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 from "Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)" <ruglucia at PAHO.ORG> -----

Reality Check: The Distributional Impact of Privatization in Developing
Countries 

John Nellis and Nancy Birdsall, eds.
Center for Global Development, October 2005 

Website: http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/4520
<http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/4520>  

 "......The privatization of state-owned enterprises has been among the
most controversial of market reforms. This new edited volume brings 
together a  comprehensive set of country studies on the effects of
privatization on people-and answers the overarching question: who are
the winners and losers of the wave of privatizations that swept across the
developing world in the 1980s and 1990s? 

The studies address the big questions: Are the poorest households paying
more for water, power, and other basic services? Did those who 
lost jobs suffer permanent declines in income? Were state assets sold at
prices that were too low, and who benefited from the resulting
windfalls? Was the process, in laypersons' terms, "fair"? ...."

"......As privatization remains on the policy agenda despite public
resistance and continuing controversy, almost all readers will want to 
understand the potential of privatization to stimulate competition while
at the same time being fundamentally more just and fair. ..."

Download chapters of Reality Check: 

Table of Contents
<http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/Table%20of%20Contents.pdf>
(PDF)
Preface <http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/Preface.pdf> (PDF)
Chapter 1: Privatization Reality Check: Distributional Effects on
Developing Countries <http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%201.pdf>
(PDF)
Chapter 2: Paradox and Perception: Evidence from Four Latin American
Countries <http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%202.pdf>  (PDF)
Chapter 3: Inequality and Welfare Changes: Evidence from Nicaragua
<http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%203.pdf>  (PDF)
Chapter 4: Bolivian Capitalization and Privatization
<http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%204.pdf>  (PDF)
Chapter 5: Argentina's Privatization: Effects on Income Distribution
<http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%205.pdf>  (PDF)
Chapter 6: Peru after Privatization: Are Telephone Consumers Better Off?
<http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%206.pdf>  (PDF)
Chapter 7: Distribution of Assets and Income in Brazil: New Evidence
<http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%207.pdf>  (PDF)
Chapter 8: Latin America's Infrastructure Experience: Policy Gaps and
the Poor <http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%208.pdf>  (PDF)
Chapter 9: Outcomes of the Russian Model
<http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%209.pdf>  (PDF)
Chapter 10: Privatization's Effects on Social Welfare in Ukraine
<http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%2010.pdf>  (PDF)
Chapter 11: China's Shareholding Reform: Effects on Enterprise
Performance <http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%2011.pdf>  (PDF)
Chapter 12: Rethinking Privatization in Sri Lanka
<http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Privatization/ch%2012.pdf> (PDF)



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