Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in Asia : Challenges and Solutions

Section 1: Corporate Governance, Strategy and the Legal framework.-Chapter 1: Strategy, Independence, and Governance of State-owned Enterprises in Asia (Henrique Schneider).-Chapter 2: Enhancing the Transparency and Accountability of State-Owned Enterprises (Chung-a Park and Hans Christiansen) -- Chapter 3: Regulatory Frameworks for Reforms of State-Owned Enterprises in Thailand and Malaysia (Pornchai Wisuttisak and Nasarudin Bin Abdul Rahman) -- Chapter 4: Reforming State-owned Enterprises in Asia: Lessons from Competition Law and Policy in India (Vijay Kumar Singh) -- Chapter 5: State-owned Enterprises in Uzbekistan: Taking Stock and Some Reform Priorities (Umidjon Abdullaev) -- Section 2: Privatization: Challenges and Solutions -- Chapter 6: The Effects of Privatization and Corporate Governance of SOEs in Transition Economy: Case of Kazakhstan (Keun Jung Lee) -- Chapter 7: The Privatization of Japan Railway and Japan Post: Why, How, and Now (Chul Ju Kim and Michael C. Huang) -- Chapter 8: Reform and Privatization of State Owned Enterprises in India (Kunmin Kim and N. Panchanatham) -- Chapter 9: Privatization of Iranian State-Owned Enterprises: Barriers and Policy Recommendations (Mohsen Fazelian, Hooman Peimani, and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary) -- Section 3: Evaluation of Performance and Country Studies.-Chapter 10. Necessity of Developing a Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for SOEs (Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino, Chul Ju Kim, Aline Mortha) -- Chapter 11: Is the Management Evaluation System of State-Owned Enterprises in the Republic of Korea a Good Tool for Better Performance? (Jhungsoo Park, Jina Kim, Chul Ju Kim) -- Chapter 12: State-owned Enterprise Reform in Viet Nam: Progress and Challenges (Le Ngoc Dang, Dinh Dung, and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary) -- Chapter 13: State-owned Enterprises and Cluster-based Industrialization: Evidence from Bangladesh (Monzur Hossain) -- Chapter 14: State-Owned Enterprises in Singapore: Performance and Policy Recommendations (Youngho Chang) -- Chapter 15: Obstacles to Doing Business in Asia: Cross-Country Analysis for State-Owned Enterprises and Private Firms(Thai-Ha Le, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, and Canh Phuc Nguyen) -- Chapter 16: State-Ownership and Nationalisation in the Energy Sector: The Case Of Kazakhstan’s Oil Industry (Serik Orazgaliyev).