Subject(s): Economic history -- Government business enterprises -- Government ownership -- Industrial efficienc -- Socialism -- State enterprise reform, contract, politics of reforming state-owned enterprises -- Bureaucrats are still in business : State-owned enterprise sector remains large despite increasing divestiture, SOEs affect economic performance -- Success and failure in SOE reform : Divestiture and SOE reform, outgrowing state owned enterprises , budgets, financial sector reforms, government and SOE managers -- Contracting - what works, what doesn't and why : Performance contracts- public managers, management contracts - private managers, regulatory contracts -- Politics of SOE reform : Political desirability, political feasibility of SOE reform, credibility of state-owned enterprise reform -- How to spur reforms and improve outcomes