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Entry, Exit, Efficiency and the Question of Privatization: The Case of Bangladesh

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  • Akram, Tanweer

    (Department of Economics, Columbia University, New York, USA)

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This paper relates the issue of privatization of public enterprises (that is, the transfer of ownership and control of state owned firms to the private sector) with firm's entry, exit, and efficiency. The first section provides an overview of firm entry and exit and briefly reviews the empirical findings in industrial organization literature concerning firm entry and exit. The second section presents the findings of Sen's (1997) survey of privatized firms in Bangladesh and interprets the findings in light of industrial organization literatu

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  • Akram, Tanweer, 2000. "Entry, Exit, Efficiency and the Question of Privatization: The Case of Bangladesh," Bangladesh Development Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), vol. 26(1), pages 163-169, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:badest:0393
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    Keywords

    Privatization; Business entities; Manufacturing industries; Development studies; Industrial machinery; Business liquidation; Industrial economics; Industrial plants; Industrial efficiency; Public ownership;
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    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines

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