Essays Tagged: "Privatization"

"The Need for Privatization" A paper on the reasons and benefits of the Privatization of Social Security.

The Need for PrivatizationEvery paycheck 7.65 percent is taken out for a retirement program, after the employe ... d. In the last several years we have had a fiscal surplus of 1 to 2 percent of GNP.Opinion of Privatization PlanStrongly Favor38%Somewhat in Favor31%Lean in Favor4%No Opinion12%L ... Strongly Opposed6%DK2%The future for Social Security looks grim, but there is some hope for privatization. The Republicans currently want private Social Security, and George Bush said "Don't t ...

(6 pages) 575 6 4.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The NDP and Its Inability to Garner Support Among the Poor.

ystem and believes in equality of the condition not just of the opportunity. They don't believe in privatization and believe that the well being of citizens is the most important goal. The NDP is as ...

(4 pages) 32 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Privatization of the power utility in The Bahamas. "BEC Should by Privatized. (external sources are cited)

apparent deficiencies and inefficiencies at the publicly owned power utility in The Bahamas. Energy privatization has been part and parcel of a recent world trend that has placed greater reliance on m ... act foreign investment capital to sustain the growing power requirements of the Bahamian population.Privatization, in its broadest sense, is the transfer of assets or services from the tax supported a ...

(10 pages) 59 0 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Essay is about the period of transition economies in Russia. Main problems and difficulties of it are also discribed.

start working to the full power. The market reforms include three stages: macroeconomic regulation, privatization and structural reforms. Particularly, in Russia the transition to the market economy w ... nsition to market economy alongside with the macroeconomic stabilization and structural reforms the privatization is a major element. It is the transition of state property in private sector of econom ...

(11 pages) 176 0 4.6 Dec/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Leadership of Margaret Thatcher, the first woman Prime Minister of Britain.

catalyst movement for the end of the twentieth century. Her groundbreaking views on monetarism and privatization manifested into one of Britain's biggest contributions to political economics in the w ... he pursued economic policies that decreased public spending, increased personal tax cuts, increased privatization of public utilities, bankruptcies resulted from her efforts to curb inflation and dere ...

(14 pages) 154 4 4.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians

A summary of Naomi Klein's Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate

arious articles and speeches devote themselves primarily to the international debate of free trade, privatization, and capitalism, while often conceptualizing the fundamental sociological principle pr ...

(2 pages) 29 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Important for stakeholder

the mission and objective, as Sodor Railway Engineering Corporation Plc (SREC) has recently become privatization. The objective which is whether shareholder or stakeholder such as employees, governme ...

(4 pages) 165 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Analysis of advantages and disadvantages of FDI

tors, particularly the more receptive attitude of governments to investment inflows, the process of privatization, and the growing interdependence of the world economy.Foreign direct investment (FDI) ...

(8 pages) 542 0 4.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Social Security Alternatives

individuals control the accumulation until they reached retirement age. Several different ideas for privatization have been introduced to the government, varying in the amount of privatization, but th ... ble the individual to diversify his or her account accordingly to their level of risk.Proponents of privatization believe that the plan would have the following outcomes: a greater return on investmen ...

(2 pages) 136 1 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Globalisation and the Contradiction of Peripheral Capitalism in Nigeria.

buted to the trade policies of the Thatcher administration in the United Kingdom; summed up as thus:Privatization of states assetsCuts in public spending, particularly through dismantling of welfare s ... cher in UK,Reagan in U.S, Kohl in Germany. Their policies put the worldOn the path of deregulation, privatization and dismantling...It promises that if market forces are left alone to their own device ...

(44 pages) 198 1 4.8 Aug/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Describe the three factions of new republican majority

social or global. This faction also tends to favor a smaller, decentralized government, preferring privatization of programs to federalization. The main issue that concerns fiscal conservatives is ta ...

(1 pages) 16 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Privatized Social Security Accounts Are an Alternative

heir discretion. The mere option of having options is a good idea for American Social Security, and privatization is the best option.Social Security benefits are currently the largest spending program ... urity as an ever-growing project and reform or regenerate it with every new generation of retirees. Privatization would put more control into the hands of the contributors; they could then take part i ...

(4 pages) 103 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

A term paper on "Halliburton", this paper deals with the privatization of our military and some of its effects.

n from other government sources. It makes sense fiscally when looked at on paper. But does all this privatization really save the government as much money as they say it does? Are the companies accoun ...

(9 pages) 136 0 4.7 Apr/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Evaluation of British Telecom'annual report

n recent years, BT should have witnessed major changes in the business world. Such as deregulation, privatization, globalization the growing expectations of shareholders and the impact of new technolo ...

(5 pages) 86 0 3.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

What conditions necessary to develop a stock market in an emerging economy?

ed policies may be reversed, however, and are initially not fully credible. We argue that sustained privatization and liberalization programmes represent a major test of political commitment to safer ... grammes represent a major test of political commitment to safer private property rights, successful privatization has a significant effect on emerging stock market development through the resolution o ...

(1 pages) 46 0 3.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Consider the view that the development and management of tourism at destination can not be left entirely in the hands of the private sector.

tail shopping (Elliot, 1997).In line with the current global trend of economic decentralization and privatization, the travel and tourism industry now enjoys a relatively high degree of operation auto ...

(6 pages) 89 0 3.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Features of Neoliberal Globalization

onomics in order to dominate the trade and investment, divide the nations and the countries through privatization of state products and services, and remove regulations that prevent monopoly integrati ... ucation, by the governmentDeregulation, to allow market forces to act as a self-regulating mechanismPrivatization of public enterprise (things from water to even the internet)Changing perceptions of p ...

(10 pages) 165 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Reflection Paper on the economic roles in the United States.

the U.S. economy. Those roles are: Economic Liberalism, Government Intervention, and Deregulation/ Privatization. To decide which role is most appropriate when talking about American economics, we mu ... . Overall though, deregulation ultimately provides customers more choices and lower prices on goods.Privatization can be defined as the shifting of government economic functions or services to the pri ...

(3 pages) 107 0 4.3 Jul/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Disinvestment by Indian Government

anagement control with the government, a policy described as "disinvestment" to distinguish it from privatization. In the year 1991 the national economic policy underwent a radical transformation. The ... the national economic policy underwent a radical transformation. The new policy of liberalization, privatization and globalization de-emphasized the role of the public sector in the nation's economy. ...

(8 pages) 23 0 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

The necessities of an emerging market and economic environment

s should be deregulated where the government does not set binding rules in the market. Thirdly, the privatization of state enterprises refers to enterprises that are not publicly owned by the state or ... to understate, thus domestic producers become more efficient as a result of foreign competition.Privatization of state enterprises or Laissez-faire is an initiative taken by private sectors to con ...

(4 pages) 30 0 0.0 May/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics