Privatization has been one of the most important elements of public policy inthe last decade and there have been massive transfers of ownership from thepublic t... » 

Privatization has been one of the most important elements of public policy inthe last decade and there have been massive transfers of ownership from thepublic to the private sector on a national and international level. This bookcombines thematic papers with country case studies to discuss the mechanismswhich have enabled this to occur and to assess privatizations mixedachievements.The authors international academics practitioners and consultants and theprocess of privatization is discussed in East Germany Nigeria PakistanGuyana Sri Lanka Trinidad and Tobago and Great Britain. «