[PDF] Contract Plans And Public Enterprise Performance eBook

Author : John R. Nellis
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Empresas estatales - Paises en desarrollo
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Contract plans help clarify goals, increase managerial autonomy, and open a dialogue between management and government -- but their benefits have been oversold.

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Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780850924381

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This book sets out in some detail the mechanisms for determining enterprise performance and a framework for assessing enterprise productivity accross the board.

Author : John R. Nellis
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Corporations, Government
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Specific divestiture dates and institutional public enterprise reform should probably not be a matter of hard conditionality for sectoral adjustment lending. One alternative is to establish institutional development projects that parallel adjustment operations. Another is to establish "primary conditions, " nonfulfillment of which would bring an operation to a halt, and "secondary conditions, " (including most institutional and public enterprise reforms), nonfulfillment of which would evoke sanctions but not end operations.

Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691188033

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In the 1980s some developing countries adopted orthodox market-oriented policies in response to international economic crises, others experimented with alternative programs, and still others failed to develop coherent adjustment strategies of any sort. Building on the case studies in Economic Crisis and Policy Choice, these essays offer comparative analysis of these divergent experiences with macroeconomic stabilization and structural adjustment. Barbara Stallings and Miles Kahler explore the external pressures on governments. Peter Evans and John Waterbury examine the role of the state in the adjustment process, Evans through the lens of earlier historical experience with economic restructuring, Waterbury by focusing on the politics of privatization. Joan Nelson analyzes the politics of income distribution in the adjustment process, and Haggard and Kaufman investigate the political correlates of inflation and stabilization. A final essay assesses the prospects for combining market-oriented reforms with political democratization.

Author : Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2016
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Frustration with the performance of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) has led to two rounds of reform: the first round, from the 1960s through the 1980s, attempted to improve SOE performance while maintaining public ownership while the second, beginning in the late 1980s, viewed privatization as the answer. Interest in the earlier round of reform has increased recently as controversy has slowed or halted privatization in many countries, especially for SOEs providing infrastructure services that are basic to everyday life and are thought to have elements of monopoly. This paper reexamines the earlier round of reforms, focusing particularly on efforts to increase the firms' capacity with infusions of human and physical capital, to strengthen managerial incentives through performance contracts and corporatization and to alter the mix of political and economic forces that impinge on the firm by strengthening the involvement of taxpayers, customers or private investors. The review suggests that these earlier approaches generated only modest success but that some of them, selectively applied, may be helpful in improving the performance of infrastructure firms that remain in public hands.

Author : John Heath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134949596

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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 inefficiency and slow rates of growth associated with public enterprise. This book discusses the underlying causes of those problems, and critically examines some of the solutions that have been adopted. Its geographical coverage is wide and it cuts across the political spectrum. The experiences of countries in four continents are analysed in an attempt to shed light on current dilemmas. Recurrent patterns are found; problems are frequently seen to be political as much as economic, and bureaucracy and administrative confusion is often found to be at the heart of poor financial performance.Yet since political aims, economic environment, and administrative and managerial capabilities vary so widely, universal solutions remain more difficult to define than universal problems.