Korea has experienced remarkable economic growth during the last four decades due to its trade-oriented development policy. Since the international trade of Korea is carried predominantly by sea transport, its ports play a pivotal role in national economic development. This impressive development in a short period of time has resulted in rapidly increasing seaborne cargoes. All the parties invo...

It is now well-established that privatisation brings with it re-regulation, not deregulation. However, this does not mean that we should expect that the policies once pursued under public ownership will be reintroduced by regulatory means. On the contrary, privatisation can be understood as a way of institutionalising changes in policy. This is particularly evident when privatisation is accompa...

Despite repeated commitments by successive governments in Indonesia to divestment of state-owned enterprises, little has occurred. There has been considerable experimentation with a different kind of privatisation, however, involving reforms that opened up markets previously dominated by state firms to the private sector. The spectacular failure of some of these experiments has weakened the app...

Recent years have seen countries introducing reform of their utility industries with a view to promoting private ownership and competition. This paper studies the effect of the sequencing of privatisation, competition and regulation reforms in electricity generation using data from 25 developing countries for the period 1985 to 2001. A fixed effects panel data model is used. The study finds tha...

Sweden and Spain experiment with different provider models to reform healthcare provision. Both models have in common that they extend the role of the for-profit sector in healthcare. As the analysis of Saltman and Duran demonstrates, privatisation is an ambiguous and contested strategy that is used for quite different purposes. In our comment, we emphasize that their analysis leaves questions ...

Land privatisation is at the moment regarded as the main tool for land distribution in Belarus. Obviously, the process has to function smoothly and effortlessly from the user’s point of view. The paper addresses the land privatisation process in Belarus with aim to identify its drawbacks and pitfalls. It therefore assumes that land privatisation is overcomplicated as well as time-consuming and ...

Governments world-wide have attempted to use market mechanisms and privatisation to increase the quality and/or reduce the cost of healthcare. England's Health and Social Care Act 2012 is an attempt to promote privatisation through marketisation in the National Health Service (NHS). While the health policy literature tends to assume that privatisation follows from private-sector entry points, w...

sweden and spain experiment with different provider models to reform healthcare provision. both models have in common that they extend the role of the for-profit sector in healthcare. as the analysis of saltman and duran demonstrates, privatisation is an ambiguous and contested strategy that is used for quite different purposes. in our comment, we emphasize that their analysis leaves questions ...

The objective of this paper is to present a literature review about public policy evaluation, with specific reference to privatisation. The basic research goal still in process is to evaluate the purpose and reach of public policy objectives relating to privatisation, particularly in relation to their socio-economic outcomes at regional and community levels. In order to achieve this objective, ...

As social services have a special mission, privatisation of social services should not be approved if it is unable to assure the same or an increased quality of life. Quality of life, of course, does not depend solely on a greater number of services but also and especially on the higher quality of those services. Since higher quality is often one of the motives for the privatisation of health s...