Privatization
Policies, Developments and Challenges
Published on 1. June 2016
177 pages
978-1-63484-776-6 (ISBN)
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Chapter One of Privatization: Policies, Developments and Challenges is to discuss the elements that caused the latest and current problems in the European economies and also, the imposed privatization (expropriation of the public wealth), as the remedy. This crisis started from the US and consequently, it was expanded to all economies of the world due to the systemic risk that globalization has induced to the developed and dependent nations. Thus, this European debt crisis is a crisis of capitalism. Chapter Two analyses different factors that may explain the changes in firms' performance after privatization in Europe. The final chapter explores how the American-based agro-industrial company Herakles Farm has thoroughly disregarded state and international laws and codes of conduct in the setting up of its contentious oil palm plantation that is largely located in-between protected areas in the ever-green forest of Southwest Cameroon.
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Content
- Intro
- PRIVATIZATION POLICIES, DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES
- PRIVATIZATION POLICIES, DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1 THE EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS AND THE IMPOSED PRIVATIZATION OF THE PUBLIC WEALTH
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- RECENT HISTORICAL RETROSPECT OF THE EUROPEAN CRISES
- THE GREEK DEBT CRISIS
- HISTORY OF PRIVATIZATION IN EUROPE
- HISTORY OF PRIVATIZATION IN GREECE
- PRIVATIZATION: A THEORITICAL AND GRAPHICAL PRESENTATION
- POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS TO PREVENT FUTURE CRISES AND EXPROPRIATIONS OF NATIONAL WEALTHS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 2 EXAMINING EUROPEAN PRIVATISATION PROCESSES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS AND HYPOTHESES
- SAMPLE, METHODOLOGY AND VARIABLES
- Sample Selection
- Methodology and Variables
- SUMMARY STATISTICS AND VARIABLE CORRELATIONS
- RESULTS
- European Privatisations and Firms' Profitability and Efficiency
- The Influence of State Control, Industry and Legal Environment on European Privatised Firms' Profitability and Efficiency
- Profitability
- Efficiency
- SUMMARY OF RESULTS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
- Chapter 3 THE CHALLENGES OF CONSERVATION AND LARGE-SCALE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN AN ERA OF NEOLIBERAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN CAMEROON
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE FRONTIER, TERRITORIALIZATION AND NEOLIBERALISM
- THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT: "VIRTUAL LANDLORDS AND TENANTS"
- TERRITORIALIZATION AND THE SUBORDINATION OF SMALL-HOLDER FARMERS IN CAMEROON
- 'EXCLUSION' FROM 'STATE SPACE'?
- NEOLIBERALISM, CONSERVATION AND TERRITORIALIZATION
- NEOLIBERALISAM, PRIVATISATION AND TERRITORIALIZATION
- LACK OF PRIOR, INFORMED CONSENT
- DISPLACEMENT OF NATIVE POPULATION
- UNLAWFUL DEMARCATION OF FARMLANDS
- LACK OF A PRIOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (ESIA)
- ILLEGAL FELLING OF TREES AND TIMBER EXPLOITATION
- OUTRIGHT DISRESPECT OF RESTRAINING COURT ORDERS
- LACK OF MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) AND NON-RESPECT OF INITIAL PROPOSED CONCESSION BOUNDARY
- NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES ON SOILS
- INCREASED MIGRATION AND DEPLETION OF RESOURCES
- SUPPRESSION OF FOREST RESOURCES
- LACK OF NEGOTIATION
- CORRUPT BUSINESS PRACTICES
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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