Author: Jan Svejnar
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Government business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The severity of labor redundancy has been underestimated because of difficulties in conceptualizing the issue and finding politically acceptable solutions. Schemes to reduce labor redundancy can decrease the wage bill significantly and allow fairly high compensation to the employees laid off yet still allow the government to recoup its costs in a relatively short time.
Reducing Labor Redundancy in State-owned Enterprises
Author: Jan Svejnar
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Government business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The severity of labor redundancy has been underestimated because of difficulties in conceptualizing the issue and finding politically acceptable solutions. Schemes to reduce labor redundancy can decrease the wage bill significantly and allow fairly high compensation to the employees laid off yet still allow the government to recoup its costs in a relatively short time.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Government business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The severity of labor redundancy has been underestimated because of difficulties in conceptualizing the issue and finding politically acceptable solutions. Schemes to reduce labor redundancy can decrease the wage bill significantly and allow fairly high compensation to the employees laid off yet still allow the government to recoup its costs in a relatively short time.
Reducing Labor Redundancy in State-owned Enterprises
Author: Jan Svejnar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
People’s Republic of China
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451807783
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This Selected Issues paper analyzes state-owned enterprise (SOE) development and reform in China. The paper discusses the role of state ownership in the Chinese economy, providing a “snapshot” of key features of the state sector, and a review of the growth, efficiency, and profitability of SOEs. The paper argues that economic performance in SOEs has declined in the last few years as evidenced by falling profitability, increasing losses, growing industrial inventories, and low rates of capacity utilization in some sectors. The paper also examines banking sector development and policy issues in China.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451807783
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This Selected Issues paper analyzes state-owned enterprise (SOE) development and reform in China. The paper discusses the role of state ownership in the Chinese economy, providing a “snapshot” of key features of the state sector, and a review of the growth, efficiency, and profitability of SOEs. The paper argues that economic performance in SOEs has declined in the last few years as evidenced by falling profitability, increasing losses, growing industrial inventories, and low rates of capacity utilization in some sectors. The paper also examines banking sector development and policy issues in China.
Sustainable Transport
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821335987
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"This publication elaborates on how the specific characteristics of the different transport subsectors affect the potential for expanding the role of competitive markets. It defines the principal challenges currently faced by the transport sector as a whole as: (i) the completion of basic infrastructure networks and (ii) the provision of adequate maintenance for them. Future challenges may include: (i) increasing responsiveness to customer needs, (ii) adjusting to global trade patterns, and (iii) coping with rapid motorization. These challenges highlight the need to reform institutional and transport policy in order to support a better quality of life on a sustained basis. This book identifies some generally applicable principles and best practices as the foundation of a policy for more sustainable transport. Economic and financial sustainability requires that resources be used efficiently and that assets be maintained properly. Environmental and ecological sustainability requires that the external effects of transport be taken into account fully when public or private decisions are made that determine future development. Social sustainability requires that the benefits of improved transport reach all sections of the community. It is necessary to redefine the role of governments in the transport sector--the focus in transport policy must shift toward a market-based approach with the private sector taking on more of the responsibility for providing, operating, and financing transport services and infrastructure. The role of the government would therefore decline, but its importance as the enabler of competition and the custodian of environmental and social interests would increase. The World Bank Group's role will be to focus on institutional and policy reform; it can help governments fulfill their enabling and supervisory role in a freer transport market through more selective and focused technical assistance for building the capacity and skills needed by the public sector." -- Website.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821335987
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"This publication elaborates on how the specific characteristics of the different transport subsectors affect the potential for expanding the role of competitive markets. It defines the principal challenges currently faced by the transport sector as a whole as: (i) the completion of basic infrastructure networks and (ii) the provision of adequate maintenance for them. Future challenges may include: (i) increasing responsiveness to customer needs, (ii) adjusting to global trade patterns, and (iii) coping with rapid motorization. These challenges highlight the need to reform institutional and transport policy in order to support a better quality of life on a sustained basis. This book identifies some generally applicable principles and best practices as the foundation of a policy for more sustainable transport. Economic and financial sustainability requires that resources be used efficiently and that assets be maintained properly. Environmental and ecological sustainability requires that the external effects of transport be taken into account fully when public or private decisions are made that determine future development. Social sustainability requires that the benefits of improved transport reach all sections of the community. It is necessary to redefine the role of governments in the transport sector--the focus in transport policy must shift toward a market-based approach with the private sector taking on more of the responsibility for providing, operating, and financing transport services and infrastructure. The role of the government would therefore decline, but its importance as the enabler of competition and the custodian of environmental and social interests would increase. The World Bank Group's role will be to focus on institutional and policy reform; it can help governments fulfill their enabling and supervisory role in a freer transport market through more selective and focused technical assistance for building the capacity and skills needed by the public sector." -- Website.
Policy Options for Reform of Chinese State-owned Enterprises
Author: Harry G. Broadman
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821336861
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Annotation World Bank Discussion Paper No. 335. Presents the proceedings of a high-level international symposium on Chinese state-owned enterprise reform held in Beijing, China, June 1995. This report includes five policy option papers presented by Chinese officials and one presented by the World Bank Group that makes recommendations for reform on the basis of the Group's international experience in this area.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821336861
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Annotation World Bank Discussion Paper No. 335. Presents the proceedings of a high-level international symposium on Chinese state-owned enterprise reform held in Beijing, China, June 1995. This report includes five policy option papers presented by Chinese officials and one presented by the World Bank Group that makes recommendations for reform on the basis of the Group's international experience in this area.
Using Field Visits to Improve the Quality of Family Planning, Health, and Nutrition Programs
Author: Richard Heaver
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
A manual to help supervising staff find out what is really happening in the field, in a way that supports health workers and focuses on improving the quality of service to the poor.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
A manual to help supervising staff find out what is really happening in the field, in a way that supports health workers and focuses on improving the quality of service to the poor.
Measuring Commercial Bank Efficiency
Author: Dimitri Vittas
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Bancos comerciales
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Measuring bank efficiency is difficult because there is no satisfactory definition of bank output. International comparisons based on operating costs and margins are fraught with problems. These stem from substantial differences in capital structure (leverage), business or product mix, range and quality of services, inflation rates, and accounting conventions (especially about the valuation of assets, the level of loan loss provisioning, and the use of hidden reserves). Facile and uncritical use of ratios cannot substitute for detailed knowledge and understanding of banking structure and practice.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Bancos comerciales
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Measuring bank efficiency is difficult because there is no satisfactory definition of bank output. International comparisons based on operating costs and margins are fraught with problems. These stem from substantial differences in capital structure (leverage), business or product mix, range and quality of services, inflation rates, and accounting conventions (especially about the valuation of assets, the level of loan loss provisioning, and the use of hidden reserves). Facile and uncritical use of ratios cannot substitute for detailed knowledge and understanding of banking structure and practice.
Privatization in the Soviet Union
Author: S. I. Shatalov
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Post-communism
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Economic initiative has passed from the center to the republics, some of which have already moved from legislation to implementation of their own republic divestiture policies. In an optimistic scenario, this trend will continue. But even under the most pessimistic scenario, it is unlikely that privatization processes identified in this study will be stopped.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Post-communism
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Economic initiative has passed from the center to the republics, some of which have already moved from legislation to implementation of their own republic divestiture policies. In an optimistic scenario, this trend will continue. But even under the most pessimistic scenario, it is unlikely that privatization processes identified in this study will be stopped.
Global Trends in Raw Materials Consumption
Author: Boum Jong Choe
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Strengthening the Bank's Population Work in the Nineties
Author: Steven W. Sinding
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
These recommendations for the nineties focus on changing Bank strategies, not Bank policy.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
These recommendations for the nineties focus on changing Bank strategies, not Bank policy.