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The Environmental Implications of Privatization : Lessons for Developing Countries

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  • Magda Lovei
  • Bradford S. Gentry

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Governments worldwide have increasingly recognized the economic potential and fiscal advantages of privatization. What is less well recognized is that, under the right conditions, privatization can also yield environmental benefits and contribute to sustainable development. This report reviews a number of case studies to draw lessons about the environmental implications of privatization. It emphasizes that privatization offers an opportunity for making strategic decisions with longer-term impacts; streses that integrating environmental and social considerations into the privatization process leads to better, more sustainable outcomes; and recommends approaches to building on the positive linkages between privatization and environmental protection.

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  • Magda Lovei & Bradford S. Gentry, 2002. "The Environmental Implications of Privatization : Lessons for Developing Countries," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 14082.
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    1. Denis Claude & Mabel Tidball, 2010. "Efficiency inducing taxation for polluting oligopolists: the irrelevance of privatization," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 30(4), pages 2946-2954.
    2. Tohru Naito & Hikaru Ogawa, 2009. "Direct versus indirect environmental regulation in a partially privatized mixed duopoly," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 10(2), pages 87-100, June.
    3. Anthony G. Bigio & Bharat Dahiya, 2004. "Urban Environment and Infrastructure : Toward Livable Cities," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 15018.
    4. Bluffstone, Randall, 2007. "Privatization and contaminated site remediation in Central and Eastern Europe: Do environmental liability policies matter?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(1), pages 31-41, June.
    5. Sebastian Schmidt & Stephan Busse & Elshan Nuriyev, 2017. "Government and biodiversity governance in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: an institutional perspective," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 19(5), pages 1953-1980, October.

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