Privatization and Equity

Professor V.V. Ramanadham is Coordinator of the UNDP Interregional Network on Privatization. He has been engaged in research in the field of public enterprise, privatization and industrial economics for over forty-five years, and has numerous publications in the area. Recent books include Public Enterprise and Income Distribution, The Economics of Public Enterprise, Privatization in the UK (ed.), Privatization: A Global Perspective (ed.) and Constraints and Impacts of Privatization (ed.). He is an Associate Fellow of Templeton College, Oxford, and the Founder-Director of the Institute of Public Enterprise, India.

1 The impacts of privatization on distributional equity 2 The distributional impact of privatization in developing countries: who gets what and why 3 The impacts of privatization on distributional equity with special reference to East Germany 4 Privatization and distributional equity in Poland 5 The impacts of privatization on distributional equity in the Philippines 6 The impacts of privatization on distributional equity in Thailand 7 The impacts of privatization on distributional equity in Malaysia 8 The impact of privatization on distributional equity: the case of Sri Lanka 9 The impacts of privatization on distributional equity in Bangladesh 10 The distributional implications of privatization: the case of India’s divestment programme 11 The impacts of privatization on distributional equity in Nigeria 12 The impacts of privatization on distributional equity: the Chilean case, 1985–9 13 The impacts of privatization on distributional equity in Guyana 14 Concluding review