In this paper, the costs and benefits of reform of the electricity industry in Australia are assessed. Issues addressed include the National Grid and the National Electricity Market, corporatisation, competitive restructuring, regulation, and privatisation.

Despite fiscal stress, public confidence in the National Health Service (NHS) remains strong; privatisation has not hollowed out the service. But if long term challenges are to be overcome, pragmatism not rhetoric should be the guide.

Silence in the context of work has different meanings across settings. Turbulence induced by privatisation previously state-owned enterprises presents a curious setting to explore worker silence. Turning silence process mass sugar factories Turkey, we examine why workers remained silent while resenting privatisation. We reflect on experiences and perceptions an unregulated neoliberal country, w...

The social security reform wave in the 1990s and early 2000s responded to rising deficits of public PAYG (pay-as-you-go) systems. Privatisation was regarded as a cure for population ageing problem believed lie under situation. Some academics were sceptic argued that privatisation not remedy problem. This paper empirically investigates validity this claim. Using simple market equilibrium conditi...

This is one of a series of analytic papers that supported the OECD's ageing study, a " horizontal " project in the sense that it involved a number of OECD directorates. The results of the entire project are summarised in Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society , OECD 1998. This document discusses the privatisation of the Chilean pension system with a special emphasis on the fiscal impacts o...