dc.contributor.author | Karake, Karenzi | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-07T11:48:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-07T11:48:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Master of Arts in International Studies | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/19807 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study is a comparative analysis of privatization of public enterprises in Kenya and
Rwanda. The study seeks to assess the relative influence of patronage and economic
considerations on the exercise of public enterprise privatization in the two countries and the
impact of the confluence of the two variables on the realization of the goals of privatization.
The study has established that Kenya and Rwanda have initiated a policy to privatize both
performing and non-performing enterprises. The decision to privatize was based on convergence
of the interests of donor countries, international financial institutions and the governments of the
two countries. Privatization in the two countries was therefore a result of both political and
economic considerations, but political patronage played a more central role than economic
thinking.
The problems that faced Public Enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda were largely
mismanagement, and political interferences in the day-to-day operations of the enterprises. The
problems were compounded by structural difficulties in the economy of each of the two
countries. The solutions to the problem of poor performance of PEs therefore lie in the issues
and not in ownership of the enterprises. Privatization largely answers the question of ownership
rather than management or performance of the enterprises, and fails to merit therefore as panacea
for an ailing economy and poorly performing enterprises . | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.title | Political patronage and privatization of public enterprises: A comparative study of Kenya and Rwanda | en |
dc.title.alternative | A comparative study of Kenya and Rwanda | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |