"Analyzes impact of privatization programs on direct foreign investment (DFI). Uses econometric techniques to demonstrate that infrastructure privatization is h

Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in wea

This publication examines the empirical evidence on the privatisation measures introduced in the Latin American region since the 1980s, in light of recent criti

In the last decades of the 20th century, privatization has been a key policy instrument in the move to more market-based economic systems in all parts of the de