The privatization of large state-owned enterprises is one of the most radical policy developments of the last quarter century. Right-wing governments have priva

Chiefly papers originally presented at a conference held in Washington, D.C., February 1986, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the

Privatization is under attack. Beginning in the 1980s, thousands of failing state-owned enterprises worldwide have been turned over to the private sector. But p

Chapter One of Privatization: Policies, Developments and Challenges is to discuss the elements that caused the latest and current problems in the European econo

In the last decades of the 20th century, privatization has been a key policy instrument in the move to more market-based economic systems in all parts of the de