Download or read book Privatization written by John K. Needham and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State and local governments have increased their use of privatization over the last several years, and Congress and the administration have indicated an interest in having the federal government also increase its use of privatization. This report identifies major lessons learned by, and the related experiences of, state and city governments in implementing privatization efforts. It discusses privatization lessons learned by, and the related experiences of, the states of Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Virginia as well as the city of Indianapolis, IN. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Privatization written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privatization written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privatization written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of state and local governments have successfully shifted functions or responsibilities to the private sector, usually through contracting or managed competition. Lessons learned from these experience may be helpful to the federal government as it pursues its own privatization efforts. This report discusses privatization efforts in the states of Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Virginia as well as the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Download or read book Privatization written by États-Unis. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privatization written by United States. General Accounting Office. General Government Division and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privatization written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PRIVATIZATION LESSONS LEARNED BY STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 158290 B 271979 U S GAO MARCH 14 1997 written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems in Privatization Theory and Practice in State and Local Governments written by Fred W. Becker and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becker (policy and management, Florida International University) begins with an overview of the problems to be discussed, including propriety, legitimacy, political feasibility, administration challenges, and negative impacts associated with privatization. He goes on to discuss these issues in detail, with particular attention to the expanding scope of privatization, the types of organizations suited to perform the work of government, the dynamics of public- private partnerships, and recommendations for correcting the negative effects suffered by the providers and recipients of privatized services. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Privatization Lessons Learned by State and Local Governments written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privatization written by U. S. Government Accountability Office ( and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO identified critical questions that state and local decisionmakers found useful when considering whether to privatize a government activity, focusing on lessons learned concerning: (1) political champion issues; (2) implementation structure; (3) legislative and resource changes; (4) reliable cost data; (5) strategies for workforce transition; and (6) monitoring and oversight. GAO noted that: (1) the six governments it visited tailored their approaches to privatization to their particular political, economic, and labor environments; (2) in the six governments, a political leader or, in one case, several leaders working in concert, played a crucial role in introducing privatization; (3) five of the six governments GAO reviewed established governmentwide commissions to identify privatization opportunities among government activities and to set policies to guide privatization initiatives; (4) the commissions were created either by the chief executive or by the state legislature; (5) the governments found that privatization can take various forms, such as contracting out and assets sales, and that implementation strategies and analyses need to be tailored to the project or situation and will likely vary depending on the form of privatization; (6) governments may need to enact legislative changes and reduce resources available to government agencies in order to encourage greater use of privatization; (7) most of the governments GAO surveyed used estimated cost data, because obtaining complete cost and performance data by activity from their accounting systems was difficu
Download or read book Experiments in Reinventing Government written by David Maturo and published by . This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past fifty years have witnessed the increasing size and inefficiency of many aspects of the United States government. They also give testimony to the accelerating involvement of the government in many aspects of American life, particularly in economic and business activity. Since the beginning of the deregulating Reagan Administration in 1980, government spending, ownership, and intervention have been seriously questioned, sparking the dawn of the public vs. private debate. At the heart of the debate is privatization, or the transfer of goods and service delivery from the government to the private sector. It means relying more on private institutions and less on government to satisfy societal needs. With privatization, the government can cease the challenge and complexity of providing goods and services to the public, and begin the more manageable task of simply ensuring that they are provided. Privatization helps guide the ship of government to a more efficient and effective management strategy of steering rather than rowing. This book takes you into the government of the fifth largest city in the United States, Philadelphia, and reveals: (a) the concept of privatization, how it originated and how government and others perceive it; (b) the advantages and disadvantages of privatization; (c) what environments and initiatives allow privatization to work most effectively and those that inhibit it – when it is most appropriate and likely to succeed; (d) Philadelphia’s stance and approach to privatization and how the government there implemented privatization initiatives, how they turned out and what lessons were learned; (e) based on the above theoretical and empirical analysis, the DOs and DON’Ts for state and local governments to consider in the future when experimenting or executing privatization initiatives.
Download or read book Privatization written by United States. President's Commission on Privatization and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons Learned from the Privatization of Sallie Mae written by U. S. Department U.S. Department of the Treasury and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 29, 2004, in a ceremony at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA), a government-sponsored enterprise or GSE, ceased to exist. On that day Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Wayne Abernathy signed documents that completed the historic transformation of the GSE into SLM Corporation, a fully private sector corporation, nearly four years sooner than the law required. This moment marked the culmination of over a decade of work on the part of the government and the private sector to transform a congressionally chartered, quasi-public entity into a successful private sector company. The process of converting Sallie Mae, as the GSE was commonly known, into a fully private corporation meant that the GSE ceased issuing tens of billions of dollars of GSE debt. Eliminating this debt also eliminated the perceived risk to taxpayers that the Federal government might step in and bail out the GSE if it failed. The conversion also did away with SLMAs special privileges, including its $1 billion contingent line of credit with Treasury and its exemption from state and local taxes. The privatization of SLMA is a success story. But what was it about SLMA that made it possible? Are there lessons that the government can glean from the SLMA experience? How and why was SLMA able to successfully cut its ties to the government and become a fully private-sector company? This paper seeks to answer these and other questions through an examination and analysis of events leading to SLMA's privatization, the wind down itself, and the markets in which SLMA operates.
Download or read book Beyond Privatization written by Lester M. Salamon and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1989 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privatization written by John R. Nellis and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance, as defined by the World Bank in its 1992 report, Governance and Development, is the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources for development. The report deemed it is within the Bank's mandate to focus on the following: -the process by which authority is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources -the capacity of governments to design, formulate, and implement policies and discharge functions. Also available: Governance: The World Bank's Experience (ISBN 0-8213-2804-2) Stock No. 12804.
Download or read book Privatization of Water Services in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-09-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the quest to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of water and wastewater services, many communities in the United States are exploring the potential advantages of privatization of those services. Unlike other utility services, local governments have generally assumed responsibility for providing water services. Privatization of such services can include the outright sale of system assets, or various forms of public-private partnershipsâ€"from the simple provision of supplies and services, to private design construction and operation of treatment plants and distribution systems. Many factors are contributing to the growing interest in the privatization of water services. Higher operating costs, more stringent federal water quality and waste effluent standards, greater customer demands for quality and reliability, and an aging water delivery and wastewater collection and treatment infrastructure are all challenging municipalities that may be short of funds or technical capabilities. For municipalities with limited capacities to meet these challenges, privatization can be a viable alternative. Privatization of Water Services evaluates the fiscal and policy implications of privatization, scenarios in which privatization works best, and the efficiencies that may be gained by contracting with private water utilities.
