Governance, regulation, and privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region /
[Book]
edited by Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2004.
1 online resource (xi, 470 pages) :
illustrations.
NBER-East Asia seminar on economics ;
v. 12
"This volume contains edited versions of papers presented at the NBER's East Asia Seminar on Economics twelfth annual conference, held in Hong Kong, June 28-30, 2001"--Ackn.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Over the last twenty-five years, there has been an acceleration in the move from government regulation towards privatization. Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region is the first thoroughgoing account of the relative success of the different approaches to privatization as undertaken in Korea, China, Australia, and Japan. In most contexts, privatization is expected to yield greater efficiency and cost effectiveness while avoiding the corruption and bloated budgets of government regulation or monopoly control. But broad-scale privatization, if ill designed, has also.
Governance, regulation, and privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region.