Privatization: Successes and Failures

The privatization of large state-owned enterprises is one of the most radical policy developments of the last quarter century. Right-wing governments have privatized in an effort to decrease the size of government, while left-wing governments have privatized either to compensate for the failures of state-owned firms or to generate revenues. In this way, privatization has spread from Europe to Latin America, from Asia to Africa, reaching its zenith...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231141602
• ISBN13: 9780231141604
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"