There is a lot of literature on privatisation in Uganda. Check it out on google scholar 

You may start with this paper:http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdf/10.1108/09513559410061740

Thank you Thanesh and Joseph for the links.

Now I would like to elaborate my question as follows:

Privatization wave of the 1980s and 1990s is regarded as one of the major economic and financial events of the twentieth century both in the developed and developing countries. However, the wave gradually slowed down at the turn of the century. Again, as the Privatization Barometers Report 2013/14 demonstrates, it got momentum in 2009. Since January 2009, the global privatization total exceeded US $ 1.1 trillion, far more than any comparable period since privatization was started. The report predicts that the world will witness a new wave of privatization in the days to come. Is privatization a never ending process? Is it relevant for all times, all seasons?

I am curious to know how the UK stood as the second largest privatiser in 2013 raising US$ 16.27 billion from 12 sales which was said to have sold out virtually all the state owned enterprises by 1997 (Vickers and Yarrow 1988; World Bank 1995). We don’t find any major privatization failures in the case of UK as it happened in many countries like Spain, India and Pakistan.

Are there any genuine privatization process where private ownership and public control doesn’t coexist? We find plenty of literature on privatization failure/failure to privatize but not much success stories. How many countries did really well in the last 35 years or so?  

I am also curious to know if there are any specific criteria to evaluate privatization success or failure(other than the broader policy success/failure).

My book on privatization in the water sector, "Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure" (Cambridge, 2014) may be of use: it seeks to explain variation in privatization outcomes in the developing world. 

Thank you Alison; I have gone through the book review but yet to go through the book. Now its on my list.

My PhD at Manchester University was on the macroeconomic and social aspects of privatisation in general and with the specific case of Portugal

Thank you Colin for your information. Have you published any article on this topic (in English)? I am also interested in political dimension but I think economic and social dimensions are extremely important to understand political impact of privatization.  

Privatisation is not a never-ending process as governments run out of things to sell. The easiest ones tend to be industries that previous governments nationalised, then some utilities that were established by governments. In the case of Australia's federal government, having privatised Qantas, Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank, the only major government business enterprises left are Australia Post and the NBN (and for both of them there would be a problem in ensuring rural regions continue to be serviced at low cost if they were privately run) and ABC/SBS.

Thank you John for the informative comments.

Here in the UK, the Conservative government is continuing with its programme of privatisation in the public sector.  The issue for us is that the delivery of public services is a statutory requirement in exchange for the taxes we collect.  Wholesale privatisation is difficult because the state or local authority must retain overall responsibility for the provision of that service and therefore needs to retain some control to ensure the service is being provided at a reasonable rate and quality.  The complexities of legality and statute render the principle of privatisation a difficult and convoluted one to enact.

Thank you Sue for sharing your experience and insights.

the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), particularly on the segment dealing with foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions. All these underscore that while national boundaries may exist in the physical and geographical realm, in financial terms, the world has been perceived increasingly as a global hamlet where goods and services must be allowed to move freely and fully across domestic boundaries, and all manners of trade restrictions and inhibitive tariffs abolished.

            It is a truism that Britain and New Zealand led the way of some developing countries towards overhauling public enterprises at the beginning of the 1980s. This phenomenon has gained worldwide support and frenzy. Following the privatisation of British Telecom in 1984 under the Telecommunications Act, and the host of the other privatisations that took place in Britain thereafter, several nations particularly those in Africa, have come to embrace the principle as a way of eliminating low performance and inefficiency in the public enterprises sector. In the former public enterprises was pushed through a comprehensive privatization with commercialization.  Other developed and developing nations world wide combined aspects of the British and New Zealand approaches.

You may read the paper below, albeit conceptual, it has country level examples

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/MEQ-08-2014-0130

Thank you Emmanuel; its interesting and useful.

Emmanuel  my PhD at Manchester was on the macroeconomic and social impacts of privatisation with reference to Portugal.  This included case study analysis of around 10 state companies and their performance before, during and after provatisation.

Dr Colin Barnes

Wolfson College, University of Cambridge

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Privatisation attempted to morph into PPP, and that effort has damaged the latter. So, have your radar up to avoid getting trapped in the confusion. See these two:

Article Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) on Moulding State Structur...

Preprint Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Africa: Harking the Holonomic

Dear Fred

If you need more references please le me know. i could also try and retrieve my Leeds University lecture PPTs which I used for teaching a Leeds

Best wishes

Colin Barnes