Author: Manuel Del VallePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Privatization
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Transformation of Telecommunications in Peru, 1994-1996
Author: Manuel Del VallePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Privatization
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Privatization in Latin America
Author: Alberto ChongPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821383507
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Privatization is under attack. Beginning in the 1980s, thousands of failing state-owned enterprises worldwide have been turned over to the private sector. But public opinion has turned against privatization. A large political backlash has been brewing for some time, infused by accusations of corruption, abuse of market power, and neglect of the poor. What is the real record of privatization and are the criticisms justified? 'Privatization in Latin America' evaluates the empirical evidence on privatization in a region that has witnessed an extensive decline in the state's share of production over the past 20 years. The book is a compilation of recent studies that provide a comprehensive analysis of the record of and accusations against privatization, with important recommendations for the future. Seven countries are investigated: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. This book will be vital to anyone interested in the privatization debate but especially to those involved in civil service reform, corporate governance, economic policy, finance, and anticorruption efforts. 'Privatization is important but controversial. While economists typically favor it, others are skeptical. This book provides strong scientific evidence that privatization has been beneficial for many Latin American countries, although some privatizations failed and some groups in society lost out. As usual, the devil is in the details: how privatization is carried out and what reforms accompany it are crucial to its success. The book is definitely an invaluable contribution to the privatization debate.' --Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Telecommunications in Latin America
Author: Eli M. NoamPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195102000
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Bringing together experts on Latin American countries, and providing a comprehensive view of what individual countries are doing to build a telecommunications capability, Telecommunications in Latin America addresses the complicated economic and policy issues of each country's telecommunications. The editor and his staff have skillfully integrated the chapters into a coherent volume, keeping the information accessible to non-specialists. Particular attention is paid to telecommunications as a link in the chain of the regional development process and to the privatization process that has swept across the subcontinent. This study will be of interest to students and professionals in the areas of communication, international telecommunications companies, and country governments in Latin America.
Governing Telecommunications and the New Information Society in Europe
Author: Jacint JordanaPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1781950466
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
'. . . offers a fresh look at efforts to manage telecommunications and the emerging "information society" in Europe.ë _ Communication Booknotes Quarterly European countries have recently been involved in an extremely broad set of regulator
Trade Policy Reforms in Latin America
Author: M. LengyelPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230523765
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This volume examines the interaction between private and public institutions in the trade policy-making process of eight Latin American countries and trade bargaining in sub-regional, hemispheric and multilateral fora. Faced with expanding trade agendas, diversifying negotiation fora, and an uncertain global economy, each country has found its own niche in regional integration and global insertion, providing a wealth of idiosyncratic and convergent policies.
Public Policy for the Private Sector
Author: Venezuela's Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective
Author: Kirk A. HawkinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052176503X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This book examines the populist movement of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and argues that populism is primarily a response to widespread corruption. It defends a definition of populism as a set of ideas and measures populism across Venezuela and other countries. It also explores the influence of populist ideas on political organization and policy.
Restructuring the State
Author: María Eugenia Mujica San MartínPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Privatization
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
Author: Paul Craig RobertsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198027192
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The political and social upheavals that have transformed the economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the past ten years have sparked considerable interest and speculation on the part of Western observers. Less noted, though hardly less dramatic, has been the revolutionary spread of free market capitalism throughout much of Latin America during the same period. In a wide-ranging survey that illuminates both the history and present business climate of the region, Paul Roberts and Karen Araujo describe the economic transformation currently taking place in Latin America. And as they do so, they also reexamine many of the prevailing orthodoxies concerning international development and the regulation of markets, and point to the success of privatization and free enterprise in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile as harbingers of the economic future for both hemispheres. The potential strength of the economies of Central and South America has always been obvious, the authors point out. Abundant natural resources, combined with vast expanses of fertile land and a sophisticated and relatively cohesive social culture, are found throughout the region. But the authors show that the Latin American nations were slow to discard the economic and social climate that they had inherited from their Spanish colonial masters, who had ruled by selling government jobs--creating a network of privilege--and by suppressing through over-regulation the development of markets for goods, services, and capital. The prevalent cultural attitude in Latin America was hostile to commerce, trade, and work--indeed, it was more socially acceptable to court government privilege than to compete in markets. The authors further show that U.S. aid packages to the region actually reinforced this culture of privilege and further hampered the growth of a free economy. Not until the 1980s did the picture begin to change, largely in response to the economic crises brought on through catastrophic national debts and hyperinflation. The book describes the efforts of the Salinas, Pinochet, and Menem governments to combat the established interests of the local elites and the international development agencies, to privatized state industries, and to established independent markets. In this new climate, private capitalists and entrepreneurs are feted and celebrated, and productivity has risen to levels unimagined only a few years before. But this dramatic economic turnaround, the authors show, is a mixed blessing for the U.S. For if it provides us with a vast new market for our goods, it has also created a powerful new competitor for capital investment. To keep American and foreign capitalists investing in America, the government needs to make changes, which the authors outline in a provocative conclusion. Central and South America have a combined population of 460 million people, a potential market greater than the United States and Canada combined or the European Community. Thus the rise of free market capitalism in Latin America is of vital interest to the United States. The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America provides an insightful portrait of this dramatic economic turn-around, illuminating the economic consequences for our own society.
The World Guide 1999/2000
Author: Instituto del Tercer MundoPublisher: Oxfam Pub
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
This is a reference book which contains up-to-date facts and information on 235 countries and territories of the world. It gives individual profiles of the history, politics, environment and economics of development and gives key facts and indicators on literacy, mortality, trade, employment, schooling and health. Statistical tables provide an easy tool to compare economic and social indicators for all countries of the world. In addition to the maps of each country, there is a large fold-out map of the world. As well as the thematic section covering major development issues, more than 20 further topic boxes scattered throughout the text cover various subjects such as African cultures before colonisation, the impacts of NAFTA, ethnic groups and classes and the national conflicts in the former USSR and Hong Kong.