Privatizing monopolies : lessons from the telecommunications and transport sectors in Latin America / edited by Ravi Ramamurti.

Other author Ramamurti, Ravi.
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1996.
Descriptionvi, 401 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Subjects
Privatization--Latin America.
Telephone companies--Latin America.
Airlines--Latin America.
Toll roads--Latin America.

Contents The new frontier of privatization / Ravi Ramamurti -- Pioneering telephone privatization : Jamaica / Alvin G. Wint -- Telephone privatization in a large country : Mexico / Ravi Ramamurti -- Telephone privatization in a hurry : Argentina / Ben Petrazzini -- A planned approach to telephone privatization : Venezuela / Antonio Francés -- Ownership and competition in Chile's airline industry / Ricardo Paredes-Molina and Ravi Ramamurti -- A privatization nightmare : Aerolíneas Argentinas / Robert Grosse -- Divestiture and deregulation : the case of Mexico's airlines / Pankaj Tandon -- One piece of a larger puzzle : the privatization of VIASA / Janet Kelly -- The Mexican toll roads program / William M. Emmons III -- Regulating private toll roads / José A. Gómez-Ibañez -- Multinational enterprises and telecommunications privatization / Mabelle G. Sonnenschein and Patricia A. Yokopenic -- Infrastructure concession design and financing issues / José Luis Guasch.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 95018040
ISBN0801851351 (alk. paper)