The theory and early experience of privatization in developing countries are reviewed.
Privatization has been spurred by widespread dissatisfaction with the performance of public …

The demand for public services and physical infrastructure in developing countries is
growing steadily as populations increase, and as expectations of achieving better standards …

Following the oil price shocks in the 1970s, the transfer of wealth to the oil exporting
countries provided opportunities for accelerated economic growth. This book concentrates …

In a new branch of a discipline, it is possible to point to its academic pioneers and their
individual contributions. This is the case with administrative reform which was in the 1960s …

This book traces the evolution of concessional financing to Third World countries from its
postwar origins in the Marshall Plan to the debt crisis that engulfed virtually the entire Third …

Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment reviews the macroeconomic experiences of eighteen
developing countries from 1974 to 1989. The authors address why the experiences and …

Mounting empirical evidence of privatization's benefits coincides with increasing
dissatisfaction and opposition among citizens and policymakers. This dissatisfaction reflects …

Discussion Papers are not formal publications of the World Bank. They present preliminary
and unpolished results of country analysis or research that is circulated to encourage …

This article tests alternative hypotheses about why developing countries are pursuing
privatization, a policy that gained considerable popularity in the 1980s. Univariate and …

Turkey and Malaysia, two countries on the Islamic periphery, are often not included in
discussions of Islamic reassertion and identity. Yet both have been at the forefront of …