Investment Guides: Kyrgyz Republic 1998

Investment Guides: Kyrgyz Republic 1998
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1998-07-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9264163379

This investment guide for the Kyrgyz Republic identifies opportunities which are likely to interest foreign investors; provides information on the historical, political, economic, financial and legal framework; and draws attention to policy and legal areas where additional measures would be helpful.

Time to Rethink Privatization in Transition Economies?

Time to Rethink Privatization in Transition Economies?
Author: John R. Nellis
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821345030

IFC Discussion Paper No. 38.QUOTEIt is now universally acknowledged that ownership matters; that private ownership in and of itself is a major determinant of good performance in firms... Decent economic policy and well-functioning legal and administrative institutions... matter greatly as well.QUOTEThis paper looks at what happens when the shift to private ownership gets far out in front of the effort to build the institutional underpinnings of a capitalist economy. The emphasis is on what went wrong and why and what, if anything, can be done to be correct it. Proposals include renationalization and/or postponement of further privatization, both to be accompanied by measures to strengthen the managerial capacities of the state. Neither approach seems likely to produce short-term improvements. The regrettable fact is that governments that botch privatization are equally likely to botch the management of state-owned firms. In a number of Central European transition countries, privatization is living up to expectations; and there is no need for such measures. For institutionally-weak countries, the less dramatic but reasonable short-term course of action is to push ahead more slowly with case- by-case and tender privatization in cooperation with the international assistance community in hopes of producing some success stories that will lead by example.

Reforming Infrastructure

Reforming Infrastructure
Author: Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.

Tourism and Foreign Direct Investment

Tourism and Foreign Direct Investment
Author: H. Cristina Jönsson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2022-03-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100054625X

This is the first volume to examine and shed significant light on the issues, challenges and prospects presented by foreign direct investment (FDI) in tourism - a topic of increasing relevance in light of the covid-19 pandemic and economic consequences. This book addresses the need to examine the TFDI phenomenon considering resilient tourism development approaches and includes discussion on impacts of a rapidly evolving global pandemic on tourism. Recognising that its impact on tourism has only just begun, the book includes early estimates of the damage to the tourism economy and TFDI over 2020 and beyond. It considers how the COVID-19 pandemic may change society, the economy, and tourism, and how some of the key research needs to understand these changes and contribute to a more sustainable post-pandemic tourism sector. Through a collection of chapters focusing on principles, practices and a diverse range of destination case studies, the book considers TFDI from the economic, social and environmental and regulatory perspectives. Thus, the book will advance understanding of the positive and negative impacts of TFDI as well as how emerging problems and wider implications for local economies and communities can be managed more sustainably, while also discussing the transformative opportunities offered by TFDI regarding key economic, social and environmental issues. This will be essential reading for upper-level students and researchers in the field of tourism development.

When Economies Change Paths

When Economies Change Paths
Author: Leo Paul Dana
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9810249497

While firms are attempting to expand into the global environment, many of the formerly communist nations are often misunderstood. Based on field research involving in-depth interviews in China, Central Asia, Myanmar and Indochina, this book provides academics, investors and policy-makers with an introductory overview of enterprise in these transitional economies. A theoretical framework precedes surveys of individual countries. Each chapter has been carefully refereed by national experts. Diligently referenced, the book includes citations of 250 relevant publications, guiding the future researcher through an extensive bibliography. This book is detailed, yet reader-friendly. It combines rigor with vigor, providing valuable insights into the rapidly emerging economies of Asia.

Investment Guide for the Kyrgyz Republic

Investment Guide for the Kyrgyz Republic
Author:
Publisher: OECD
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This investment guide for the Kyrgyz Republic identifies opportunities which are likely to interest foreign investors; provides information on the historical, political, economic, financial and legal framework; and draws attention to policy and legal areas where additional measures would be helpful.