...Urša Golob; Klement Podnar; Marko Lah Purpose This paper aims to point out a way to overcome the circumstances that arose out of the global neoliberal system. It is argued that this is possible when all relevant actors in society cooperate and that a change in a way of thinking in the private...

... employment has become ineffective due to the privatisation of the public sectors, retrenchment by private business, etc. The state of affairs is exacerbating the crime rate (both within nations and globally), ethnic and global tension, poverty and ill‐feeling. Hence, there could be other better global...

...Mark Hyde; John Dixon Purpose According to one influential set of arguments, the privatization of public pensions has been informed by neoliberalism, and has thus been an integral element of a broader program of welfare retrenchment, which is inconsistent with social cohesion. The paper aims...

... of Indonesia with ethics and values as important focus required for the private sector role. Design/methodology/approach This is a methodological paper with good empirical content prescribing policy recommendations for the role of ethics and values in the private sector in Indonesian socioeconomic...

...John Dixon; Mark Hyde Although neo‐classical economics has undoubtedly driven the global pension privatization reform agenda, it does not provide an adequate framework for the reform of retirement income protection. Indeed, it poses salient decision risks for policy‐makers because of its naturalist...

...Dell Champlin Discusses the privatization of public goods and services in urban areas. Examines the common assumption that shifting responsibility for providing goods and services to private individuals will increase the sense of community or “social capital” that binds residents of an urban area...

... it can be seen that: There are some activities undertaken by business enterprises (both in the public and private sector) which have significant social impacts. Community service obligations (CSOs) are the non‐commercial programs and activities of Government Business Enterprises (GBEs)[ 1 ] provided...

...G.S. Maddala; Yasushi Toda; Nadezhda Nozdrina Examines the importance of the role of economic incentives in privatization using data collected at the micro level from auctions of state‐owned apartments in Moscow. Describes the nature of the auctions, the data collected and the estimated hedonic...

...Yoshihiro Toyama Reports the lead up to the privatization of the three public corporations in Japan and the performance of the resultant privatized enterprises. Examines the problems associated with privatization such as denationalization and deregulation and suggests ways that future...

..., these changes should occur early in the sequencing process, prior to liberalization, marketization, stabilization or economic restructuring and substantial privatization. Theoretical analysis is employed with supporting empirical illustrations. On the expenditure side, in the former system, the government’s...

...Kjell Jansson Notes that privatization and deregulation are concepts used frequently over the last decade, also in the transport context. Discusses the meaning and relevance of these concepts in the passenger transport sector. Deals with consequences for social welfare of various organizational...

...Sonny Nwankwo Argues that conceptually, privatization entails changing organizational status from public to private and from a monopoly to a competitive situation. In practice, the outcome may be different. Many privatized utilities conform to neither the traditional notion of the public nor...

...Ron Ayres Comments that distributional equity has been given only notional support in Brazil and, in practice, the issue has had little influence on the privatization implementation process. Suggests that privatization needs to be accompanied by effective deregulation with new forms of regulation...

... (i.e. capital and labour) and also as a function of the size of the PE sector. An estimable version of this model may be expressed by the equation: Equation (1) The variables DGDP[ 3 ], DCAP[ 4 ], and DLAB[ 5 ]in equation (1) represent the rates of growth of gross domestic product, private...

...Ernest Raiklin Discusses the privatization of state enterprises in the Russian Federation since 1992. The enterprises scheduled to be sold to the public were to be small by volume of activities and included those producing and distributing consumer goods and services. This was called“small...

... conditions for laissez‐faire capitalism in the nineteenth century represent the point of origin for the analysis, i.e. the maintenance of rules to permit the self‐regulating market. The focus is on the ongoing process of privatization, citing the primary institutional shortcomings. Also examines...

...Barry S. Clark Recent proposals for swift privatization of all social property in Eastern Europe overlook the unique history and culture of that region. The neoclassical model of development treats private property and free markets as virtual guarantees of prosperity, stability, and political...

...Colleen W. Cameron Reports intensive country studies conducted for a sample of ten countries – five historically socially planned and five predominantly market economies – for comparative analyses of socioeconomic‐political characteristics prior to privatization. Purpose was to discern...