This book explores the complex question, "Is privatisation a good public policy?"

Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in wea

Deregulation, privatization and marketization have become the bywords for the reforms and debates surrounding the public sector. This major book is unique in it

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 countr

In many parts of the world public enterprise is in crisis. Privatisation programmes are being widely touted as the solution to many of the problems of inefficie