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    Privatization in the Third World

    Moderator
    Krogh, Peter F. (Peter Frederic)
    Repository
    DigitalGeorgetown
    Person Interviewed
    Sewell, John W.
    Young, Peter
    Abstract
    Examines the growing trend of privatization in the Third World.
    Description
    For decades America's aid to the Third World focused on development projects- the creation of essential infrastructure that specialists believed would lift economies to a level from which they could develop without further aid. Few countries ever made it to this level, however, and by 1986 the population of the Third World was soaring and economic growth had ceased or gone negative. U.S. and international aid agencies charged with helping the Third World began to look for new ways of stimulating developing economies. One trend rapidly gaining traction was privatization - the transfer of state owned enterprises to the private sector in the hope that free market competition would lead to increased efficiency and profitability. But was privatization the long-sought panacea for the third world's economies some experts claimed it to be, or just another developmental fad? In this episode, host Peter Krogh sits down with John Sewell, President of the Overseas Development Council, and Peter Young, Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute, to discuss the future of privatization in the Third World.
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/552645
    Date
    1986-11-22
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    Subject
    Privatization; Economic Assistance, American -- Developing countries; Aid and Development; International Economics, Trade and Business; Privatization; Third World Economies; United States Economic Assistance;
    Location
    International
    Publisher
    WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
     
    Blackwell Corporation (Washington D.C.)
     
    Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service
     
    South Carolina Educational Television Network
     
    Extent
    28 min.
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