Profitability improvements after the privatization of a large state-owned bank might come at the expense of reduced … access to financial services for some groups, especially the rural poor. The privatization of Tanzania's National Bank of …'s profitability and portfolio quality improved although credit growth was slow, in line with privatization experiences in other …

author finds that countries that established separate regulatory authorities, prior to privatization, saw increased … authority before privatization. This increased willingness to pay is consistent with the hypothesis that investors require a …

practices by multilateral organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The authors find that …

forecasting than transport ministries, or regulatory agencies typically observe. Privatization brings new needs for demand … forecasting. More attention is paid to risk under privatization, than when investments are publicly financed. And regulators must … "old hands" of the sector. This is dangerous when privatization changes the nature of business. For projects amounting to …

Some critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should … establish better retrenchment programs. Using new data from a sample of 400 companies in the world, Chong and López … policies by private owners after privatization. The results show that adverse selection plagues retrenchment programs carried …

System of classification from different ports around the world. They find that distance and containerization matter. They … find that the efficiency of ports is also important. Improving the efficiency of a port from the 25th to the 75th … to explain variations in port efficiency. They find that the variations are linked to excessive regulation, the …

agencies, but existing evidence suggests that these reforms will not improve bank stability or efficiency. While some countries …

privatization without institutions to limit asset-stripping may not lead to a demand for the rule of law ["After the Big Bang … or strip assets) and political positions of individuals are interdependent. "Big bang" privatization may give individuals …