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 to take issue with this negative characterization of pensions privatization. Design/methodology/approach – The argument is i...

This research investigates the comparative analysis of the performance, Efficiency of Allied & Muslim Commercial Bank before and after Privatization period. The primary resource of data for empirical analysis is the balance sheets of target years collected from the different branches of Allied bank and Muslim Commercial Bank in Khairpur and Sukkur. The balance sheets along with the income state...

Both the theory and practice of public interest lawyering are in transition. Whereas the public interest lawyer of the 1960s and 1970s typically advocated before administrative agencies and courts on behalf of poor people and underrepresented groups, the public interest lawyer of today assumes a much greater variety of roles and is involved in a broader array of tasks. One of the causes of this...

The management of transport infrastructures has undergone major reforms in recent decades, including privatization, de-bureaucratization, and regulation. One important but often neglected issue in the management of large transport facilities is the joint governance of ports and airports, a phenomenon that is relatively frequent in the US but not in either Europe or Asia. To examine the factors ...

Objective:Privatization is considered as one of the most important components of new public management with its pros and cons. However, privatization has been accepted and implemented as a policy in the whole political and economic system of Iran, but the barriers and dysfunctions of privatization policy implementation has reduced its effectiveness and efficiency in solving the problems of the ...

This study examined the accuracy between extension professionals and farmers regarding their perceptions of privatization and commercialization of agricultural extension services. The study was carried out in Delta State, Nigeria and it had a sample size of 224 respondents comprising of 134 extension professionals of the Delta State Agricultural Programme (DTADP) and 90 farmers that were random...

This paper offers a theory of how the degree of corruption that prevails in a society responds to changes in the ownership structure of major public service providers. We show that there are cases where private ownership, even though it fosters investments in infrastructure, also opens the door to more corruption. The public dissatisfaction towards privatization is crucially affected by this de...