This paper overviews and analyzes Egypt's service sector, its commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the country's main service liberalization policies. The paper compares Egypt's GATS commitments to those of other developing countries. It argues that the pattern...

This study, on the impact of privatization on dismissed workers in Turkey, is the first of its kind. It is based on interviews with dismissed workers in the cement and petrochemicals sectors. Sevred workers suffered significant earning losses upon re-employment. These losses amounted to an...

This paper examined theoretically and empirically privatization episodes in a sample of Sub-Sahara African countries that were under military regimes as of 1970. The theoretical analysis employed a principal-agent model to investigate the mutually beneficial profit-sharing collaborations between...