There is no doubt that this policy provided some individuals with the opportunity to monopolize some commodities, but their monopoly was mostly local, temporary, and not supported by government privileges. Therefore, it did not have a continuous or comprehensive effect on prices in all parts of th...
Although in the United Kingdom public service broadcasting (PSB) — led by the BBC, a non-commercial entity — has traditionally been seen as the bedrock of the television industry, the United Kingdom is home to a significant private or commercially owned television sector too. The first comme...
Other things touched me about America – the sense of caring for others. Coming from India and Africa, I had never seen the disabled treated so well – the idea that you should give up your seat for someone weaker than you sounds so common-sense yet is so little practiced in many other...
The involvement of independent power producers in the development of the Indian power sector is a result of the fiscal crisis which overwhelmed the Indian state about 1990. Until then the power sector had been almost exclusively a public sector monopoly....
Efficient performance by companies with mixed ownership: Privatization and divestiture of a vertically integrated public monopoly mixed company (institutionalized public-private partnership)corporate social responsibility (CSR)This paper examines a model of privatization and divestiture of a... SV Berg,M Oka...
in place of a governmentmonopoly, schools will become more productive and efficient in order to attract enrolments. Thus far, there is no evidence of rising efficiency for the Chilean educational system, although it appears that the private schools receiving vouchers do slightly better in raising ...
In 1995, China introduced the “Guidelines for Pilot Establishment of a Modern Enterprise System for Municipal Public Enterprises,” initiating the opening up of the sewage treatment sector’s monopoly. Despite improvements in the capital market, institutional barriers such as laws and regulations ...
In India, urban transport has been the monopoly of Government companies. Caught between providing low-fare transportation to the urban poor of Indian cities and being a model employer giving high wages with job security to employees, government companies are struggling to break even. A partnership ...
This chapter: (i) explains why private-sector Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) and their ratings opinions are unconstitutional (with emphasis on CRAs that rate corporate, municipal and government financial-instruments); (ii) explains why government bailouts
If money is just an IOU, why are we delivering the exclusive power to create it to an unelected, unaccountable, non-transparent private banking monopoly? Why are we buying into the notion that the government is broke – that it must sell off public assets and slash public services in order...