Privatisation vs Public services:

Argument : Whether the privatisation of services and facilities benefits the public?

List of questions related to this topic:

1. What's privatisation?

2. Why privatisation? [Y]

3. How to transfer from public services to privatisation? [Y]

- What's about current government employees that work for that service?

- Who gains benefit at the first step?

- How long will this process be last?

4. Is there any statistic of privatisation?

- In which countries (both developed and developing countries)?

5. Is there any poll/surveys involving this topic?

6. Is there any example of public services transformation?

7. Is there any benefit/impacts from privatisation?

Privatization No Privatisation
More efficiency Has privatization of state-owned enterprises in Iran led to improved performance?
http://search.proquest.com.virtual.anu.edu.au/docview/1445022071/fulltextPDF/1BDEF3
79F84E4518PQ/1?accountid=8330

[Note] results showed that profitability ratios fall and financial risk and leverage
increase. Furthermore, privatization does not have a significant effect on firms’ output
and sale efficiency

Attract foreign investors Public interest issue

(uncertain regulatory
environment) (no responsibility for failure)

Last scale loss of jobs

Political and economic incentives of government in partial privatization

http://www.sciencedirect.com.virtual.anu.edu.au/science/article/pii/S0929119914000
650

No government interfere
(if partialy privatisation , gov still have
right to control)
Monopoly (no competition) -> expensive

Problem of housing affordability

The impact of privatization of public housing on housing affordability in Beijing: An assessment using
household survey data
 http://lec.sagepub.com.virtual.anu.edu.au/content/26/5/384

Survival and Failure of Small Businesses Arising Through Government Privatization: Insights
from Two New Zealand Firms
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Cause recession

PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING: DID IT CAUSE THE 1998 RECESSION IN HONG KONG?
http://search.proquest.com.virtual.anu.edu.au/docview/274222633?pq-origsite=summon

===============Question for consultation==================

1. Source for referencing must have peer-reviewed. If I just realize that it peer-reviewed, then we can assume that it’s reliable &
academic?

2. Can I put personal opinion in essay? If so, how?

3. Can we use case studies from some specific country in our essay?

4. How to decide whether to support or deny the argument?

5. How to make it stronger if it’s true for some not true for all?

6. If we have several resources to support our argument? Which one we should use?
Privatisation – against

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