ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the evaluation experience in certain countries chosen from different regions. It looks at the agencies which have remit in public enterprise evaluation in the UK. The UK, with its long experience in public enterprise, presents several points of interest in context of evaluation. The Parliamentary Select Committee on Nationalised Industries was probably the first "external" agency entrusted exclusively with functions that covered several aspects of evaluation of these industries. The unique feature of Argentina in context of evaluation relates to working of an exclusive institution called Sindicatura General de Empresas Publicas. A major factor that has attracted the government's interest in evaluation is the continuously poor financial performance of most public enterprises. The chapter looks at the unique substantive features of the evaluation exercise. Evaluation becomes an aspect of national development strategy. The chapter talks about the only machinery for evaluation contemplated in Nepal - viz., the Corporation Co-ordination Division (CCD) of Ministry of Finance.
