This edition of the IPPR’s Quarterly Economic Review includes a special feature on Public Enterprise Reform. The issue of the fiscal burden placed on the nation’s public finances by underperforming public enterprises (or State-Owned Enterprises) has been a perennial concern since the 1990s when so many new state-owned companies were created. And like so many other fiscal issues (the size of the public sector wage bill, the competitiveness of the country’s tax system, the sustainability of public debt, the cost of PSEMAS and others) this is an issue that decade after decade never seems to get resolved.
