Disinvestment in India [electronic resource] : policies, procedures, practices / Sudhir Naib.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naib, Sudhir.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disinvestment--India.

Disinvestment.

Privatization--India.

Privatization.

Government business enterprises--India.

Government business enterprises.

India--Economic policy--1991-2016.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In India the path chosen to reform the public sector has been to first deregulate and liberalise the economy and then to privatise public sector enterprises. Debates have raged on since then on: whether reform of state-owned enterprises is necessary; the choice of strategy and method; and the social and economic consequences of such policies. Sudhir Naib has incisively analysed, from a theoretically informed perspective, crucial aspects of this topical issue. Among the important aspects he discusses are:. - whether the failure of Indian public enterprises has been exaggerated. - can public ent

Contents:

The public sector in India

The effects of ownership and competition on efficiency

Strategy for privatisation

Privatisation and performance: the global experience

Disinvestment in India: policy, procedure and proceeds

Performance of disinvested central public sector enterprises in India: the empirical evidence

Corporate response to economic reforms

Privatised enterprises: then and now

Findings, policy implications and recommendations.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [450]-461) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-42534-X

9786612425349

81-321-0392-0

OCLC:

554571686