This SOE policy assessment tool has been prepared to assist CPSD TTLs to practically identify and conduct analysis of State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) issues in the development of CPSDs, with a focus on policy recommendations and reforms that can enable and foster private sector development. This tool is designed to provide a comprehensive assessment on the economy-wide and sector-wide enablers rather than firm-specific issues. This tool builds upon the integrated State-owned Enterprises Framework iSOEF (World Bank, 2019l) and provides further guidance with respect to the resources, evidence, and options of SOE reform in the context of CPSDs. The main authors of this tool are Dennis Sanchez Navarro (ETIMT), Tanja Goodwin (ELCDR) and Sunita Kikeri (EFNFS), under the technical guidance of Martha Martinez Licetti (Practice Manager, ETIMT), Mona Haddad (Director, CCEDR) and Caroline Freund (Director, ETIDR). The team would like to thank the valuable inputs, support and comments from Jean Saint-Geours (SSAA1), Jan Orlowski (ETIMT) and Georgiana Pop (ETIMT).

This document denoted as the SOE policy assessment tool is part of a 2-piece product prepared by the EFI Global Markets and Technology Unit to expose CPSD TTLs to the challenges and potential distortions than can be created in presence of SOEs in different markets as well as different policy alternatives to foster productive private-sector participation beyond full ownership transfer. The 2-products correspond to this CPSD SOE
policy assessment tool and a SOE CPSD knowledge note, which jointly should be considered as complementary documents for a comprehensive approach to address the challenges related to SOEs when promoting higher private sector participation in an economy building upon the existing integrated State-Owned Enterprise Framework (iSOEF).