Exempel på parastatal

• However, haphazard privatisation may lead to a situation where parastatal inefficiencies are replaced with private sector excesses.

• At the same time, the government invested less in parastatal plantations, reducing forest clearing for agroindustrial crops.

• But at the same time they provide funds for activities that may threaten forests, such as road and railway construction and parastatal plantations.

• Yet the parastatal system was criticised for being inefficient, in some cases corrupt, and in all cases for underpaying producers.

• Fourth, in a colonial setting where the government needed to co-opt the local elite, the parastatal design provided an ideal institutional infrastructure.

• Given the dilemmas, the colonial government adopted a parastatal institutional design featuring several characteristics.

• Politically, the parastatal design embodies and continually reinforces the concept of farmers' ownership.

• Because of women's lack of education, parastatal industries mostly employed men.

• It promoted a state-capitalistic form of agricultural production with the development of parastatal farms that would transfer their modern techniques to small-scale producers.

• Overvalued exchange rates, lack of funds to invest in parastatal agriculture and weak international prices caused plantation agriculture and timber production to stagnate.

• From the perspective of the colonial government, the parastatal organizations were convenient arenas for managing the local elite.

• In water delivery, the parastatal institutions emphasize the importance of local knowledge, networking, and embedding irrigation staff in local communities.

• They received technical support from a parastatal infrastructure that expanded along with the rise in the country's national wealth.

• In addition, the party leadership wields enormous patronage through, for example, appointments in the public, parastatal and even (indirectly) the private sectors.

• A massive parastatal system for marketing produce was used to maintain high producer prices, with the cost passed onto consumers.