Privatization South American Style.(Review) (book review)

American Political Science Review, March, 2001 by Murillo, Victoria M.

Privatization South American Style. By Luigi Manzetti. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 373p. $74.00.

Luigi Manzetti fills an important gap in the literature or market reforms in Latin America by providing a comparative analysis of privatization in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. He engages the literature on economic reform in developing countries by focusing on the implementation of this single policy and complements a burgeoning scholarship on the economics of privatization in the region. The main contribution lies in underlining the relevance of political factors for ...