المؤسسات العامة فى السودان بين الإصلاح والاستخصاص دراسة حالة مؤسسة النيل الأزرق الزراعية 1969 - 2000م

Abstract

ABSTRACT This dissertation Generally aitns to study and analyze the practice and experience ot‘ public corporations in Sudan, so as to find out the reasons lor their declining performance, \vhich negatively influences their expected role in development. Specifically, it aims to study and analyze the experience of privatization in Sudan, mainly focusing on the privatization process ofthe Blue Nile Agricultural Corporation. The main problem otithe dissertation could be summed up as that, the perloi"inaitce ol‘ public corporations in Sudan was not so weak to justify, or to be as a motive to its privatization, since some of them had achieved relative success in administering and achieving development in Sudan, tor example the Gezira Scheme and the Rahad Agricultural (‘orporation. But this couldn’t den_v the deteriorating and weak perlormance oli many oi‘ them, as a result ol‘ legal, administrative, linancial and technical problems those laced them, as well as the negative impact ol'the political, economic and social influences on their perlormance and hence on their expected role in development. So, some attempts lor their reforming and developing had been adopted, but they were not suflicicnt to make their privatization is the only alternative to relorin and de\ elop them, specially the privatization ol‘ so many of them didn’t achieve a considerable success. (iencrally, the privatization of public corporations in Sudan isn’t an easy process, so it has been confronted by some legal, administrative, linancial and technical problems, mainly the privatization process of the Blue Nile Agricultural corporation, which exposed to so many legal, administrative linancial and technical problems those influence the establishing and managing the new companies, and hence negatively reflected on the perliormance and the productivity of‘ the Blue Nile Agricultural Schemes. The descriptive -~ analytic approach had been used in presenting the intmmation related to the research topic. Also some of the research techniques had been used in collecting primary data, such as questionnaires \vhich had been analyzed on the computer by using the Statistical Package tor Social Sciences (SPSS), in addition to formal and informal interviews and observation. As well, the secondary data has

been obtained from the relevant literature in books, periodicals, researches, publications, reports and papers. 'l'he dissertation consists olisix chapters, as follows: Chapter One is an introductory part that includes the main outlines of the dissertation such as the problem, the hypotheses, the questions, and the approach. Chapter Tow deas with the main theoretical perspectives on public corporations. Chapter Three presents and discusses the most important theoretical perspectives on privatization theory. Chapter Four studies and analyzes the practice and experience of‘ public corporations, in addition to experience ofiprivatization in Sudan. Chapter Five analyses the primary and secondary data that related to the privatization experience ofithe Blue Nile Agricultural Corporation within these areas : Establishment Area, Internal Organization Area, External Relations Area, Evaluation Area. Lastly, Chapter Six introduces the findings, and testing the hypotheses by using statistical methods of‘Binomial Distribution and Chi ~ Square on the computer. The testing olihypotheses proves that there are different levels ofisignificance between the respondents’ responses which found appropriate to the dissertation hypotheses. Lastly, the chapter introduces the recommendations in respect to the findings, which could be classified into findings resulted from the analysis of‘ the secondary data, which related to the practice of public corporations in Sudan and the experience otitheir privatization as indicated in (6-l-l ). As well as to the findings resulted from the analysis olithe primary data, which related to the case study ofthe |)l‘l\’£tllZZtIlOI1 ofithe Blue Nile Agricultural Corporation, as listed in to-I-Z).