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Finance & Development
March 1, 2003
Adam Bennett |
Failed Legacies Escaping the ghosts of central economic planning   |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
Michael B. Gerrard |
Public-Private Partnerships What are public-private partnerships, and how do they differ from privatizations? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002
Pradeep K. Mitra & Marcelo Selowsky |
Lessons from a Decade of Transition in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union A decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, some transition economies are performing far better than others. Reducing barriers to entry is not enough -- hard budget constraints must also be imposed on the old money-losing state-owned enterprises. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Raj Desai & Itzhak Goldberg |
Stakeholders, Governance, and the Russian Enterprise Dilemma Over the past decade, Russia's efforts to achieve economic growth and restructure its economy have been seriously hampered by a dearth of investment and the proliferation of barter and arrears. Given current conditions, how might Russian economic reform efforts best be supported? |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Janos Kornai |
Making the Transition to Private Ownership When the former centrally planned economies began the transition to a market economy one decade ago, there was strong disagreement on the best way to carry out ownership reform. 10 years into transition, experience has proved that organic development was the best strategy. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Roger Bootle |
Redrawing the Boundaries We do need to fix the financial markets, and that means, in a variety of ways, a bigger role for government. But we do not need bigger government. Or, except in relation to the powers of corporate executives, do we need to fix the market economy in general. |
Reason
April 2006
Robert H. Nelson |
Welcome to the New---and Private--Neighborhood Postmodern local government in the U.S. would fall under a brand-new legal category: the exercise of a collective private property right in the manner of a private club. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2006
Zagha, Nankani & Gill |
Rethinking Growth Economists are reconsidering what they really know about economic growth and how to go about formulating global national policies in the absence of reliable models. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Emine Gurgen |
Central Asia: Achievements and Prospects Although the five Central Asian countries in transition have made progress in moving to a market economy, they still have far to go and need to intensify their reform efforts. |
Entrepreneur
November 2003
Joshua Kurlantzick |
Private Partners Can the privatization trend help your company grow? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Harry G. Broadman |
Competition and Business Entry in Russia Reforming anticompetitive business structures and lowering barriers to entry are key to Russia's post-privatization reform program... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Neil Gregory & Stoyan Tenev |
The Financing of Private Enterprise in China A 1999 survey of more than 600 private Chinese enterprises revealed that they relied primarily on self-financing. For China's private sector to thrive, firms will need increased access to external loan and equity financing... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000 |
Book reviews Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia by Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman evaluates the reforms of the 1990s... Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir by Henry Kaufman both inspirational and educational... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Olivier Blanchard |
Cracks in the System The Economic Counsellor and Chief Economist of the IMF discusses what he thinks is needed to repair the damaged global economy. |
BusinessWeek
October 18, 2004
Matlack & Kahane |
Europe's Private Affair Get ready for the next chapter in European privatization: public services. From hospitals and schools to airports and toll roads, governments are turning to the private sector for public-works projects traditionally handled by the state. |
Reason
March 2002
Brink Lindsey |
Social Insecurity Why an increasing number of countries are turning to market-based pension plans... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Stanley Fischer & Ratna Sahay |
Taking Stock Economic performance has differed widely among the transition economies. The best performers are countries that were the most committed to reform at the start and that have carried out reforms rapidly and consistently. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Oleh Havrylyshyn & John Odling-Smee |
Political Economy of Stalled Reforms Powerful vested interests in some of the transition countries oppose further reform. But, even in this difficult climate, reform can and should continue. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Guy Pfeffermann |
Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: The Role of Private Enterprise The role of private enterprise in development has been neglected by scholars, governments, and aid organizations. This is regrettable: a vibrant private sector generates jobs, raises incomes, and makes better, cheaper goods and services available... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2008
Ryan Chittum |
Running Down The REIT Highway An Internal Revenue Service private-letter ruling a year ago opened an intriguing avenue for a potentially massive expansion of the REIT world: hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure assets that either already exist or are needed relatively soon. |
National Real Estate Investor
July 1, 2006
Parke M. Chapman |
Road To Riches? With the prices of conventional real estate hovering near cyclical highs, there is a growing interest by investors in toll roads and bridges, which possess many of the same characteristics of commercial properties, including predictable cash flow. |
BusinessWeek
May 7, 2007
Emily Thornton |
Roads To Riches Why investors are clamoring to take over America's highways, bridges, and airports - and why the public should be nervous. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003 |
Book reviews The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third-World Development Policies, by Eberhard Reusse... Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium... Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East... etc. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2009
Lynn & Holbrook |
Restructuring Infrastructure The growing infrastructure sector may be a road of opportunity for commercial real estate. |
Entrepreneur
December 2007
Lee Gimpel |
Investors, Next Right The move toward privatized public infrastructure could mean a new investment avenue. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 24, 2011
Sean Silverthorne |
What's Government's Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing? The private market should be the main supplier of mortgage credit, but it should be carefully monitored using new approaches to regulating mortgage securitization. The government should play a role of "guarantor of last resort" in periods of crisis. |
