Private Enterprise in Eastern Europe: The Non-Agricultural Private Sector in Poland and the GDR, 1945-83

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 1126 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Campbell ◽  
Anders Aslund
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Private Enterprise

Calling upon the Genius of Private Enterprise: The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 and the Liberal Turn to Public-Private Partnerships

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander von Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Private Enterprise ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
For Profit

President Lyndon Johnson declared the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to be “the most farsighted, the most comprehensive, the most massive housing program in all American history.” To replace every slum dwelling in the country within ten years, the act turned from public housing, the government-run program started in the 1930s, toward private-sector programs using both nonprofit and for-profit companies. As a result, since its passage, for-profit businesses have developed the great majority of low-income residences in the United States. The law also helped popularize the idea of “public-private partnerships,” collaborations of government agencies and non-government entities—including for-profit companies—for social and urban improvements. Remarkably, political liberals supported the idea that private enterprise carry out social-welfare programs. This article examines the reasons that Democratic officials, liberals, and housing industry leaders united to create a decentralized, ideologically pluralistic, and redundant system for low-income housing. It shows that frustrations with the public housing program, the response to widespread violence in the nation's cities, and the popularity of corporate America pushed the turn toward the private sector. The changes in housing and urban policy made in the late 1960s, the article concludes, helped further distinguish the American welfare state and encourage the rise of neoliberalism in the United States.

A Conversation with Tom Bata

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
AIden G. Lank
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Private Enterprise ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Management Company ◽  
Warsaw Pact ◽  
Personal Perspectives

It is because of the Bata Shoe Company's long association with Eastern Europe that I approached Thomas G. Bata for this interview. Bata, the chairman of Bata Limited (the Management Company) describes how, after having seen its assets expropriated by the Nazis and subsequently by the Communists, his company returned to its roots in Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s. Bata then shares his personal perspectives on the current and future climate for private enterprise and family business in some of the key former Warsaw Pact countries. He ends with some thoughts on opportunities for western consultants and family businesses in Eastern Europe.

PUBLIC REGULATION OF COOPERATION WITH INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ORGANIZATIONS: EXPERIENCE OF THE COUNTRIES OF EASTERN EUROPE

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 313-320
Author(s):  
Svetlana Nikolaevna Shostak
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
European Countries ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Social Efficiency ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
State Management ◽  
Eastern European Countries

The article analyzes the effectiveness of the activities of international financial organizations in the context of their cooperation with the countries of Eastern Europe. The article clarifies that financing by international financial organizations of the private sector of Eastern Europe creates preconditions for raising their economic and social efficiency and for creating not only collective but also social goods. The main goals of the Eastern European countries, financed by international financial organizations, are considered in detail. It is proved that the financing of the private sector of the Eastern European countries of the EBRD creates the preconditions for raising their economic and social efficiency and for creating not only collective but also public goods. However, the implementation of these prerequisites depends on a sound economic policy of the country, the timely formation of a new institutional structure for the functioning of the public sector, etc. It is noted that for the effective provision of this area of cooperation with the EBRD to the countries of Eastern Europe it is necessary: • facilitate the transition from the capital and labor-intensive export of industrial products to high-tech and innovative; • to provide state aid for the formation of foreign capital by creating special zones of export production with a favorable tax regime; • implement a planned approach to regulating the development of the national economy on the basis of optimization of the state procurement process, the formation of subsidies and other forms of state regulation of investment activity, etc. It is noted that in general, the experience of cooperation of the countries of Eastern Europe with international financial organizations and for Ukraine is important. After all, in Ukraine there are a number of political factors that hinder the development of foreign investments due to the non-adaptation of domestic enterprises to the world market conditions of cooperation. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to reorganize the structure of state management of industrial objects and to establish mechanisms for legislative regulation of this process.

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