Journal of International Affairs articles from January 1997

Journal of International Affairs archives from January 1997

Privatization and political theory. (Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Introduction If any economic policy could lay claim to popularity, at least among the world's political elites, it would certainly be privatization. The policy first gained significant public notice during the early 1980s when...

Methods of privatization.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Privatization has been in fashion for more than 15 years, if we date its recent flowering from Margaret Thatcher's initiatives in the late 1970s. Shrinking the state's economic presence became part of the economic reform programs that...

Ideological motivations of privatization in Great Britain versus developing countries.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Privatization is one of the most significant worldwide economic, social and political phenomena of this and the previous decade. It has become the new economic mantra and will continue to exert influence on the lives of people in countries...

Privatization, the state and international institutions.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Introduction Recent changes in the global economy have not come about in the manner envisaged a generation ago. Production and distribution are being organized in accordance with decentralized, private-sector patterns coordinated by...

Privatization and corruption in transition economies.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... "If you think privatization is corrupt, try without it." --Anonymous official, in response to the Ukrainian parliament's decision to halt the privatization program on the grounds of possible corrupt methods (1994) Introduction and...

Lessons from Argentina's privatization experience.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Introduction Privatization is conceived as a drastic change in the role of government. Advocates of privatization maintain that the state administration should desist from production and pricing decisions, and instead focus on the...

The Czechoslovak experience with privatization.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... In 1991, privatization was launched in Czechoslovakia in a relatively stable macro-economic environment.(1) Unlike a number of other post-communist countries, Czechoslovakia did not have to face a disrupted domestic currency or increasing...

Czech privatization: the case of Filmove Studio Barrandov.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Introduction In 1991, when the former Czechoslovakia was carpetbagger heaven, I went to Prague as a privatization advisor under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for International Development.(1) My primary activity during an 18-month...

Tales from two privatizations: Russia and the former East Germany.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Introduction: Microeconomic Analysis The transition from a centrally planned to a market economy currently taking place in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is complex and difficult to understand, both for individuals actively...

Legal aspects of the French privatization program: review of the Pechiney privatization as a practical case.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Description of the Privatization Program Under a law dated 19 July 1993, providing for the second privatization program, the French government generated a list of 22 public sector companies to be privatized, including Banque Nationale...

Privatization: a case study in corruption.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... The current era of privatization, conceived and begun by Britain's Thatcher government, was borne of a political movement opposed to statism. For over a decade, privatization has been a critical ingredient of the free market agenda that...

Gender bias and family distress: the privatization experience in Argentina.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Introduction The intention of this article is to examine structural adjustment and the particular impact of privatization on the lives of women and families. Although privatization is occurring on a global scale, this study draws...

Poland's privatization process: a view from the inside. (Janusz Lewandowski, former Privatization Minister)(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)(Interview)
January 1, 1997... Interviewed on 14 July 1996 by Mark J. Bonamo for the Journal International Affairs Journal: Why did Poland, when shifting from a command to a market economy, go through the method known as "shock therapy?" Why did it choose a sudden...

Retreating from the commanding heights: privatization in an Indian context. (Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay)(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... The question today being asked [regarding the public sector] is commanding heights of what? Red-tapism. Inefficiency. Absurdity. Antiquity....There is no alternative to a thorough-going privatization. --S. Pandey...

Contracting out as a vehicle for privatization: half speed ahead.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Privatization in its broadest sense entails a simultaneous retrenchment of the government sector and an expansion of the private sector. Although privatization is often thought of as synonymous with government sales of state-owned enterprises...

Alleviating motion sickness: transportation privatization trends in developing countries.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... Privatization has a far greater impact on the lives and economies of developing country citizens than those in the G7.(1) It is a major restructuring tool for these emerging markets, and privatization of the transportation sector--including...

Privatization and the consolidation of democratic regimes: an analysis and an alternative.(Privatization: Political and Economic Challenges)
January 1, 1997... What is the relationship between privatization and democratization in the post-communist countries? Will privatization hinder or promote the consolidation of these infant democracies? In order to answer these questions, I will first develop a...

From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam.
January 1, 1997... Adam Fforde and Stefan de Vylder (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press Inc., 1996.), 358 pp. Its authors describe this book as a "socio-economic history of [the] transition from plan to market and [an attempt] to throw light on how this...

Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal.
January 1, 1997... Beeno Ndulu, Nicolas van de Walle, and contributors (Washington, DC: Overseas Development Council Policy Perspectives No. 21, 1996) 246 pp. Despite its optimistic title, Benno Ndulu and Nicolas van de Walle's work springs from a depressing...

Genocide, War and Human Survival.
January 1, 1997... Charles B. Strozier and Michael Flynn, eds. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1996) 343 pp. It is never easy reviewing a book that is made up of distinct essays, more so when the theme of the book is humanity's lack...

Internationalization and Domestic Politics.
January 1, 1997... Robert O. Keohane and Helen V. Milner, (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 308 pp. The preface alone signals the problems that considerably diminish the impact of this volume. The editors state that the periodical that...

Neoliberalism, Transnationalization and Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Michoacan, Mexico.
January 1, 1997... John Gledhill (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995) 243 pp. Reviewed by James Whooley In Neoliberalism, Transnationalization, and Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Michoacan, Mexico, author John Gledhill examines the impact of the global...

The Political Economy of Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries: Privatization and Liberalization in Comparative Perspective.
January 1, 1997... Ben A. Petrazzini (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1995) 248 pp. Open any newspaper with an international perspective and you are bound to read a story about the privatization of a public telecommunications organization or the liberalization...