Privatisation and Development: Theory, Policy and Evidence

ISBN-13: 9780815391166 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str.

Claude V. Chang

Opis

The book interrogates privatisation in terms of its effectiveness vis-à-vis its stated goals and more fundamentally in terms of its success in delivering economic development. It investigates why privatisation was successful in the UK and other OECD countries and why it has not met with equal success in developing countries.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Part I Privatisation and Development: Privatisation and development: an overview. Part II Liberalisation and Consequences: Economic determinism as liberalisation; Inequality and consequences. Part III Privatisation and Development at Cross Purposes: Goals of privatisation; Techniques of privatisation; Eastern European countries and Russia. Part IV The Guyana Experience: A Country Study: Guyana: from recovery to 'at a tipping point'; The GEC: anatomy of a failed privatisation. Part V Concluding Policy Perspective: In praise of a holistic approach; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Claude V. Chang is an Independent Consultant and Researcher. He was Secretary to the Treasury of Guyana and ex-officio member of the board of the Central Bank. Chang was also Adviser to the Public Accounts Committee, Guyana Parliament, and a former Member of the Governing Council of the University of Guyana. Chang has over 20 years international experience in the telecommunications industry in the US, Barbados, Guam and Guyana. He contributed a book chapter to DFID-funded Centre on Regulation and Competition at the University of Manchester, and contributed to the African Development Report 1999.