论私有制对坦桑尼亚国有企业的影响.pdfVIP

Impact of Privatization on Public Enterprises Case of Tanzania Nalingigwa Paschal A, 葛久研 School of Business and Economics, Hohai University, Nanjing, China (210098) Abstract It’s more than a decade now since Tanzania embarked upon comprehensive programme of restructuring public enterprises through privatization. During this period privatization has shown both success and failure to the economy. The success seems to outweigh the failure. Success can be measured by number of enterprises that have already been divested, performance of the firms, particularly those involved in the supply of public utilities which for the time being remain in the public sector domain, and the degree of competition enhanced by privatization in general. Failure seems to hinge primarily on the retrenches. This factor calls for further research to quantify the exact amount of loss job opportunities, since there are cases where divesture led to an increase in job opportunities. Indeed there are also cases where some of the retrenched were redeployed. Keywords ： Privatization; Impact; Public Enterprises 1. Introduction Beginning in the mid-1980s governments and citizens came to recognize the drawbacks of government control of enterprises .Competition was restrained, which resulted in lower quality of goods and reduced innovation. Domestic citizen were deprived of lower prices and of choice. The international competitiveness of state-controlled enterprises was suffering, which often resulted in the need for growing government subsidies. In addition, rather than focusing