eBook

The private sector in development : entrepreneurship, regulation, and competitive disciplines

Hadjimichael, Bita, Klein, Michael U.

2003

Overview

Over the years, the term private sector development has been misunderstood and misconstrued-variously vilified and sanctified. During the decade of the 1990s, the role of the private sector in economic development received increasing attention, with controversy surrounding such issues as privatization and corporate scandals. The Private Sector in Development: Entrepreneurship, Regulation, and Competitive Disciplines provides the first comprehensive treatment of the topic.Central to the discussion is the design of public policy that promotes an appropriate balance between competition and regulation. This book places special emphasis on the means by which private initiative is channeled into socially useful directions, particularly job creation and basic service delivery for good people. Finally, there is discussion of the implications of private sector involvement for policies of development institutions. Written principally for policy makers and their advisers, The Private Sector in Development thoroughly explores the challenges inherent in creating public policy that encourages and enhances the development role of the private sector.If global poverty is to be reduced, the private sector, by almost unanimous assent these days, is crucial. The authors offer a broad-ranging and balanced assessment of how to build workable market mechanisms in developing countries.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank
• Subject: AIR POLLUTION / BASIC SERVICES / BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / CAPITAL MARKETS / Capitalism / Capitalism -- Developing countries / CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMIES / CFCS / CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS / CITIZENS / CIVIL CONFLICT / CIVIL SOCIETY / Competition / Competition -- Developing countries / COMPETITIVE MARKETS / COMPETITIVENESS / CORPORATE GOVERNANCE / CORPORATE SCANDALS / CORRUPTION / CRIME / DEBT / DEREGULATION / DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME / DEVELOPMENT THEORY / DIRECT INVESTMENT / ECONOMIC CONDITIONS / ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / ECONOMIC FACTORS / ECONOMIC GROWTH / ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE / EMPLOYMENT / ENTREPRENEURSHIP / Entrepreneurship -- Developing countries / EXPENDITURES / FINANCIAL CRISES / FINANCIAL MARKETS / FINANCIAL SECTOR / FINANCIAL SERVICES / FINANCIAL SUPPORT / FISH / FISHING / GDP / GOOD GOVERNANCE / GOVERNANCE REFORM / GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT / GROWTH RATE / GROWTH RATES / HARD BUDGET CONSTRAINTS / HEADCOUNT MEASURE / HEALTH CARE / HEALTH EXPENDITURES / HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS / HUMAN CAPITAL / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT / INCOME / INCOME DISTRIBUTION / INCOME GROUPS / INCOME GROWTH / INCOME INEQUALITY / Industrial policy / Industrial policy -- Developing countries / INDUSTRIALIZATION / INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES / INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK / INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT / INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE / INVESTMENT CLIMATE / JOB CREATION / LIBERTIES / LIVING STANDARDS / LONG- TERM TRENDS / LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES / MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY / MACROECONOMIC STABILITY / MARKET COMPETITION / MARKET ECONOMIES / MARKET ECONOMY / NATURAL RESOURCES / OPEN MARKETS / PER CAPITA INCOME / PERFORMANCE INDICATORS / POOR BENEFIT / POOR PEOPLE / POOR PERSON / POPULATION GROUPS / POVERTY ELIMINATION / POVERTY LINE / POVERTY REDUCTION / PRIVATE SCHOOLS / PRIVATE SECTOR / PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT / PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION / PRIVATIZATION / PRO-POOR POLICY / PRODUCTIVITY / PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH / PROFIT MOTIVE / PROPERTY RIGHTS / PUBLIC AGENCIES / PUBLIC POLICY / PUBLIC SECTOR / PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AGRICULTURE / REDUCING POVERTY / Regulation / REGULATORY FRAMEWORK / REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS / RESOURCE ALLOCATION / RURAL AREAS / SAFETY NETS / SAVINGS / SERVICE DELIVERY / SOCIAL CAPABILITY / SOCIAL CAPITAL / SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT / SOCIAL DIALOGUES / SOCIAL INDICATORS / SOCIAL SECTORS / SOCIAL SERVICES / STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES / TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY / Trade policy / TRADE REFORMS / Trade regulation / Trade regulation -- Developing countries / TRANSITION ECONOMIES / URBAN AIR POLLUTION / URBAN AREAS / VESTED INTERESTS / WAGES / WATER SUPPLY / WELFARE EFFECTS / WELFARE GAINS
• ISBN: 9780821354377, 082135437X