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Resisting reform?
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ISBN: 9352802373 8132112474 1282004565 9786612004568 813210109X 9788132101093 9788132112471 9789352802371 9781282004566 6612004568 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Delhi Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications

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'Resisting Reform?' looks at the attempts that have been made to 'reform' Bangalore's water supply, situating them in their global and national context and that of the city's broader development. The authors argue that treating water as a commodity is a dangerous principle for any water service, public or private.


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The governance of network industries : institutions, technology and policy in reregulated infrastructures
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ISBN: 9781847201171 1847201172 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar,


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Global privatization and its impact
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ISBN: 1604567856 161728016X 9781617280160 9781604567854 9781617280160 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York


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Towards a principal-agent based typology of risks in public-private partnerships
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ISBN: 1451917503 1462341640 1282843885 1451873247 9786612843884 1452760152 Year: 2009 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund,

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There is a strong economic rationale for close cooperation between the public and private sectors. This has resulted in a significant increase in the demand for the provision of public services through instruments combining public and private money such as public-private partnerships (PPPs or P3s). We describe these arrangements and explore how they can be analyzed using standard tools in economics (incentives and principal-agent theory). We discuss the implications of our approach in terms of identifying risks that are often overlooked before turining to the optimal risk-sharing between the public and private partners, in particular with respect to information asymmetries in risk perceptions. This allows us to propose a typology of the risks associated with PPPs, where both internal risks (the risks associated with the contract) and external risks (those associated with the project) are considered.

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Management --- Business & Economics --- Industrial Management --- Public-private sector cooperation. --- Privatization. --- Risk management. --- Denationalization --- Privatisation --- Private-public partnerships --- Private-public sector cooperation --- Public-private partnerships --- Public-private sector collaboration --- Insurance --- Contracting out --- Corporatization --- Government ownership --- Cooperation --- Infrastructure --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Organizational Behavior --- Transaction Costs --- Property Rights --- Bureaucracy --- Administrative Processes in Public Organizations --- Corruption --- Asymmetric and Private Information --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures --- Other Public Investment and Capital Stock --- Marketing and Advertising: Government Policy and Regulation --- Transportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis --- Public Enterprises --- Public-Private Enterprises --- Public Administration --- Public Sector Accounting and Audits --- Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities: General --- Public finance & taxation --- Civil service & public sector --- Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP) --- Public sector --- Risks of public-private partnership --- Transportation --- Expenditure --- Economic sectors --- Public financial management (PFM) --- National accounts --- Public-private sector cooperation --- Finance, Public --- Fiscal policy --- Saving and investment --- United States


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Where does the public sector end and the private sector begin?
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ISBN: 1451916981 1462356788 1451872690 1282843362 9786612843365 1452777314 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, Fiscal Affairs Department,

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The boundary between the public and private sectors can be defined on the basis of ownership of institutional units. Nonmarket government-owned entities and corporations that are owned or controlled by government units belong to the public sector. “Economic ownership” is more important than majority ownership. Joint ventures, public-private partnerships, and social insurance funds (including for public employees) can be unambiguously allocated to the public or private sector on the basis of international public sector accounting standards. Boundary problems within the public sector are just as acute as those between the public and private sectors, mainly because of ambiguities in distinguishing “market” from “nonmarket” activities.

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Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Privatization. --- Government business enterprises. --- Government ownership. --- Public goods. --- Industrial policy. --- Business --- Industries --- Industry and state --- Goods, Public --- Nationalization --- Public ownership --- Socialization of industry --- State ownership --- Nationalized companies --- Parastatals --- Public enterprises --- State-owned enterprises --- Denationalization --- Privatisation --- Government policy --- Economic policy --- Finance, Public --- Welfare economics --- Free rider problem (Economics) --- Collectivism --- Socialism --- Privatization --- Business enterprises --- Contracting out --- Corporatization --- Government ownership --- Accounting --- Corporate Finance --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Public Enterprises --- Public-Private Enterprises --- Public Administration --- Public Sector Accounting and Audits --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures --- Other Public Investment and Capital Stock --- Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise: General --- Financial Institutions and Services: General --- Civil service & public sector --- Financial reporting, financial statements --- Public finance & taxation --- nationalization --- Ownership & organization of enterprises --- Public sector --- Financial statements --- Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP) --- Public-private sector cooperation --- Government business enterprises --- New Zealand

The Other Invisible Hand
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ISBN: 0691129363 9780691129365 9786612157462 1282157469 1400828007 9781400828005 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to their users, and inequitable in their distribution. In this book, Julian Le Grand argues that the best solution is to offer choice to users and to encourage competition among providers. Le Grand has just completed a period as policy advisor working within the British government at the highest levels, and from this he has gained evidence to support his earlier theoretical work and has experienced the political reality of putting public policy theory into practice. He examines four ways of delivering public services: trust; targets and performance management; "voice"; and choice and competition. He argues that, although all of these have their merits, in most situations policies that rely on extending choice and competition among providers have the most potential for delivering high-quality, efficient, responsive, and equitable services. But it is important that the relevant policies be appropriately designed, and this book provides a detailed discussion of the principal features that these policies should have in the context of health care and education. It concludes with a discussion of the politics of choice.

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Education --- Health services administration --- Human services --- Medical care --- Municipal services --- Privatization --- School choice --- School management and organization --- Administration scolaire --- Écoles --- Éducation --- Privatisation --- Santé, Services de --- Service social --- Services municipaux --- Soins médicaux --- Marktwirtschaft. --- Öffentliche Dienstleistung. --- Wirtschaftsordnung. --- Concurrentie. --- Openbare dienstverlening. --- Economic aspects --- Aspect économique --- Choix --- Finances. --- Administration --- Finances --- Social service --- Finance. --- Educational administration --- Inspection of schools --- School administration --- School inspection --- School operation policies --- School organization --- Schools --- Choice of school --- Parents' choice of school --- School, Choice of --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Municipal services within corporate limits --- Public services --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Inspection --- Management and organization --- Selection --- -Municipal services --- -Human services --- -Health services administration --- -School choice --- -School management and organization --- -361.941 --- Health care management --- Health services management --- Services, Human --- -Inspection --- -GB / United Kingdom - Verenigd Koninkrijk - Royaume Uni --- Sante, Services de --- Soins medicaux --- Municipal government --- Public utilities --- Educational planning --- Management --- Aspect economique --- Public health --- Administrative agencies --- Services publics --- Administration publique --- Valuation --- Marketing --- Reorganization --- Evaluation --- Réorganisation --- Administration, Educational --- Operation policies, School --- Policies, School operation --- Organization --- 361.941 --- 321.2 --- 350.0 --- 351.2 --- 351.3 --- GB / United Kingdom - Verenigd Koninkrijk - Royaume Uni --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- Economisch beleid van de overheid --- Organisatie van het openbaar bestuur: algemeenheden --- Openbare gezondheid. Milieubescherming. Milieuvervuiling --- Openbaar bestuur: onderwijs --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Teaching --- Training --- Denationalization --- Contracting out --- Corporatization --- Government ownership

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