In 2000, the Chinese government initiated a campaign to develop Western China and reduce local and regional inequality. Privatisation has been a central component of the campaign. This article studies the relationship between privatisation and income inequality in Western China, based on survey data from 11 Western provinces collected between 2004 and 2005. This study first explores the link be...

This paper is meant to offer an outline of some theoretical and empirical considerations affecting privatisation The emphasis in on the implications of the economics of property rights for the implementation of economic policy Its main conclusion is that privatisation is for the most part an unnecessary exercise, and is really only justified in limited circumstances Most of the advantages assoc...

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...

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 ...

Although a late starter with regard to privatising State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), Ireland was recently ranked 8 among OECD countries in terms of relative privatisation activity. This paper presents the first detailed analysis of the programme since the first divestiture in 1991. It explores how the rationale for selling SOEs has evolved and argues that privatisation has been pursued on the bas...

We investigate the impact of different privatisation methods on economic growth in transition economies. A growth equation is estimated on annual data for 23 countries during the period 1990-2001. GDP growth is found to be positively related to employment, capital and human capital growth, as well as private sector and capital market development. It is found that mass privatisation has a signif...

1. INTRODUCTION Privatisation has today become a domestic term which is both officially and colloquially in frequent use. Health care is but one of several areas which has in recent times been increasingly subjected to the prominence of this concept and strategy. Both as a way of thinking and as a policy measure privatisation is uncritically accepted by South Africans as ^^accom p lish ed fact....

Debates on government privatisation policies have often focused on the alleged effects of privatisation on health and safety. A systematic review (through Quality of Reporting of Meta-analysis) of the effects of privatising industries and utilities on the health (including injuries) of employees and the public was conducted. The data sources were electronic databases (medical, social science an...

In this document, we describe more fully the methods and results summarized in our letter to The Lancet. We begin by presenting our replication of the cross-country analysis reported in Stuckler, King, and McKee (henceforth SKM). We then proceed to an alternative research design, where we explore the relationship between privatisation and mortality across Russian regions. Finally, we revisit th...

BACKGROUND During the early-1990s, adult mortality rates rose in most post-communist European countries. Substantial differences across countries and over time remain unexplained. Although previous studies have suggested that the pace of economic transition was a key driver of increased mortality rates, to our knowledge no study has empirically assessed the role of specific components of transi...