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Introduction

In: Privatisation Performance in Major European Countries Since 1980

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  • Motasam Tatahi

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Privatisation as an extensive programme emerged in western European countries at the beginning of the 1980s, as governments seeking cost reductions turned to the private sector to provide services that would ordinarily have been provided by governments. This withdrawal of state involvement in industry, which came to be known as ‘privatisation’, takes place through a number of policy initiatives. The most common is a change from public to private in the ownership of an enterprise (or part of an enterprise). Alternatively, public enterprise may remain in existence while privatisation takes place without transfer of ownership of assets. Falling into this category are liberalisation involving deregulation of controls on entry, price, output and profit, as well as the adoption of a commercial approach, whereby the provision of a good or service moves from the public to the private sector, but with ultimate responsibility for providing the service remaining with the government, frequently referred to as ‘contracting-out’.

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  • Motasam Tatahi, 2006. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Privatisation Performance in Major European Countries Since 1980, chapter 1, pages 1-9, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62495-5_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230624955_1
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