Governance, regulation, and privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region /:

Over the last twenty-five years, there has been an acceleration in the move from government regulation towards privatization. Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region is the first thoroughgoing account of the relative success of the different approaches to privatization a...

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Corporate Author: NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics
Other Authors: Itō, Takatoshi, 1950-, Krueger, Anne O.
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Series:NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics (Series) ; v. 12.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Over the last twenty-five years, there has been an acceleration in the move from government regulation towards privatization. Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region is the first thoroughgoing account of the relative success of the different approaches to privatization as undertaken in Korea, China, Australia, and Japan. In most contexts, privatization is expected to yield greater efficiency and cost effectiveness while avoiding the corruption and bloated budgets of government regulation or monopoly control. But broad-scale privatization, if ill designed, has also.
Item Description:"This volume contains edited versions of papers presented at the NBER's East Asia Seminar on Economics twelfth annual conference, held in Hong Kong, June 28-30, 2001"--Ackn
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 470 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780226386966
0226386961
9780226386799
0226386791
1281125792
9781281125798
9786611125790
6611125795

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