Going Private

Going Private
Author: Jose Gomez-Ibanez
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0815715706

In the last decade many countries turned to private sources to provide services formerly offered by public agencies. Europeans, particularly the British and the French, were leaders in this movement. Developing countries also experimented extensively with privatization in the 1980s, with varying degrees of success. Because governments around the world are heavily involved in transportation, it is a natural focus of privatization experiments and in many ways has been at the cutting edge. Going Private examines the diverse privatization experiences of transportation services and facilities. Cases are drawn from the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Since almost every country has experimented to some degree with highway and bus privatization, the authors focus particularly on these services, although they also discuss urban rail transit and airports. Highways and buses, they explain, encompass all three of the most common and basic forms of privatization: the sale of an existing state-owned enterprise; use of private, rather than public, financing and management for new infrastructure development; and contracting out to private vendors public services previously provided by government employees. After thoroughly examining these services and discussing the motives for, and objections to, privatization, the authors look at the prospects for privatization in other sectors and industries. They assess those circumstances in which privatization is most likely to succeed and those in which it is most likely to fail, for political as well as economic reasons. The authors conclude that privatization involves many political and social as well as economic dimensions. Privatization is usually not simply a matter of efficiency improvements or capital augmentation but also involves such deeply imbedded societal concerns as equity, income transfers, environmental problems, and attitudes toward taxation and the role of government.

North American Transportation in Figures

North American Transportation in Figures
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2000
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

North American transportation in figures provides a comprehensive set of comparable statistical indicators of the use, performance and impact of transportation in North America. It includes over 90 different data tables, supported by figures, maps and extensive technical documentation describing data categories and definitions relating to each country, that is, Canada, Mexico and the United States. The report covers a wide variety of transportation and the economy; safety; merchandise trade; freight activity; passenger travel; infrastructure; and transportation energy and environment. It includes data fro 1990, 1995 and 1996 with value data reported only in dollars and all measurement units in metric.

Author:
Publisher: Editions Bréal
Total Pages: 243
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 2749525438

New Serial Titles

New Serial Titles
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1748
Release: 1992
Genre: Periodicals
ISBN:

A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Institutions, Contracts, and Organizations

Institutions, Contracts, and Organizations
Author: Claude Ménard
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A presentation of contributions from some of the world's leading economists, including Ronald Coase and Douglass North. It demonstrates the extent and depth of the New Institutional Economics research programme with special emphasis on the interaction between institutional factors.