A Farewell to Paternalism through Public Enterprise? Privatization in the Small Island State of Malta

Godfrey A. Pirotta

International Review of Public Administration, 2001, vol. 6, issue 1, 39-48

Abstract: This final article in the symposium considers the end of state paternalism in Malta. Such paternalism through the extensive use of public enterprises and other arrangements had become an accepted and expected way of life. In 1999, however, the government declared its commitment to a policy of widespread privatization, to a large degree in response to a sizeable public deficit and the country’s bid to join the European Union at the next round of EU enlargement. The unions and local entrepreneurs in particular remain unconvinced that, given the country’s small size and a lack of strong foreign investment, privatization will deliver the various benefits envisaged by the government.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2001.10804968

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