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Julia Dunn (829425)

Hugo Turner (3485318)

Aung Tun (3583535)

Roy Anderson (553232)

Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America: After a discussion of recent empirical literature on this topic, we ask two simple questions: Who are the people most dissatisfied with privatization? and: Why are they dissatisfied? To answer, we use social attitudes combined with objective controls at country level. The former include the results of three waves of Latinobarometro surveys (51,635 observations, 1998, 2000 and 2002, in 17 countries). The latter include privatization data and macroeconomic variables. The data on country-specific experiences of privatization come from two different data-set. One data set exploits information about 340 divestitures occurred in Latin American countries, over the period 1990-2001. The second includes 923 infrastructure projects with private participation (including divestitures, concessions and other contracts) over the period 1984-2002. We test several empirical models and we find that disagreement with privatization is most likely when the respondent is poor, privatization was large and quick, involved a high proportion of public services as water and electricity, in countries where there is high inequality of incomes. A robust non-linear relationship between socio-economic status and dissatisfaction with privatization  suggests that particularly middle-to-low income households, with a median level of nine years of education, perceive to have suffered from privatization. While misperceptions cannot be ruled out, this result is broadly consistent with recent empirical research in Latin America that points to distributional concerns in the implementation of privatization policy because of tariff rebalancing not adequately addressed by policy makers and regulators

J. Carrera

D. Checchi

M. Florio

AIR Universita degli studi di Milano

Privatization discontent and its determinants : evidence from Latin America

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While most economists usually believe that privatization policy is socially beneficial, it faces increasing opposition in several countries. In this paper we wish to discover the ingredients in a recipe for privatization discontent. To do so we focus on Latin America, where there is wide evidence of popular opposition to privatization. We use the results of Latinobarometro (2002), a survey of a representative sample of 18501 individuals in 17 countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral disaggregation, time profiles, proceeds, number of shares and other variables for each country. We use a set of macrovariables as controls, and test our prior beliefs on the determinants of policy failure in this area. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor, privatization was large and quick, involved a high proportion of public services as water and electricity, and the country suffered adverse macroeconomic shocks in a condition of high disequality of incomes. Moreover, the more the respondent is educated, the more adverse to privatization he or she is. We suggest that these results depict a broadly consistent picture of privatization discontent that points to a combination of perceived distributional concerns that should be addressed by future research and policy desig

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