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Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region (National Bureau of Economic Research East Asia Seminar on Economics Book 12) by Takatoshi Itō; Anne O Krueger; NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 yielded its share of difficulties in East Asia. Privatization sometimes has created a vacuum in corporate governance for some of the region's most important industries and in some cases merely reinstated the monopoly-like configurations. The papers presented in this book discuss the experiences of privatization in several industries, including railroad and telecom, corporate governance problems, accounting issues, and challenges for the future in East Asian countries. The first section is theoretical in nature and proposes boundaries among government protection, market freedom, and shareholder
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- Author
- Takatoshi Itō; Anne O Krueger; NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226386799
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Economics, Management
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