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Throughout the world, governments are reducing their involvement in the area of telecommunications. The situation in six Asian countries, four European countries, and two Latin American countries are examined. In addition, there is one chapter on the telecommunications business in developing countries as a whole.

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This work surveys the situation in Central Europe in the early 1990s. This was the period when the governments of Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Slovenia and other independent states of former Yugoslavia, were experimenting with privatisation and economic reform.

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The post-communist European countries have faced enormous political and economic problems in attempting the transformation to a market oriented economy through two of the most important channels influencing this processprivatization and foreign investments.

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Before the energy crisis of the 1970s, electricity provision was a non-issue the world over, but the crisis of 1973 induced policymakers worldwide to consider private and restructured electricity provision as an alternative to unified, publicly and privately owned systems.

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These essays examine how privatization in Central and Eastern Europe is perceived and implemented showing how economic reform is pursued at the expense of social welfare.

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As import-substitution industrialization yields to increasing market liberalization in Latin America in the 1990s, privatization assigns new roles to both the public and private sectors. However, privatization represents a mhallenge for the private sector as much as it is an issue for the public sector.

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This is a guide to the privatization of industry, agriculture and services provided by governments in the developing world. The handbook intends to enable officials of these states to initiate privatization strategies and to develop their own plans with the help of local civil servants.

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Challenging the prevailing view of privatization, this book analyzes the state of privatization around the world and offers policy suggestions.

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This book offers an expert examination of the ideology and motives behind the privatization or the nationalization of an industry, based on real case studies.

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Providing an in-depth case study of a highly successful public-private partnership, this book offers valuable insights for privatizing an existing public service. By offering a detailed analysis of a very successful privatization experience, the book provides a useful tool for those concerned with privatization issues.

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Privatization can be implemented in the financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the transportation system. These essays focus on ideas and innovations for expanding the private role in transportation, for airports, waterports, roads and mass transit.

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First time in paperback: Based on unprecedented access to the Chandler dynasty, the best-selling story of Otis Chandler, media mogul extraordinaire and former owner of the Los Angeles Times

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Shows why aiding an industry can be a politically efficient way for a government to redistribute resources from one industrial sector to another. This book explores how electoral rules, party strength, and industrial geography affect redistribution politics across countries.

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Written for human resources managers and executives, this book takes a pragmatic approach to a problem all organizations face, but is often neglected in management handbooks: what to do about the problem employee

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Based on a major new study, a revision of the leading guide to new-product development for senior management, by the inventor of its most widely practiced approach

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Product standards, regulations, and conformity assessment procedures are important and necessary, but they also, at times, threaten the free flow of goods in international markets and the competitive positions of many exporters. In this book Alan O. Sykes illustrates how standards and regulations create trade barriers, explores the extent of the problem, and considers possible policy responses.

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The test of any performance system is how well it affects behavior. The systems described herein have a profound impact on the behavior of managers throughout financial depositories in areas such as origination, servicing and brokerage product-line operating units, deposit-gathering branches, portfolio managers, and origination sales offices.

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One of the usual assumptions in economic theory is that an entity called a commodity can be measured or that the amount of it can be represented by any real number. The functions (or other types of mapping) with which the economist deals, such as production functions, demand curves, and cost functions are assumed to be defined for real number array

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Perkins argues that development theory can be improved by considering the causal effects of precapitalist structures in developing countries on their transition to capitalism.