IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/jintdv/v15y2003i6p727-745.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Sri Lanka's plantation sector: a before-and-after privatization comparison

Author

Listed:
  • Ai Tee Loh

    (Asian Development Bank, Manila)

  • Booi Hon Kam

    (School of Marketing, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia)

  • John T. Jackson

    (School of Social Science and Planning, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia)

Abstract

Sri Lanka's plantation sector was privatized in 1992. By comparing the performance of the State Corporations prior to 1992 and that of the transformed privatized entities post-1992, this paper examines whether the operational efficiency of the sector has improved since privatization using six major efficiency indicators. While the results tend to favor the interpretation of an improvement in operational efficiency, data deficiency has made it difficult to identify possible causes for such an improvement. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Suggested Citation

  • Ai Tee Loh & Booi Hon Kam & John T. Jackson, 2003. "Sri Lanka's plantation sector: a before-and-after privatization comparison," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 15(6), pages 727-745.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:15:y:2003:i:6:p:727-745
    DOI: 10.1002/jid.989
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1002/jid.989
    File Function: Link to full text; subscription required
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/jid.989?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Bos, Dieter, 1991. "Privatization: A Theoretical Treatment," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198283690.
    2. William T. Gormley, 1994. "Privatization Revisited," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 13(3‐4), pages 215-234, September.
    3. Bishop, Matthew & Kay, John & Mayer, Colin (ed.), 1994. "Privatization and Economic Performance," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198773443.
    4. Attiat F. Ott & Keith Hartley (ed.), 1991. "Privatization And Economic Efficiency," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 345.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ghulam, Yaseen & Jaffry, Shabbar, 2015. "Efficiency and productivity of the cement industry: Pakistani experience of deregulation and privatisation," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 101-115.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Bozec, Yves & Laurin, Claude, 2000. "L’impact de l’annonce de la privatisation sur la performance," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 76(2), pages 265-298, juin.
    2. Bozec, Richard, 2004. "L’analyse comparative de la performance entre les entreprises publiques et les entreprises privées : le problème de mesure et son impact sur les résultats," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 80(4), pages 619-654, Décembre.
    3. N.F. Cruz & R.C. Marques & A. Marra & C. Pozzi, 2014. "Local Mixed Companies: The Theory And Practice In An International Perspective," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 85(1), pages 1-9, March.
    4. Kangsik Choi, 2006. "Mixed Motives of Simultaneous-move Games in a Mixed Duopoly," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 12(14), pages 1-7.
    5. Boudreaux, Christopher, 2019. "Do private enterprises outperform state enterprises in an emerging market? The importance of institutional context in entrepreneurship," MPRA Paper 93039, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Alberto Cavaliere & Simona Scabrosetti, 2008. "Privatization And Efficiency: From Principals And Agents To Political Economy," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(4), pages 685-710, September.
    7. Sebastian Hauptmeier & Martin Heipertz & Ludger Schuknecht, 2007. "Expenditure Reform in Industrialised Countries: A Case-Study Approach," Fiscal Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, vol. 28(3), pages 293-342, September.
    8. Dmitri Vinogradov & Elena Shadrina, 2018. "Public-Private Partnerships as Collaborative Projects: Testing the Theory on Cases from EU and Russia," International Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(5-6), pages 446-459, April.
    9. Denis Claude & Mabel Tidball, 2010. "Efficiency inducing taxation for polluting oligopolists: the irrelevance of privatization," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 30(4), pages 2946-2954.
    10. Mohamed Jellal & François-Charles Wolff, 2003. "Privatisation et négociation collective," Revue d’économie du développement, De Boeck Université, vol. 11(1), pages 73-99.
    11. E. Bruce Hutchinson & Leila J. Pratt, 2007. "Is Contracting Out Government Services the Great Panacea? Evidence from Public School Transportation in Louisiana," Journal of Private Enterprise, The Association of Private Enterprise Education, vol. 23(Fall 2007), pages 67-83.
    12. Newbery, David & Affuso, Luisa, 2000. "Investment, Reprocurement and Franchise Contract Length in the British Railway Industry," CEPR Discussion Papers 2619, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    13. repec:eid:wpaper:20/09 is not listed on IDEAS
    14. Claude Laurin & Anthony E. Boardman & Aidan R. Vining, 2004. "Government Underpricing of Share‐Issue Privatizations," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 75(3), pages 399-429, September.
    15. Ute Schumacher & Gladstone Hutchinson, 2003. "William E. Simon's capacities' approach to liberty: An essay in economic citizenship," Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 31(3), pages 283-288, September.
    16. Mohammed Omran, 2008. "The Performance of State-Owned Enterprises and Newly Privatized Firms: Does Privatization Really Matter?," Chapters, in: José María Fanelli & Lyn Squire (ed.), Economic Reform in Developing Countries, chapter 10, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    17. Kangsik Choi & Yuanzhu Lu, 2009. "A Model Of Endogenous Payoff Motives And Endogenous Timing In A Mixed Duopoly," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 48(3), pages 203-223, September.
    18. Bel, Gema, 1998. "Privatization on the stock market: Sale at one go or sale in tranches?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 58(1), pages 113-117, January.
    19. Misganaw Badasa, 2019. "Has Privatization Promoted Efficiency in Ethiopia?: A Panel Data Analysis on Large and Medium Scale Manufacturing Firms," Economic Research Guardian, Mutascu Publishing, vol. 9(2), pages 55-74, December.
    20. Lahmandi-Ayed, Rim & Laussel, Didier, 2022. "When do privatizations have popular support? A voting model," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    21. Oum, Tae H. & Adler, Nicole & Yu, Chunyan, 2006. "Privatization, Corporatization, Ownership Forms and their Effects on the Performance of the World’s Major Airports," 47th Annual Transportation Research Forum, New York, New York, March 23-25, 2006 208026, Transportation Research Forum.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:15:y:2003:i:6:p:727-745. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5102/home .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.