The Government of Kuwait (GOK) is now moving decisively to reform its insolvency and creditor/debtor regime (ICR). Stakeholders recognize that Kuwait's ICR system had fallen behind that required for a...
While many governments in the Arab world have undertaken some privatizations since the early 1990s, many retain surprisingly large portfolios of fully, majority, or minority state-owned enterprises (SOEs)...
Since the taxation reform in 1994, most state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have not paid any significant dividend to the government in China. 1993 was the last year when 'revenue from enterprises' was still...
Analysis of China's portfolio of 174,000 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) (as of end-2001) reveals a clear split. China has some reasonably profitable large SOEs, many of which are centrally administered...
This paper addresses the question of how the Chinese state could exercise its ownership rights in large state owned enterprises in a more effective way, by drawing lessons from relevant international experiences...
This paper addresses the question of how the Chinese state could exercise its ownership rights in large state owned enterprises in a more effective way, by drawing lessons from relevant international experiences...