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Book Privatization in Latin America

Download or read book Privatization in Latin America written by Alberto Chong and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book An Opportunity for a Different Peru

Download or read book An Opportunity for a Different Peru written by Marcelo Giugale and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in the republican history of Peru, the presidential transition takes place in democracy, social peace, fast economic growth and favorable world markets. In other words, there has never been a better chance to build a different Peru - a richer country, more equal and governable. There are multiple ways to achieve that goal. New reforms must stem from a widespread and participatory debate, one of a common vision conceived for and by Peruvians. This book aims at making a technical and independent contribution to such debate; it summarizes the knowledge available about the challenges to be faced by the new administration. The study does not recommend silver bullets, but suggests policy options. It is based on the analysis of the current reality and in six decades of relationships with Peru, in which the Bank has implemented more than 100 projects and prepared more than 500 technical reports covering the wide range of development topics. When necessary, the study provides lessons that the Bank has learned elsewhere. The study provides a conceptual framework to the analysis of the country's 34 economic sectors and the two historical perspectives behind them. In doing so, it offers a comprehensive reform agenda that sheds light on possible priorities and courses of action.

Book Peru Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information

Download or read book Peru Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peru Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information

Book Global Privatization Laws and Regulations Handbook   Caribbean Countries  Privatization and Investment Opportunities

Download or read book Global Privatization Laws and Regulations Handbook Caribbean Countries Privatization and Investment Opportunities written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Global Privatization Laws and Regulations Handbook. Vol. 9. Caribbean Countries

Book Peru Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information

Download or read book Peru Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peru Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information

Book Minerals Yearbook

Download or read book Minerals Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LA C Business Bulletin

Download or read book LA C Business Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book High Risk  High Return Investing

Download or read book High Risk High Return Investing written by Lawrence W. Tuller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1994-01-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to make unconventional, offbeat but always calculated speculative investments. Contains sound financial planning and prudent investment management guidance. Explores emerging, undervalued, third-world stock markets, debt/equity swaps and reverse LBOs. Securitized assets, troubled and start-up companies, foreclosed properties and junk bonds are also included.

Book Foreign Direct Investment Policy and Promotion in Latin America

Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment Policy and Promotion in Latin America written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-06 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workshop proceedings examines foreign direct investment policy and promotion in Latin America.

Book Privatization and Emerging Equity Markets

Download or read book Privatization and Emerging Equity Markets written by Ira W. Lieberman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text provides an overview of privatization and emerging equity markets describes the role of privatization providing critical mass for new stock markets and examines investment opportunities that deepen existing stock markets.

Book Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion

Download or read book Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion written by Kurt Weyland and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization of the early 1980s has spread throughout Latin America and beyond even though many poor countries that have privatized their social security systems, including Bolivia and El Salvador, lack some of the preconditions necessary to do so successfully. In a major step beyond conventional rational-choice accounts of policy decision-making, this book demonstrates that bounded--not full--rationality drives the spread of innovations across countries. When seeking solutions to domestic problems, decision-makers often consider foreign models, sometimes promoted by development institutions like the World Bank. But, as Kurt Weyland argues, policymakers apply inferential shortcuts at the risk of distortions and biases. Through an in-depth analysis of pension and health reform in Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Peru, Weyland demonstrates that decision-makers are captivated by neat, bold, cognitively available models. And rather than thoroughly assessing the costs and benefits of external models, they draw excessively firm conclusions from limited data and overextrapolate from spurts of success or failure. Indications of initial success can thus trigger an upsurge of policy diffusion.

Book OECD Investment Policy Reviews  Peru 2008

Download or read book OECD Investment Policy Reviews Peru 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows Peru's achievements in establishing and open and transparent investment regime with a limited number of restrictions, enabling it to rank among the most open economies.

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Download or read book Peru written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Andean Countries Mining Industry Handbook   Strategic Information and Regulations

Download or read book Andean Countries Mining Industry Handbook Strategic Information and Regulations written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Andean Development Corporation (CAF) Handbook

Book Reforming Infrastructure

Download or read book Reforming Infrastructure written by Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.

Book Facilitating Foreign Participation in Privatization

Download or read book Facilitating Foreign Participation in Privatization written by Kathy Megyery and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on ways in which community financing can support formal and primary education in the wake of decentralization. The report considers not only monetary financing, but community contributions of materials, labor, expertise, and land as well. An examination of the volume, nature, and mechanics of community financing in a range of settings is followed by a discussion of policy issues facing governments, specific strategies from various countries, and the importance of monitoring and evaluation. Country case studies and best practices are provided.