TY - BOOK AU - ED - International Monetary Fund. TI - Privatization and structural adjustment in the Arab countries: papers presented at a seminar held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 5-7, 1988 SN - 1557750424 AV - HD4334 .P75 1989 U1 - 338.925 PY - 1989/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - International Monetary Fund KW - Privatization KW - Structural adjustment (Economic policy) KW - Arab countries N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - This book is a collection of papers presented at a seminar held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 5-7, 1988, and sponsored by the Arab Monetary Fund, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Development Program, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. The purpose of the seminar was to debate an increasingly important issue, the economics of privatization. In addition to the editor's paper in which he highlights the basic issues of privatization, the book contains eight papers, each followed by a comment of a discussant or two discussants. Most of the papers are light and straight forward reading, especially for readers with economics backgrounds. ER -