After an introductory chapter on growth, development, institutions, and transition, this thesis presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related …
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Five South Asian countries- India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka - embarked on electricity market reforms in the 1990's. The dissertation uses the framework of New Institutional Economics to assess the effects on electricity sector performance of both observables ele…
After the attainment of independence in 1960, Nigeria established state-owned enterprises in order to facilitate infrastructural development and assume control of the commanding heights of its economy. However, the performance of state-owned enterprises was dismal. One of the po…
This thesis asks two central questions: How are the states of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia pursuing economic development and why have they chosen countertrade polices to achieve this. By analysing the application of Offset ventures and Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) schemes, the t…
This study investigates the Indonesian experience in managing the privatization of State Controlled Enterprises (SCEs) during the period from 1983 to 1993. The main objective of this study is to assess and explore the following research question: Why has there been little owners…
In this study, the author examines the impact of public policy changes in ownership and control of State-Owned-Enterprises (SOEs) during the first privatization phase on employment relations at the firm level in Tunisia. I have used the technique of Paired t-test statistics for …
In this dissertation I address the question of what accounts for the success or failure of privatization efforts in middle-income developing countries. I have looked for an answer in the context of the interaction between the central government as the major agent of the reform a…
The economy of Arab Republic of Egypt (hereafter, Egypt) had been centrally-planned for more than three decades. After Years of deteriorating economic performance, the Government of Egypt (GOE) recently elected to sell state-owned enterprises. The rationale offered was market fo…
This study focuses on the economic and political transformation of the Egyptian state after it applied neoliberal structural adjustment policies in May 1991, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank had required in return for foreign debt restructuring. It dem…
The purpose of this study is threefold: first, identifying the factors that explain patient perceptions of Saudi public hospital quality; second, examining the relationship between contracting out the management and operation of Saudi public hospitals and the level of perceived …
The push toward privatization in developing countries is primarily motivated by greater economic efficiency. This is consistent with mainstream economic classical thought which views the market as the efficient allocator of scarce resources. However, mainstream economics tends t…
This study aims to examine the attitudes of the Saudi undergraduate college students toward the anticipated effects of privatization on the employment system of the Saudi privatized SOEs. Using survey questionnaire data collected in May 2002 from 672 Saudi undergraduate college …
Klapper and Love (2002 and 2004) and La Porta et al. (1998) find that firms in countries with weak legal systems such as Indonesia have on average lower level of governance and shareholder rights protection. Firms in such countries may establish strong governance policies/practi…
Telecommunications is an infrastructure which facilitates economic growth and development. Its importance had often been overlooked in the developing countries until the late 1980s. The funds for a telephone network were not prioritized as compared to other types of infrastructu…
This is a study of two prominent features of the privatization policy in Malaysia: politics and efficiency. This dissertation puts forward the claim that political interference is detrimental in any privatization policy. Cronyism and nepotism have perverted free-market mechanism…
This research is focused on the corporatization and privatization of the National Electricity Board (Malaysia). It investigates how earlier form of regulation (under direct government ownership and control) has affected the conduct and performance of the NEB and what the implica…
In the decades prior to the 1980s, governments around the world increased the scope and magnitude of their activities, taking on a variety of tasks that the private sector previously performed. In the late 1970s, led by Great Britain, privatization became common: The objective o…
The problems, policies, and prospects of urban transport have assumed added urgency due to the pressing need in Senegal and The Gambia to improve both its supply and standard. The inadequacies and inefficiencies of urban transportation services are major barriers to socioeconomi…