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Title

Privatizing monopolies : lessons from the telecommunications and transport sectors in Latin America / edited by Ravi Ramamurti.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Ramamurti, Ravi.

Description

vi, 401 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

• Privatization, especially of monopolies and infrastructure sectors, has become increasingly important as national governments feel the pressure to reduce public spending, expand service, improve quality, and raise efficiency. Latin America has in recent years served as a laboratory for testing the limits of privatization.
• In Privatizing Monopolies, a distinguished interdisciplinary team of business school faculty, economists, political scientists, and practitioners from multinational companies examines the lessons of this process in two important sectors: telecommunications and transport (airlines and roadways).
• Chapters examine why governments privatized these sectors, what strategies they used to divest enterprises, why private investors were drawn to the deals, and - most important - what difference privatization made to the performance of the sectors. Changes in managerial behavior, induced by changes in ownership, competition, and regulation, are used to explain the observed outcome.
• By analyzing the experiences of several countries in multiple sectors, the contributors offer valuable insights for other countries as well as for the privatization of other monopolistic sectors.

Subject

• Privatization > Latin America
• Telephone companies > Latin America
• Airlines > Latin America
• Toll roads > Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The New Frontier of Privatization / Ravi Ramamurti -- 2. Pioneering Telephone Privatization: Jamaica / Alvin G. Wint -- 3. Telephone Privatization in a Large Country: Mexico / Ravi Ramamurti -- 4. Telephone Privatization in a Hurry: Argentina / Ben Petrazzini -- 5. A Planned Approach to Telephone Privatization: Venezuela / Antonio Frances -- 6. Ownership and Competition in Chile's Airline Industry / Ricardo Paredes-Molina and Ravi Ramamurti -- 7. A Privatization Nightmare: Aerolineas Argentinas / Robert Grosse -- 8. Divestiture and Deregulation: The Case of Mexico's Airlines / Pankaj Tandon -- 9. One Piece of a Larger Puzzle: The Privatization of VIASA / Janet Kelly -- 10. The Mexican Toll Roads Program / William M. Emmons III -- 11. Regulating Private Toll Roads / Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez -- 12. Multinational Enterprises and Telecommunications Privatization / Mabelle G. Sonnenschein and Patricia A. Yokopenic --
• 13. Infrastructure Concession Design and Financing Issues / Jose Luis Guasch.

ISBN

0801851351 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95018040

OCLC

• 32430470
• ocm32430470

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries