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Strategic Communication for Privatization, Public-Private Partnerships, and Private Participation in Infrastructure ProjectsThis publication reviews the experiences of the World Bank and its clients in employing public communication programs during the processes of privatization and private sector participation. Drawing from academic and policy research as well as from case studies, it highlights good practices and identifies lessons learned through an examination of successes and failures. This publication also recommends principles of strategic communication and offers a methodology for researching and analyzing the communication issues associated with privatization and private sector participation. It includes an operational approach to design and implementation of public communication programs for the various forms of privatization and public-private initiatives. This publication is divided into two sections. The first section includes examples of privatization efforts, failures and successes, noting the role that was played by communication, or lack thereof. The second section sets out the key concepts and tools that communication specialists bring to privatization programs, along with examples of their effective use in both developed and developing countries.
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Alternatives to Infrastructure Privatization Revisited : Public Enterprise Reform from the 1960s to the 1980sFrustration with the performance of
 State-owned enterprises (SOEs) has led to two rounds of
 reform: the first round, from the 1960s through the 1980s,
 attempted to improve SOE performance while maintaining
 public ownership while the second, beginning in the late
 1980s, viewed privatization as the answer. Interest in the
 earlier round of reform has increased recently as
 controversy has slowed or halted privatization in many
 countries, especially for SOEs providing infrastructure
 services that are basic to everyday life and are thought to
 have elements of monopoly. This paper reexamines the
 earlier round of reforms, focusing particularly on efforts
 to increase the firms' capacity with infusions of human
 and physical capital, to strengthen managerial incentives
 through performance contracts and corporatization and to
 alter the mix of political and economic forces that impinge
 on the firm by strengthening the involvement of taxpayers,
 customers or private investors. The review suggests that
 these earlier approaches generated only modest success but
 that some of them, selectively applied, may be helpful in
 improving the performance of infrastructure firms that
 remain in public hands.
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The Impact of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure : Lights, Shadows, and the Road AheadAs numerous countries in Latin America
 and the Caribbean and elsewhere are moving toward a second
 phase of private participation in infrastructure programs
 mostly through public-private partnership schemes and other
 countries are just beginning the process, several concerns
 remain from the outcomes of the first phase. These concerns
 are making governments cautious in moving forward. The
 Impact of private sector participation in infrastructure
 addresses these concerns and brings clarity to the debate on
 the impact of private participation in infrastructure. The
 assessment of this impact may be one of the most emotional
 policy issues in economics, as it is clouded in a mist of
 myths, perceptions, and reality. This book analyzes the
 impact and sorts out the truth from the myths. The authors
 take a systematic and hard look at the facts (i.e., data) in
 Latin America, where starting in the late 1980s, many
 governments brought private sector participation into the
 delivery of essential utilities services. Although there are
 many assessments of this experience, none was able to rely
 on systemic, cross-country, and time-series data, and
 practically all of them did not save rare exceptions account
 for what would have happened in the absence of interventions
 (the counterfactual). This book does just that. It brings
 together an all encompassing database from the 1980s to the
 first decade of this century and develops an effective and
 robust methodology, accounting for the counterfactual, which
 tests and estimates the impact of reform on an exceptionally
 wide set of outcome indicators. As a result, this book
 presents the most in-depth study to date of the private
 sector participation experience in Latin America, and it
 substantially advances the existing literature by offering
 robust econometric analysis.