| 词汇 | parastatal |
| 释义 | parastatal adjective[ before noun ] GOVERNMENTuk /ˌpærəˈsteɪtəl/us used to describe a company or organization which is owned by a country's government and often has some political power: The intention of the Government is for all parastatal companies to be privatized. Examples of parastatalparastatal However, haphazard privatisation may lead to a situation where parastatal inefficiencies are replaced with private sector excesses. At the same time, the government invested less in parastatal plantations, reducing forest clearing for agroindustrial crops. But at the same time they provide funds for activities that may threaten forests, such as road and railway construction and parastatal plantations. Yet the parastatal system was criticised for being inefficient, in some cases corrupt, and in all cases for underpaying producers. Given the dilemmas, the colonial government adopted a parastatal institutional design featuring several characteristics. Politically, the parastatal design embodies and continually reinforces the concept of farmers' ownership. It promoted a state-capitalistic form of agricultural production with the development of parastatal farms that would transfer their modern techniques to small-scale producers. Overvalued exchange rates, lack of funds to invest in parastatal agriculture and weak international prices caused plantation agriculture and timber production to stagnate. From the perspective of the colonial government, the parastatal organizations were convenient arenas for managing the local elite. In water delivery, the parastatal institutions emphasize the importance of local knowledge, networking, and embedding irrigation staff in local communities. They received technical support from a parastatal infrastructure that expanded along with the rise in the country's national wealth. In addition, the party leadership wields enormous patronage through, for example, appointments in the public, parastatal and even (indirectly) the private sectors. A massive parastatal system for marketing produce was used to maintain high producer prices, with the cost passed onto consumers. Changing the parastatal mode to a bureaucratic mode would simply require a complete overhaul of the government's agricultural bureaucracy. The potential conflict between control and autonomy is the tension inherent in the parastatal design. See all examples of parastatal These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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