Fertility in Developing Countries
In: Understanding Poverty, p. 143-160
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In: Understanding Poverty, p. 143-160
In: International affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4, p. 724-725
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Volume 76, Issue 302, p. 154-166
ISSN: 1474-029X
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 12943
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In: Corporate governance: an international review, Volume 14, Issue 4, p. 234-265
ISSN: 1467-8683
We survey empirical studies examining privatisation's effects in developing economies. Most of these studies find that privatisation yields improvements in the operating and financial performance of divested firms, and only a handful document outright performance declines after privatisation. Almost all studies that examine post‐privatisation changes in output, efficiency, profitability, capital investment spending and leverage document significant increases in the first four measures and significant declines in leverage. The studies examined here are far less unanimous regarding the impact of privatisation on employment levels in privatised firms. Studies that explicitly address the sources of post‐privatisation performance improvement using data from multiple non‐transition economies tend to find stronger efficiency gains for firms in regulated industries, in firms that restructure operations after privatisation, and in countries providing greater amounts of shareholder protection.
In: World Bank discussion papers 11
World Affairs Online
In: Studies in comparative international development, Volume 29, Issue 2, p. 126-127
ISSN: 0039-3606
In: Development and change, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 48-67
ISSN: 1467-7660
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 1-27
In: South-East Asian spectrum, Volume 2, Issue 1, p. 44-49
World Affairs Online
In: Public administration: the journal of the Australian regional groups of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, Volume 30, Issue 2, p. 184-192
ISSN: 1467-8500
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Volume 85, Issue 1, p. 1-16
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: The world today, Volume 23, p. 13-22
ISSN: 0043-9134
Stevenson memorial lecture, Chatham house, London, Eng., Oct. 18, 1966.