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| Title | Reforming State-Owned Enterprises: Lessons of International Experience, Especially for the Least Developed Countries |
| Abstract | UNIDO has addressed SOE reform issues since its inception, through both technical cooperation and global forum activities. The purpose of this present report is to give officials in developing countries, especially in LDCs, basic information on, and a context for deciding among, the options that are likely to be available to them in dealing with their SOEs. A particular focus of the report is on bringing to the attention of these officials current thinking and “best practices” in the field of enterprise reform. Many countries have had sizeable SOE sectors and virtually all have been forced to implement SOE reform programmes of various types, generally with relatively little success, although there have been notable exceptions. In recent years, however, there has been a host of new experiences, especially with privatization, and studies that have advanced our understanding of what works and why. This experience has almost always been in countries that face far less difficult circumstances than those in LDCs. Nonetheless, much of this experience is relevant to LDCs, even if its application needs to be done with considerable thought to the particular constraints and features of each LDC. |
| Date | 2003 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Pages | 84 pages |
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