The Distributive Impact of Privatization in Latin America: Evidence from Four Countries
By David J. McKenzie, Dilip Mookherjee. 2003
174 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This paper provides an overview of the results of a project that evaluates the distributive impact of privatization in four Latin America countries. The aim of the project was to estimate the effects of privatization on customers and workers, based on existing household and employment surveys. Four countries of varying size and per capita income were chosen for the study: two large, middle-income countries (Argentina and Mexico) and two small, poor countries (Bolivia and Nicaragua). This paper provides an overview of the methodology and results of the individual country papers, which contain further details concerning the privatization process and data sources used for each specific country. All four countries have undergone significant privatization since the late 1980s, and they have similar data sources that permit the application of a common methodology. The Nicaraguan case, however, was qualitatively different from the other three countries, in that large parts of the economy (including agriculture) were privatized as part of the transition from a socialist economy, while utilities that remained in the state sector throughout the 1990s were exposed to greater liberalization
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a54688c7e562cc64381a453f2524a9ff9984c63a
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Economics and Econometrics
In Sociology and Political Science
Citations in the corpus
- Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality (2004, unknown): “Indeed, recent public opinion polls and press articles report widespread discontent with privatization in general in Latin America (Finnegan, 2002; IDB, 2002; Tagliabue, 2002; McKenzie and Mookherjee, 2003).”
- Infrastructure and Development: A Critical Appraisal of the Macro-level Literature (2008, background): “From another angle, looking at the impact of privatisation on welfare, McKenzie and Mookherjee (2003) show that service extension to previously unconnected customers resulted in large welfare gains for the poorest households, while Boccanfuso et al. (2009) show that reform of electricity pricing…”
- Infrastructure: A survey of recent and upcoming issues (2006, background): “The most promising line of research may be the one followed by Olken (2005) to test the effectiveness of regulatory processes such as audits.”