Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73950 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 127.2005
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Sub-Saharan African states urgently need expanded and more dynamic private sectors, more efficient and effective infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. Privatization is one way to address these problems. But African states have generally been slow and reluctant privatizers; a good percentage of industrial/manufacturing and most infrastructure still remains in state hands. Given prevailing public hostility towards privatization, and widespread institutional weaknesses, such caution is defensible, but nonetheless very costly. The long-run and difficult solution is the creation and reinforcement of the institutions that underpin and guide proper market operations. In the interim, African governments and donors have little choice but to continue to experiment with the use of externally supplied substitutes for gaps in local regulatory and legal systems.
Subjects: 
Privatization
Sub-Saharan Africa
JEL: 
F3
L3
N17
N27
N47
N77
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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