TY - BOOK AU - Celasun,Merih TI - State-owned enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa: privatization, performance and reform SN - 977424589x U1 - 338.95605 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Cairo PB - The American university in Cairo KW - Government business enterprises KW - Middle East KW - Case studies KW - Africa, North KW - Privatization N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface / Nemat Shafik -- Pt. I. Broad issues and region-wide perspectives. 1. Perspectives on state-owned enterprise reform and privatization in the MENA region: an overview / Merih Celasun. 2. Institutional analysis of state-owned enterprises reform and the MENA region / Mustapha K. Nabli. 3. Privatization: a positive analysis with extensions to the MENA region / Sahar M. Tohamy and Peter H. Aranson. 4. Getting ready for globalization: a new privatization strategy for the MENA region? / John Page. 5. Infrastructure privatization in the MENA region / Jamal Saghir. 6. Savings and privatization / Ahmed Galal -- Pt. II. Country studies. 7. An analysis of compensation programmes for redundant workers in Egyptian public enterprises / Ragui Assaad. 8. State-owned enterprise in Jordan: strategy for reform / Taher H. Kanaan. 9. Privatization of public enterprises in Sudan: prospects and problems / El-Khider Alj Musa. 10. State-owned enterprise and privatization in Turkey: policy, performance and reform experience, 1985-95 / Merih Celasun and Ismail Arslan. 11. Productivity and profitability in the 500 largest firms of Turkey, 1980-94 / Suleyman Ozmucur. 12. The relative efficiency of the public manufacturing industry in Turkey: an intertemporal analysis using parametric and non-parametric production function frontiers / Osman Zaim and Fatma Taskin N2 - This volume examines the reasons for the noticeably slow rate of privatization in the Middle East and North Africa. UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy042/00032208.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0650/00032208-d.html ER -