| List of Figures | p. viii |
| List of Boxes | p. xi |
| Foreword by the President of the Club of Rome | p. xii |
| Preface | p. xiv |
| Editors' Acknowledgements | p. xvi |
| Introduction | |
| Limits to Privatization | p. 3 |
| Privatization in Many Sectors: Case Studies and Snapshots | |
| Initial remarks | p. 15 |
| Watural Resources and Related Industries | |
| Water | |
| Solving water-supply problems in Bolivia: Beyond Cochabamba | p. 17 |
| A 'Waterl'eau' in Grenoble, France | p. 21 |
| Manila: A success story turned sour | p. 25 |
| Thames Water Utilities Limited, UK | p. 27 |
| Water privatization in Tanzania: Mixed results | p. 31 |
| Budapest sewage works: Partial privatization of a Central European utility | p. 34 |
| Management success at Rostock, Germany | p. 39 |
| Metals and Cement | |
| Privatization of the mining sector in Zambia: The case of Zambia Consolidated Cooper Mines (ZCCM) | p. 41 |
| Saving Sidex Galati steel mills in Romania | p. 46 |
| Union Miniere Pirdop Copper, Bulgaria: A case of privatization and the environment | p. 47 |
| Other Resources | |
| The fight against patents on the neem tree | p. 51 |
| The basmati patent | p. 55 |
| Privatizing nature: Plundering biodiversity | p. 58 |
| Private forests in Germany | p. 61 |
| Network Industries | |
| Energy | |
| Enron: Unregulated master of influence | p. 65 |
| The price to pay for deregulation of electricity supply in California | p. 66 |
| Telecommunication and Postal Services | |
| Telecommunications in Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina: A tale of contrasts | p. 72 |
| Privatization of telecommunication in Japan | p. 76 |
| Privatization in outer space: Lessons from Landsat and beyond | p. 79 |
| TPG Post: a Dutch privatization success | p. 84 |
| Transportation | |
| British Rail | p. 87 |
| Economics of transport and privatization | p. 92 |
| Japanese National Railways | p. 93 |
| Regionalization as part of rail restructuring in Germany | p. 96 |
| Privatization of the transport sector in Argentina | p. 98 |
| Air New Zealand | p. 102 |
| Skyguide: A case of corporatization | p. 104 |
| Other Services | |
| Waste Disposal | |
| No time to waste: How to avoid too much of a bad thing (Germany, Malaysia) | p. 108 |
| Insurance | |
| Abolishing property insurance monopolies in Germany | p. 114 |
| Culture and Media | |
| Privatization of-Italian cultural heritage | p. 118 |
| The Salzburg Festival: An example of public responsibility and private money | p. 122 |
| The global media monsters: Private media dominate the world's public sphere | p. 124 |
| Health | |
| Partial privatization of healthcare in Chile | p. 130 |
| Healthcare in the US | p. 134 |
| Healthcare reform in Zambia | p. 137 |
| Pharmaceutical research and development for neglected diseases: Market failures and the case of sleeping sickness | p. 140 |
| Education | |
| Education in Chile | p. 145 |
| Community-managed basic education in Guatemala: A solution for the poor? | p. 147 |
| The increasing privatization of universities in Tanzania | p. 151 |
| Pensions | |
| A weak spot in the US private pension system | p. 156 |
| The Swiss three-pillar pension system | p. 159 |
| Police and Security | |
| 'Rent a soldier': The privatization of security and war and the case of mercenary companies in Africa | p. 162 |
| Privatization of police services in Frankfurt, Germany | p. 165 |
| Private prisons in the US | p. 169 |
| Privatization in Context | |
| Initial remarks | p. 173 |
| The General Context | |
| Post-war history: The ups and downs of the public sector | p. 175 |
| The global context: Privatization in a globalizing world | p. 190 |
| The Regional Context | |
| Privatization in G7 countries | p. 201 |
| Privatization in Latin America | p. 207 |
| Liberalization of services: Experiences of African consumers | p. 212 |
| No limits? Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe | p. 215 |
| Privatization in South Asia | p. 222 |
| Special Issues | |
| Essential services: Shifting the burden of proof | p. 228 |
| Privatization of the infrastructures | p. 235 |
| The top public service transnational corporations | p. 239 |
| How GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) jeopardizes essential services | p. 246 |
| Privatization and development | p. 252 |
| Privatization and corruption | p. 263 |
| Employment impacts of privatization | p. 267 |
| Women's rights under privatization: The example of Bulgaria, Poland, Russia and the Ukraine | p. 271 |
| Environmental impacts of privatization | p. 278 |
| Does privatization provide the right choice of choice? Observations from the UK | p. 282 |
| Governance of Privatization | |
| Initial remarks | p. 289 |
| Regulation | p. 291 |
| Example: Water privatization working for the poor - first dos and don'ts of regulation | p. 298 |
| Example: Accountability instead of privatization - The Parana (Brazil) school performance report cards | p. 304 |
| Privatization and Municipal Democracy | p. 307 |
| Financing Global Public Goods: Challenges | p. 311 |
| Example: Private funding of infrastructure in developing countries | p. 318 |
| Escaping Pernicious Dualism: Civil Society between the State and the Firm | p. 325 |
| Private Governance: Private Rules for Privatization? | p. 328 |
| Example: The 'CSR navigator' | p. 334 |
| 'Co-evolution' between State Regulation and the Private Sector | p. 341 |
| Conclusion | |
| Lessons Learned from Privatization | p. 351 |
| About the Editors and Authors | p. 363 |
| Notes | p. 369 |
| List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | p. 378 |
| References | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 407 |
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