Bangladesh, the world's poorest large country, has privatized more state-owned industries than any other developing nation. This policy-orientated study traces Bangladesh's economic fortunes in its British, Pakistani and independent periods. Around the theme of a traditional society coping with modernization, the study analyzes in depth the effects

C.E. Humphrey

Introduction -- Privatization-An Overview -- The Prelude-Colonialism, Partition, Liberation, and Nationalization -- The First Phase (1975-1981) -- The Second Phase (1982-1988) -- The Private Sector's Performance -- The Public Sector's Performance -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Divested Industrial Enterprises -- State-Owned Enterprises -- Survey Questionnaire for Privatized Enterprises -- Terms and Conditions for Transfer of Ownership of Privatized Jute Mills