union written by S. I. Shatalov and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic initiative has passed from the center to the republics, some of which have already moved from legislation to implementation of their own republic divestiture policies. In an optimistic scenario, this trend will continue. But even under the most pessimistic scenario, it is unlikely that privatization processes identified in this study will be stopped.

Author : John Heath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134875037
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revitalizing Socialist Enterprise written by John Heath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe, immediate concerns for the former socialist states have been largely economic. However, whilst much has been written about government policies, relatively little has addressed change at the enterprise level. This book does this by means of case studies and careful cross-country comparisons.