Part I. Broad Issues and Region-Wide Perspectives 1. Perspectives on state-owned enterprises reform and the MENA region Merih Celasun 2. Institutional analysis of state-owned enterprises reform and MENA region Mustapha K. Nabli 3. Privatization: a positive analysis with extensions to the MENA region Sahar M. Tohamy and Peter Aranson 4. Getting ready for globalization - a new privatization strategy for the Middle East and North Africa? John Page 5. Infrastructure privatization in the Middle East and North Africa Jamal Saghir 6. Savings and privatizations Ahme d Galal Part II. Country Studies 7. An analysis of compensation programs for redundant workers in Egyptian public enterprise Ragui Assaad 8. State-owned enterprise in Jordan: strategy for reform Taher H. Kanaan 9. Privatization in Sudan in the 1990's: prospects and problems El-Khider Ali Musa 10. State-owned enterprises and privatization in Turkey: policy, performance and reform experience Merih Celasun and Ismail Arslan 11. Productivity and profitability in 500 largest firms in Turkey, 1980-1994 Suley man Ozmucur 12. The relative efficiency of public manufacturing industry in Turkey: an intertemporal analysis using parametric and nonparametric production function frontiers Osma n Zaim and Fatma Taskn

In the rapid world-wide spread of privatization, progress in the Middle East and North Africa region has been markedly slow. This volume argues that a high level of overstaffing in public enterprises and the inability of economies to create jobs fast enough is mainly responsible for this. An in-depth study of the facts and a well-supported conclusion makes this an impressive collection of work on a very pertinent subject.