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The privatisation and nationalisation of European roads : success and failure in public-private partnerships
This distinctive and timely book examines the current state and trends in the ownership, management and financing of European high capacity roads. Offering an analysis of three pioneer countries in road privatization, Spain, France and Italy, from their origins to their recent developments, it evaluates how the design of privatisation policies may lead to their success or failure. Describing the trend in favouring public-private collaboration and road charging, Professor Daniel Albalate presents the theoretical framework of road privatisation and its relevant design issues. Exhaustively studying the national experiences in historical perspective, he aims at providing lessons on the good, the bad and the ugly of road privatisation. As a result, this excellent study shows the increasing role of private financing and ownership in Europe, a trend mainly explained by fiscal motivations and the thrust of the European Commission. Presenting an evaluation of the critical elements of the contractual and regulatory design of the public-private collaboration that determines the likelihood of success and failure, this unique book will be of special interest to academics, graduate students and policy makers interested in the public provision and financing of road infrastructure, and public finance more generally. --Publisher description.
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Proposals for Privatization in Eastern Europe
This paper discusses several proposals for a wholesale privatization of public enterprises in Eastern Europe. These proposals include the distribution of \"vouchers\" to private citizens as well as the use of mutual funds, privatization companies and other forms of financial intermediaries. The paper analyzes the implications for economic efficiency of the different forms of ownership and control that would emerge from the proposals as well as their main macroeconomic consequences.
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Privatization, Social Impact, and Social Safety Nets
Privatization promotes economic efficiency and growth, thereby reinforcing macroeconomic adjustment. In the short run, however, it can lead to job losses and wage cuts for workers and higher prices for consumers. This paper discusses these impacts and the fiscal implications of privatization. It then reviews various methods of privatization and finds that public sales and auctions can have more negative effects on workers but maximize the government's revenue gains. Policymakers' options for mitigating the social impact of privatization are surveyed, and experiences under adjustment programs reviewed.
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Low-fee private schooling and poverty in developing countries
In Low-fee Private Schooling and Poverty in Developing Countries , Joanna Härmä draws on primary research carried out in sub-Saharan African countries and in India to show how the poor are being failed by both government and private schools.
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Scholars in the marketplace
Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms at Uganda's Makerere University. With the World Bank heralding neoliberal reform at Makerere as the model for the transformation of higher education in Africa, it has implications for the whole continent. At the global level, the Makerere case exemplifies the fate of public universities in a market-oriented and capital friendly era. The Makerere reform began in the 1990s and was based on the premise that higher education is more of a private than a public good. Instead of pitting the public against the private, and the state against the market, this book shifts the terms of the debate toward a third alternative than explores different relations between the two. The book distinguishes between privatisation and commercialisation, two processes that drove the Makerere reform. It argues that whereas privatisation (the entry of privately sponsored students) is compatible with a public university where priorities are publicly set, commercialisation (financial and administrative autonomy for each faculty to design a market-responsive curriculum) inevitably leads to a market determination of priorities in a public university. The book warns against commercialisation of public universities as the subversion of public institutions for private purposes.
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Expelling Public Schools
Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system In Expelling Public Schools, John Arena explores the more than two-decade struggle to privatize public schools in Newark, New Jersey—a conflict that is raging in cities across the country—from the vantage point of elites advancing the pro-privatization agenda and their grassroots challengers. Analyzing the unsuccessful effort of Cory Booker—Newark’s leading pro-privatization activist and mayor—to generate popular support for the agenda, and Booker’s rival and ultimate successor Ras Baraka’s eventual galvanization of the charter movement, Arena argues that Baraka’s black radical politics cloaked a revanchist agenda of privatization. Expelling Public Schools reveals the political rise of Booker and Baraka, their one-time rivalry and subsequent alliance, and what this particular case study illuminates about contemporary post–civil rights Black politics. Ultimately, Expelling Public Schools is a critique of Black urban regime politics and the way in which antiracist messaging obscures real class divisions, interests, and ideological diversity.
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School choice and the betrayal of democracy
Introduction : competing discourses and contrasting visions of education -- Democracy as a way of life : John Dewey's vision for individuals and their relationships -- Markets as a way of life : the Friedman's vision for individuals and their relationships -- Competition and innovation in the education industry : Betsy DeVos's campaign for school choice -- Growing markets, diminishing democracy : the statewide expansion of vouchers in Wisconsin -- Connecting schools and communities : local advocacy for public education -- Conclusion : means, ends, and public education. - Examines political calls for market-based education reform and explores the efforts of public-school advocates to build democratically spirited connections between schools and communities.
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Privatisation of State and Municipal Enterprises: Legal Regulation
\"The relevance of the subject under study is exceedingly high since this process is one of the main vectors of system-changing transformations in Ukrainian society. Thus, this vector includes the reform of property relations, which occurs through the privatisation of property of state and municipal enterprises. It is privatisation that should contribute to increasing the efficiency of property management, the emergence of a clear motivation for work, accelerating structural adjustment, and development of the country’s economy, improving the investment climate in the state, as well as improving the state property management system. The purpose of this study is to investigate the basic principles of privatisation of state and municipal enterprises, to identify the advantages and disadvantages in the legal regulation of this phenomenon. That is why several scientific and methodological means were used in this study, specifically the systematic and functional approaches, including such general logical methods as analysis and synthesis, the comparative method, deduction, the formal legal method, and the method of scientific literature analysis. The main results obtained in this paper constitute the theoretical and practical foundations of the issue under study. The article covered the general principles and features of state and municipal enterprises and analysed the efficiency of the legal regulation\"
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