Privatising land in England

Privatising primary care.

The judicial review of the decision to award general practice services in Derby to an American corporation UnitedHealth Europe (UHE) goes to the heart of the corporate takeover of the NHS. Lawyers representing the Secretary of State told the judge that the contract to UHE was no different from replacing a retiring GP, a decision made hundreds of times a year. 1 But this careful choreography has...

Privatising the Forests

Does privatisation have a role in world forestry sustainable management? Is privatisation policy valid for the forestry sector? This paper is aimed to the identification of opportunities and risks of forests privatisation in developing countries. Given the above background, privatisation may be defined as the problem of delimiting the extent of what is privately and what is publicly owned by cr...

Does Privatising Public Service Provision Reduce Accountability?

This paper studies how privatising service provision (shifting control rights and contractual obligations to providers) a ects accountability. There are two main e ects. (1) Privatisation demotivates governments from investigating and responding to public demands, since providers then hold up service adaptations. (2) Privatisation demotivates the public from mobilising to pressure for service a...

Response of small New England ponds to historic land use

Privatising Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: The MDG Impact

Ph o to : R u th M as se y/ U N D P. Introduction This policy research brief draws on the findings of a UNDP-supported book, Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa (Bayliss and Fine, forthcoming), to analyse the effects of privatisation on the delivery of water and electricity. Its chief conclusion? Privatisation has been a widespread failure. This has hampered...