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Performance gains through privatization and competition of Asian telecommunications.
ASEAN Economic Bulletin, December, 2002 by Ariff, Mohamed; Cabanda, Emilyn
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This paper investigates the relative performance of three Asian telecommunication firms--Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Company (NTT), Telekom Malaysia (TM), and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT)--after the adoption of both privatization and competition reforms from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
Privatization is justified as a restructuring method (change in ownership) to improve the accounting-cum-financial performance of state-owned and state-operated firms, which is distinct from competition or liberalization of an industry. Hence the maintained hypothesis is tested as ...
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