Privatisation in Poland: ten years after

Maciej Baltowski, Tomasz Mickiewicz

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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to compare economic discussion on privatisation, expected privatisation outcomes and actual results in Poland. First it discusses the privatisation of state enterprises in the broader context of the economic transformation programme designed and introduced at the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990. It examines the choice of privatisation methods, the political economy of privatisation and the three major policy issues: pace of privatisation, sequence of privatisation and the authority to initiate and carry out privatisation. The final section compares privatisation blueprints and actual results. The appendix presents a detailed technical guide to the privatisation methods in Poland and a basic set of figures illustrating the outcome.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)425-443
Number of pages19
JournalPost-Communist Economies
Volume12
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2000

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