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Capital Intensive Characteristics
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- ISBN 9781138357143
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The book interrogates privatisation in terms of its effectiveness vis-à-vis its stated goals and more fundamentally in terms of its success in delivering economic development. It investigates why privatisation was successful in the UK and other OECD countries and why it has not met with equal success in developing countries. In this regard, it further examines the policy prescriptions of the IMF and World Bank in relation to the conceptualised benefits and theoretical assumptions underlying these supposed benefits. The author assesses the extent to which culture and customs, indeed the mode of production, stand in determinate relationship to the goals, techniques and outcome of the process. Furthermore, Chang examines the degree to which socioeconomic and moral consequences of privatisation have been ignored in pursuit of the ideological imperative implicit in the Washington Consensus. Hence, the book contributes to the reflective thought that must necessarily be part of theory validation, and provides the basis for a balanced and empirically-valid theory of privatisation.
Claude V. Chang is an Independent Consultant and Researcher. He was Secretary to the Treasury of Guyana and ex-officio member of the board of the Central Bank. Chang was also Adviser to the Public Accounts Committee, Guyana Parliament, and a former Member of the Governing Council of the University of Guyana. Chang has over 20 years international experience in the telecommunications industry in the US, Barbados, Guam and Guyana. He contributed a book chapter to DFID-funded Centre on Regulation and Competition at the University of Manchester, and contributed to the African Development Report 1999.
