THE IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION ON NIGERIA’S POWER SECTOR [A CASE STUDY ON POWER HOLDING COMPANY OF NIGERIA (PHCN)] 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Privatization is the implementation of a decision to sell companies owned by the State to private individuals/ companies. Benefits of privatization are making the public sector commercial enterprise survive in competitive markets through better efficiency‚ higher productivity‚ improved product quality and customer service‚ and reduction
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Land Ownership and Rural Land Expropriation in the People’s Republic of China PRC’s Land Ownership system is inspired in the communist public-owned-property principle. It is therefore different from the land system we know in the west. This land system obviously affects the way administrative expropriation of land takes place in the country. The administration and expropriation of rural land has created numerous violent conflicts in Chinese rural areas in the last years. Chinese peasants who
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What are the main objectives and methods of privatisation? This essay will look at the main objectives and methods of privatisation‚ it will begin with the brief history of privatisation and how it came about‚ it will then move onto what privatisation really is by defining it‚ having done so it will look at the general objectives of privatisation and after this it will move onto the general methods of privatisation‚ having gone through this it will move onto a case of privatisation in the UK from
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Blekinge Institute of Technology School of Management Can the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises improve when privatized? A Case study of Ghanaian based firms Master’s Thesis in Business Administration‚ MBA programme Author Charles Arthur Ntiri Supervisor Dr. Jan Svanberg December‚ 2010 1 Abstract After almost two decades that privatization took place in Africa‚ especially in Ghana‚ there is not much empirical knowledge concerning the financial and operating performance of
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Introduction: The Roaring Dragon Hotel (RDH) is a State Owned Enterprise (SOE) and one of the renowned Hotels in South West China. It has great reputation and a very good history in serving the customers and having very healthy relationship with the employees (Grainger‚ 2008). Background: The employees are transferred from other State owned Enterprises and other government departments on ‘guanxi’. They had a relaxed organizational culture‚ Tian Wen was the General Manager in 2000‚ and he used to
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------------------------------------------------- Philippine Laws -Simplified | Free Legal Advice Welcome! I’m Giancarlo Enrico S. Pozon‚ a Wushu instructor‚ investor and Law Student... That’s right‚ Law Student. I created this blog to make Philippine Law easy to understand for the average person. It’s all about free legal advice. There are many law blogs. But the problem is that many of them are written for lawyers and law students. They use words that can’t be understood by ordinary people. Many
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International Journal of Advanced System and Social Engineering Research ISSN 2278-6031‚ Vol 3‚ Issue 1‚ 2013‚ pp18-22 http://www.bipublication.com ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF PRIVATISATION IN INDIA Anant Kousadikar and Trivender Kumar Singh* *Jatan Swaroop PostGraduate College‚ Kayasthwada‚Sikandrabad(U.P.)‚ Distt: Bulandshar [Received-05/12/2012‚ Published-17/01/2013] ABSTRACT Privatization in generic terms refers to the process of transfer of ownership‚ can be of both permanent
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Centrally planned economy is defined as an economic system whereby economic factors are fixed by central authorities namely the states and the government of a respective nation. Such system is as opposed to one where decisions are made by private residents and companies‚ specifically the market economic system. Centrally planned economy approaches toward an assumption in which the market does not revolve around the utmost interest of the people‚ and that central power decisions are required in
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30 September 201111 Word Count: 2500 Kopano Seopela 608S2360 08 Fall SA Economy: Nationalising South Africa’s Mining Sector Kopano Seopela 608S2360 Luyanda Period 3 (09.25) SA Economy: Nationalising South Africa’s Mining Sector Economics 314 30 September 2011 Abstract The purpose of the essay sets out to look at the concept of nationalisation‚ research it and discuss whether it is an applicable strategy to implement into South African policy. The importance of the essay is to highlight the
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State Owned Enterprises in china The problem of the state-owned enterprises is like a big‚ broken-down truck that is blocking the road to development in China. Some traffic can find its way around the wreck but the difficulty that it creates grows with time. People are reluctant to destroy the truck because of the thought of how useful it would be if only it worked. There are about 300‚000 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China but the real problem lies with the very large enterprises that need
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