A ministry renamed and a governance model reshaped: How centralisation of authority risks weakening oversight and increasing political influence over state enterprises. The recent decision to rename the Ministry of Finance and Planning as the Ministry of Finance and Public Enterprises represents more than administrative restructuring. Ministries are occasionally renamed to reflect expanding mandates or shifting priorities. Yet this particular change signals a deeper instituti

In the context of the stated intention to dissolve the PCB, it is timely to understand what the PCB is and its role before looking at the implications flowing from the decision to dissolve the PCB. What is the PCB. The Privatization and Corporatization Board; PCB is a self-perpetuating legal entity that came into existence with the ratification of Law No. 3/2013, ‘Law regulating the privatization, corporatization, monitoring and evaluation of SOEs’ gazetted on 17th January 20