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113392
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2012.
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This article is based on a case file examining the allegedly corrupt behavior of the district governor (kaymakam) of Eregli, located in the Black Sea coal district of the Ottoman Empire, before the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. It paints a vivid picture of the cronyism, greed, and demands for justice that abound in the testimonies and petitions of a diverse array of local actors that were included in the case file. These documents provide the opportunity to shed light on, among other things, the growing nexus between state power and capital in the late Ottoman Empire within a little-studied peripheral context. As the article shows, prospects of control over the region's burgeoning coal economy led to abuses among officials at various levels of the local and imperial bureaucracy, the impacts of which were felt (to varying degrees) by a wide cross-section of Eregli society. The behavior of the district governor and his allies, along with the final decision made in the case, reveals much about power, wealth, and justice in the final years of the Abdülhamit regime.
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130778
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104124
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072865
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2006.
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Coal mining has been one of the biggest loss-making sectors among China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and the performance of the industry might thus throw light on broader questions of enterprise performance during China's reform period. After outlining the overall financial performance of coal mining SOEs, the article examines the medium- and long-term influences on the performance of coal mining enterprises in four major categories--those relating to government policies, to the market, to the particular nature of coal mining as an extractive industry, and to internal enterprise operation. The article concludes that, up to the mid-1990s, the state's economic priorities expressed through the fixing of prices were the most important negative influence on coal mining profits. After the incomplete deregulation of prices by 1994, while the government's role remained important, price competition in the context of more conventional economic cycles became the key influence. This article hopes to add an important industry perspective to a debate that has in the past focused either on the SOE sector as a whole or on individual enterprises or groups of enterprises.
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096232
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2010.
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Using firm-level data for China's state-owned coal mines, this paper examines the impact of privatization, corporatization and debt restructuring of state-owned enterprises on technical efficiency. A stochastic frontier production method is applied to a panel dataset from 2000 to 2007. The simultaneous study of these three measures makes it possible to study individual effects more precisely than otherwise. The study shows that the three reform initiatives are all able to improve technical efficiency in state-owned coal mines. The finding of a significant efficiency improvement from relinquishing state ownership provides an alternative to privatization. The study of debt restructuring and technical efficiency has not been documented in the published literature.
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149925
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India's energy needs and development imperatives mandate an increase in power generation which at the current time is largely dependent on fossil fuel. The discourses surrounding development in these contexts subsume the rights of forest dwelling people to the necessities of power generation and therefore to coal mines. This article discusses the responses of a community of adivasis in Chhattisgarh to the imminent takeover of their land for new mines. The article then discusses the ramifications of ignoring the displacement of these people and the loss of their land and livelihoods and sets out some policy recommendations to remediate the impact of land acquisition through the strengthening of already existing laws and Government Acts. It calls for a holistic look at India's energy sources, methods to ensure compliance with compensation awarded, clarification of some parts of the Lands Acquisition Act and the speedy implementation of Community Forest Rights under the Forest Rights Act.
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