T he supposed failure of privatization in Latin America has recently become the source of street riots, protest demonstrations, and adverse news coverage. Riots in Arequipa, Peru, erupted in June 2002 following the announcement of a proposal to privatize power plants, while Cochabamba, Bolivia, witnessed a so-called water war in April 2000. Antiprivatization protests also occurred recently in E...

This article analyzes current trends in toll motorway privatization in Europe as an illustration of the paradox of simultaneous deregulation/ privatization and reregulation. Changes in the form of government intervention are identified as transitions from internal control on processes and inputs to external control on performance outputs. The state guarantees its capability to intervene and see...

China’s industrial state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are commonly perceived as performing poorly. This leads authors to conclude that SOE reform so far has been a failure, and to recommend all-out privatization. Industrial SOE profitability indeed declined drastically in the course of the reform period, and industrial SOEs are always less profitable than industrial non-SOEs. However, the gap betwe...

The Current State of the Debate privatization of infrastructure in many developing countries has spawned new critiques of Mary Shirley privatization. How do theory Patrick Walsh and empirical evidence answer the much-debated questions, Which is more important to performance, competition or private ownership? Are state enterprises more subject to welfare-reducing interventions by government than...

This paper is aimed at theoretically analyzing the environmental implications of privatization, adopted by many developing countries, using a three-sector general equilibrium model. The partially privatized firm owns monopolistic position in upstream market and offers an essential intermediate input for downstream manufacturing sector. Both generate pollution that harms agricultural productivit...

The study will trace the external factors influencing the liberalization, deregulation and privatization of higher education in Malaysia from 1970 to the present and to analyze the effects of liberalization, deregulation and privatization on the modes of privatization and the internal restructuring of institutions of higher learning to increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve quality. In t...

based on the theoretical and empirical evidences, the most important goal the privatization is to increase the efficiency and improve the fiscal status of the government and the government enterprises. one of the key factors for implementation of the privatization policy in iran is to overcome the inefficiency and fiscal problems of the government sector. the paper studies the privatization per...

This paper investigates the determinants of political support for the privatization of education in the UK. The electorate is assumed to apply cost-benefit calculations, depending on their circumstances; a set of criteria for evaluating educational reforms is linked to individual voters' characteristics. It is then possible to identify which voters would oppose or advocate educational reforms s...

Using data on Indian government-owned …rms, we investigate the e¤ect of privatization on the performance of these …rms. Our results suggest that privatization is positively associated with the pro…tability and e¢ ciency of of government-owned …rms. Despite the small number of transactions, selling majority equity stakes to private owners has an economically signi…cant impact on …rm performance....

Privatizing data is a useful strategy for increasing parallelism in a shared memory multithreaded program. Independent cores can compute independently on duplicates of shared data, combining their results at the end of their computations. Conventional approaches to privatization, however, rely on explicit static or dynamic memory allocation for duplicated state, increasing memory footprint and ...