The almighty investor
Trying to take back failing privatized public services exposes governments to the risk of being sued for gargantuan amounts by foreign corporations.
Source: New Internationalist
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View all >The legislation to tighten up privatization and post-privatization oversight
The parliament has approved on first reading legislation to tighten up privatization and post-privatization oversight. “The bill’s stated goal is to increase public control over the privatization of certain companies of great importance for Bulgarian economy. Deals on such companies or their assets will have to be approved by the Parliament.”
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CSOs as equal partners in monitoring public finance
CSOs as equal partners in monitoring public finance started from 2016 with the aim to improve accountability and transparency of the public finance in targeted countries and strengthen Civil Society Organisations’ (CSOs) role and voice in monitoring the institutions’ performance in that area. Key project activities are research and monitoring, advocacy, capacity building and transfer of knowledge/practices and networking in the field of the 4 specific topics: • public debt, • public-private partnerships, • tax equity and • infrastructure projects. More about the project and our work can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/BalkanMonitoringPublicFinance/