Dilemmas and Stakes of Privatising Public Enterprises for the Haitian State
- Records external debt of 1.2 billion US dollars, equal to 28 percent of GDP at the time.
- Puts the telecommunications operator's profits on the order of 65 million dollars a year while it served less than 30 percent of demand, which the thesis reads as growth potential rather than failure.
- Sets the investment required for proper functioning at 200 million dollars.
- Records revenues on the order of 221 million US dollars where subscriber tariffs were halved.
- Treats privatization as a contested policy rather than a technical necessity, which is what distinguishes it from the donor documents on the same program.
A political science master's thesis on the privatization of Haiti's state enterprises, setting the state enterprise in the context of third-world development and reading the privatization program against what the enterprises were and what they earned. It is a thesis rather than an evaluation, so it states its frame and its sources, and it treats the policy as contested rather than settled.
Its value is the figures it assembles on the enterprises themselves. It records external debt of 1.2 billion US dollars, equal to 28 percent of GDP at the time; the telecommunications operator earning profits on the order of 65 million dollars a year while serving less than 30 percent of demand, which is the case the thesis makes for growth potential rather than failure; an investment requirement of 200 million dollars for the enterprise to function properly; and revenues on the order of 221 million US dollars where subscriber tariffs were halved. Read with the 1995 modernization law, which the corpus also holds, it is the analytical counterweight to the instrument.
How to cite
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), 2010, Dilemmas and Stakes of Privatising Public Enterprises for the Haitian State, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/uqam-2010-privatisations-entreprises-publiques-haiti