| Also, as in Argentina, privatization had the advantage of bringing funds into the national treasury. |
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| Many press accounts have misread this book as an indictment of incentive zoning or as a polemic against privatization. |
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| Unfortunately, many of the businesses mooted for privatization are either virtual monopolies or operate in oligopolistic environments. |
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| What's more, privatization proponents ignore the fact that bear markets can last a long time. |
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| At issue was an ultimatum issued for a crackdown on the privatization of health care. |
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| No one would have expected ultraconservative San Diego to be the cradle of a revolution against privatization. |
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| That's even more striking when considering that Bolivia's known gas reserves have grown ninefold since privatization. |
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| The strike began eight months ago with the objective of preventing the privatization of health services. |
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| When capital starts to flee, it can be brought back by tax cuts, deregulation, privatization, etc. |
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| After 1989, socialized medicine ended and medical care moved toward privatization. |
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| The privatization of an undertaking may also give rise to questions concerning state aid, depending upon the terms of the privatization. |
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| In addition, the government had been able to reduce direct taxation and pay off part of the national debt from the proceeds of privatization. |
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| The Government has also established new regulatory bodies to smooth the way for privatization. |
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| The majority of people are poor and cannot afford to take part in the privatization process. |
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| Some local residents advocate pre-emptive privatization of degraded communal lands to protect these areas from municipal encroachment. |
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| By raising the cost of city contracts, these laws make privatization efforts less appealing and thus protect the cushy jobs of city workers. |
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| He supported a for-profit privatization plan by the Edison company that parents voted down overwhelmingly. |
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| Partial privatization is the most costly and intellectually dishonest fix of all. |
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| All studies on privatization always conclude that mere privatization is not enough. |
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| This could eventually result in the privatization and concession of the respective sectors. |
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| Quite apart from whether political influence peddling distorts criminal policy, does such peddling weaken the case for privatization? |
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| Having a privatization agency compels you, or those who run the institution, to privatize because that is their business. |
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| He also explores the circumstances in which the privatization of previously common property might be feasible and legitimate. |
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| All have enthusiastically pursued policies of privatization, flogging off public services to fat-cat entrepreneurs. |
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| Due to rising rates that accompany privatization, electricity has become similarly inaccessible for thousands of families. |
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| This privatization of communal resources can impeach the integrity of scientific research. |
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| The shopkeepers support faith-based reforms as one promising type of privatization. |
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| An even deeper problem than the perceived illegitimacy of privatization was its frequent irrelevance. |
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| Military privatization, like military penny-pinching, is part of a pattern. |
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| A champion of privatization, he's been holding closed-door meetings with moderate Democrats in the hopes of forging a compromise. |
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| He gave up the chairmanship before the privatization exercise was completed. |
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| Have the oligarchs stripped assets from the companies they acquired in privatization, rather than investing in them? |
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| Labor activists in Hong Kong say that disgruntled workers are striking to protest against the privatization of their companies. |
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| More privatization has been allowed, and people have begun to open stores and businesses. |
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| The rest of us were told to hush up with our petty concerns about foreign entanglements, airport privatization, and what have you. |
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| National union officers reported privatization increased the likelihood of redundancies and lower job security. |
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| Educators say they're worried that dropout factories are becoming vulnerable to privatization. |
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| The privatization of state-owned companies has become a matter of commonplace racketeering. |
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| In this case, large-scale privatization has created many opportunities for foreign ownership and joint ventures. |
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| Jeffersonian democracy is based on limited government, states' rights, local control, volunteerism and privatization. |
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| For reacquainting me with that pleasure, I want to thank everyone who pushed for deregulation, privatization and free trade in electricity. |
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| The experience with increasing exposure to competition and privatization is not limited to the transport sector. |
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| The 18-month privatization process relicensed 26 cellular lines, 27 fixed lines and one long-distance company. |
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| More important too is that privatization is also greatly effective in reducing rent-seeking activities of government officials. |
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| A major feature of the privatization process has been the accompanying divestment of regulation. |
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| Both local newspapers published lead editorials calling for the privatization of the system. |
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| Corporate backers of privatization are urging the Administration to get off the dime. |
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| Early attempts at privatization led to rioting in Osh in 1990, so this process was put on hold. |
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| Stand on a street corner with a clip board in hand soliciting signatures for the privatization of public loos. |
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| However, street protests made the government reverse its stance on the privatization of water services. |
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| A massive voucher privatization program turned more than 60 million people into shareholders of Russian businesses. |
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| But few Maasai benefited from the early privatization, nor did they keep their animals from grazing on the private ranches. |
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| There is no guarantee that financial liberalization will enhance economic efficiency, nor that privatization will guarantee competition. |
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| The Democrats refused to concede on the privatization scheme and the president backed down. |
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| It is seen as a back-door route to full-scale privatization and is a major municipal issue. |
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| The subsequent section deals with the impact of privatization on management accounting systems. |
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| The initial goal of the reformers was to achieve greater economic efficiency through the rapid privatization of all state-owned assets. |
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| There are many desiderata of a successful privatization process, not all of which are compatible. |
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| The logic of the market economy lies in competition, not just privatization. |
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| As part of the general transition to a market economy, privatization laws for land have been introduced. |
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| The profile of perspective of how human rights being violated through the process of privatization is also expected. |
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| We wouldn't want to do anything to thwart the Campbell government's quest for the privatization of health care. |
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| Years after privatization of telecoms in most advanced economies, an element could be returned to public ownership again. |
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| But privatization would certainly spawn side effects in finance and business circles. |
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| The essential issue here is the extent to which a desirable condition for privatization is economic deregulation. |
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| The problem for these proselytizers of privatization, however, is that the more people learn about the plan, the more they oppose it. |
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| The country's transition to capitalism has been uncertain, with the privatization of state-run enterprises proceeding slowly. |
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| Instead, privatizers like to play a shell game where they use gloomy assumptions for Social Security and rosy assumptions for privatization. |
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| This will be one of the economic miracles of the world, all based on privatization. |
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| The Bush privatization failure was devastating not only to his standing as president but as head of his own party. |
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| The economic role of the state was to be reduced through privatization, welcoming foreign investments, eliminating import quotas, and reducing tariffs. |
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| The beauty of privatization is that new forms of organization can be introduced into public education without making wholesale changes to public education itself. |
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| However, in the highlands, where there is little cultivated land, privatization may entail restitution, as families respect traditional ownership. |
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| Brazil's left-wingers blame the energy crisis on privatization. |
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| The relatively successful case of Poland, which stabilized the macroeconomy quickly but has been slow to carry out privatization, is an important example. |
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| The privatization of the tobacco monopoly brought about, in accordance with the theoretical predictions, a change in management accounting systems. |
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| Obviously, they weren't keeping up with his Fortune magazine opinion pieces supporting school vouchers, privatization of Social Security, and an end to inheritance taxes. |
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| His vision for moving Mexico forward includes privatization, liberalization, and political freedom. |
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| It's reflected in the privatization that's happening to the people in the townships in South Africa, and in what's going on in the streets of Toronto and Halifax. |
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| In other words, it lays the legal foundations for the privatization of the country's oil wealth and its transfer to US-based energy conglomerates. |
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| He has been mysteriously silent on the subject of privatization. |
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| Specifically, we examine the unadjusted and market-adjusted returns earned by shareholders of CANPRIVs during the five-year period following privatization. |
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| The first method of privatization allowed an SOE to become a joint-stock or limited liability corporation with shares being offered for sale to the public. |
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| They want to take control of New York City schools away from Mayor Bill de Blasio and let privatization run rampant. |
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| And who knows, maybe one of these Republicans, confronted with evidence of their privatization enthusiasm, will commit one. |
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| Ravitch, author of the new book Reign of Error, talks to Lauren Streib about how reform has become a cover for privatization. |
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| If Bush had managed to put a Social Security privatization bill before Congress, our numbers would be different. |
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| There actually was a kind of test vote on Social Security privatization in 2001 in the House, and 20 Democrats voted yea. |
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| The privatization process began in late 1992, after all citizens had become entitled to a voucher that could be exchanged for shares in the new private companies. |
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| The aim is to increase the share of cash privatization, curtail the privileges of management-employee buyouts and sell-offs for compensatory vouchers. |
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| However, the organization is squeezing Nicaragua to accept privatization. |
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| Modest initial growth was seriously undermined in 1994 by the 50 percent devaluation of the CFA franc, while privatization led to the retrenchment of 10,000 public workers. |
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| In reality, the government had the power under the Law to veto or overrule any attempt by the workforce to hamper the privatization process by withdrawing their consent. |
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| Speaking in Hokkien, he also presented 10 labor policies, including tightening foreign labor imports and making the privatization process more transparent. |
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| Should they be re-elected it will also help lock them into a good position, should they come out against privatization on the hustings this year or next. |
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| Cotton is one commodity for which privatization has occurred rapidly. |
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| In the global South, however, higher risk and lower rates of return mean that the water giants require massive public financing to make privatization work. |
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| The formula would be privatization plus deregulation equals efficiency. |
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| An economic policy memorandum recently presented to the Estonian government by the International Monetary Fund recommends the early privatization of 30 per cent of the port. |
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| Economists, who eagerly support the pseudo laissez fair policies, assert that the privatization of the public sector should be advanced via deregulation. |
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| The economic shocks that accompanied wholesale privatization were associated with sharp increases in mortality. |
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| Ongoing privatization of Japan Post relates to that of the national postal service and one of the largest banks in the world. |
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| The most important of these is Arun Shourie, the minister for disinvestments, as privatization is known in India. |
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| Defined in this book in a limited sense, privatization occurs when the state disinvests from water systems. |
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| Sharif is credited with partial privatization of banks in 1992-1996, and then complete denationalization of the banking sector. |
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| The privatization largely shifted control of enterprises from state agencies to individuals with inside connections in the government. |
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| The process will take place in accordance with the law on denationalization and privatization of state property. |
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| Chinese policies have been incremental and fragmented in terms of social insurance, privatization, and targeting. |
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| The privatization of prisons and prison services which began in the 1980s has been a subject of debate. |
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| Beginning in the 1990s, the central government of Brazil launched a privatization program inspired by the Washington Consensus. |
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| In Japan, Japan Post was reorganized into Japan Post Group in 2007 as a material step of the postal privatization. |
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| By contrast, the Ming dynasty in China began once more to practice privatization, especially with regards to their manufacturing industries. |
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| Examples of Crown corporations include the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Air Canada before the latter underwent privatization. |
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| The opposites of nationalization are privatization, municipalization and demutualization. |
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| Perhaps one of the first ideological movements towards privatization came during China's golden age of the Han Dynasty. |
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| The history of privatization dates from Ancient Greece, when governments contracted out almost everything to the private sector. |
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| The Canadian system is the one most often used as a model by proponents of privatization. |
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| In economic theory, privatization has been studied in the field of contract theory. |
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| Through privatization by direct asset sale or stock market, bidders compete to offer higher prices, generating more revenue for the state. |
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| Additionally, privatization from below had made important contribution to economic growth in transition economies. |
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| As for natural monopolies, opponents of privatization claim that they aren't subject to fair competition, and better administrated by the state. |
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| Arguments for and against the controversial subject of privatization are presented here. |
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| Those with political connections unfairly gained large wealth, which has discredited privatization in these regions. |
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| Suddenly, the privatization of the welfare state looks more like the bureaucratization of charity. |
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| The privatizers don't argue that privatization is good for foreign investors and their Canadian minions. |
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| The privatization received very mixed views from the public and the parliament. |
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| Large privatization of the Soviet economy occurred over the next few years as the country dissolved. |
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| In 1988, the perestroika policy of Mikhail Gorbachev started allowing privatization of centrally planned economy. |
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| Egypt undertook widespread privatization under Hosni Mubarak. |
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| Therefore, IETA's closed market approach is not only antiquated in this era of privatization and free markets but it jumps the gun on the international negotiations, as well. |
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| The Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes has launched the partial privatization of the Pacific-North airport cluster anchored by the air terminal in Guadalajara. |
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| Opponents of those privatization plans hoped to use Mr. Armstrong's qualms as ammunition to block the White House initiatives, and they asked for more public statements. |
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| Voucher privatization occurred mainly in the transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe, such as Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. |
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| Both proponents and opponents of privatization recognize that stable funding is one of the major factors for successful upgrades of ATC infrastructure. |
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| Sweden has recently been relatively quick to adopt neoliberal policies, such as privatization, financialization and deregulation, compared to countries such as France. |
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| A market with high liquidity can facilitate the privatization. |
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| Between 1991 and 1999, as part of one of the world's largest privatization programs, water and sanitation concessions with the private sector were signed. |
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| Yet, some empirical literature suggests that privatization could also have very modest effects on efficiency and quite regressive distributive impact. |
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| He provided a list of the biggest and best performing Macedonian companies on which the entire economy rests and whose privatization should be revised. |
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| He declared the election to be a referendum on postal privatization. |
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| But in recent years government motivates privatization in education. |
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| The sale was one of the largest privatization deals made in Turkey, though past rounds of bidding for the gas giant were scrapped over payment disputes and fickle bidders. |
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| World Bank loan conditionalities are attached to a wide range of loans and largely center on the liberalization of trade, deregulation and privatization. |
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| Convinced of the need to convert to a free-market economy, the CIS has opened its arms to foreign investment and embarked on an ambitious, radical privatization program. |
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| However, it was in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom and Ronald Reagan in the United States that privatization gained worldwide momentum. |
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| Russia made good progress on privatization in 1993 despite active opposition from key cabinet members, hard-line legislators, and antireform regional leaders. |
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| Voucher privatization, on the other hand, could represent a genuine transfer of assets to the general population, creating a sense of participation and inclusion. |
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| Placement of RZD's controlling stake of TransContainer in an improbable state JV with the Kazakhs and Byelorussians seems intended to stave off privatization. |
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