privatisation

Some economists would like to see mass privatisation to shift wealth out of the dominant and domineering state sector.

"Henceforth, the European Union will escort Greece's privatisation programme as if we were conducting it ourselves, " he said.

"A large chunk of the multibillion financial black hole facing TfL is a direct result of the failure of tube privatisation, " he said.

Yet the transition towards eventual privatisation must be carefully handled if it is not to provoke new injustices and social upheaval.

Even if it buys no more shares, the state will increase its economic stake in the company, a sort of partial de-privatisation.

Funds for infrastructure investment have been blocked by political opposition to privatisation, with which Mrs Gandhi has sometimes sided.

One option would be to turn the commitment to raise funds through privatisation into a broader opening of the Greek economy.

The privatisation represents a step towards the British model, in which private firms run trains on a state-owned network.

The annual return for the British government from the earlier point at which it began to prepare for privatisation was 14 per cent.

In return for more outside help, Greece's government has agreed to more fiscal austerity and yet bolder reforms, including privatisation.

This has accelerated over the last decade, and is a result of the massive privatisation of publicly owned housing.

Between the end of the strike and privatisation, pit closures continued with a particularly intense group of closures in the early 1990s.

PRIVATISATION was to be the hallmark of the administration of Lee Myung-bak, who became South Korea's president in February.

This de facto privatisation has led to an explosion in personal wealth and was instrumental in the creation of an urban middle class.

She also rattled some oligarchs by reversing the dodgy privatisation of a vast steel factory and reselling it for six times as much.

The structural changes required for a positive future were: privatisation, consolidation and a mechanism for price risk hedging.

That has not stopped Republican lawmakers from pushing for a break-up and eventual privatisation of the companies.

Flowers bid for the Rock two years ago, prior to its privatisation by former chancellor Alistair Darling.

Britain's national network has never been profitable, and in the years since privatisation costs have exploded.

Most other countries thought this would only complicate matters, particularly if it meant tying up Greek assets due for privatisation.

Most other countries thought this would only complicate matters, particularly if it means tying up Greek assets due for privatisation.

It has also committed itself to profound structural reforms to strengthen growth and competitiveness, as well as extensive privatisation.

He has meddled with good policies and failed to stop bad ones, such as the attempt to roll back the privatisation of the postal system.

Facing down such opposition would make full-throttle privatisation even more potent as a way of bolstering confidence.

Privatisation in Russia degenerated into a morally dubious grab for assets by a new class of oligarchs.

But the only species that is now close to extinction in developed countries is the state-owned bank, as privatisation has swept the world.

There he was in charge of privatisation and managing the public debt, which had exploded in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Her government emphasised monetary control, deregulation, particularly of the financial sector, flexible labour markets, and privatisation.

With the collapse and privatisation of state-owned enterprises, the vast majority of citizens had been left with no insurance.

"But this is a very vague and confusing area, as Chinas privatisation has been fraught with irregularities, " he said.

John McCain, a Republican senator and another candidate for president, supports the idea, which he calls the "privatisation" of sanctions.

Part-privatisation and competition created in a short time what decades of industrial policy had failed to do.

For the departing generals, privatisation looks to be a retirement plan of sorts.

Cho Yoon-sun, a GNP spokeswoman, says Wall Street's meltdown should give the president pause in his privatisation plans.

The new airport was structured as an independent entity that could be listed, but any talk of privatisation has disappeared.

Many firms, including state companies up for privatisation, are only now starting to keep proper, audited accounts.

Mr Ryan refuses to call this a voucher plan, let alone a form of privatisation.

Greater privatisation of Chicago's waste collection has been on the agenda for a while.

Not so long ago, government-controlled companies were regarded as half-formed creatures destined for full privatisation.

Personally, in an ideal world, I would favour the first set of ideas, namely full privatisation.

South Korea's public-sector unions are likely to be bitter opponents of Mr Lee's privatisation programme.

Privatisation: The sale of state-owned companies to the private sector, normally through a stock market listing.

Autostrade argues that the clause of the privatisation law banning construction companies as shareholders has expired.

At some point partial nationalisation of finance must also be replaced by privatisation and better regulation.

When Thatcherites first mooted privatisation it was derided as an impractical dream.

A spokesman for INTO says its arrangements are "not privatisation but a joint venture with it and the university as equal partners" .

The last time they governed the country their changes were the privatisation of telecoms, electricity, gas and water.

Because of the war, they decided to increasingly privatisation dry last ticket.

Such conflicts of interest influence the success or failure of a privatisation.

At Apapa, containers wait 21 days to leave the terminal, down from 30 before privatisation, Mr Ross said.

Under the scheme now likely to be agreed, any shortfall in privatisation receipts would therefore open a finance gap.

Ideological opposition from the left was also blamed for halting India's potentially large privatisation programme.

But even if privatisation is not on the agenda in France, that does not mean greater commercialisation has been ruled out.

Yet gaizhi is not simply a euphemism for "privatisation" ; it has also created a variety of public-private hybrids.

Privatisation proceeds will not reach the expected amount in a recession-prone economy today.

Mass privatisation broke the planners' grip but failed to create the hoped-for shareholder democracy.

Sweeping privatisation of housing since the late 1990s has radically changed the social and political fabric of urban China.

Privatisation is the best way to ensure that the public does not, instead, end up serving the post office.

It could also give a boost to the big privatisation programme that the government is planning, to help cut its crippling debt burden.

Bush's plan for partial privatisation of Social Security, the US public pension system, a few years back.

The big five were financial deregulation, tariff reform, privatisation, tax reform and workplace relations reform.

Opponents of privatisation say that state ownership is essential to protecting postal services.

The regime is busily dividing up state assets through a phoney "privatisation" scheme.

the privatisation of state-controlled firms that have flourished since privatization.

today , it is in the opposite direction : the themes are liberalisation , privatisation and deregulation.

"The privatisation of Chinese firms is the greatest transformation of ownership in history. "

Privatisation of the postal service is an even bigger issue, and one where Mr Kamei has lots of form.

With tax revenue down and privatisation plans stalled, the fiscal deficit has soared.

The future of the Royal Mail, slated for possible privatisation, will also be high on his agenda.

Viktor Orban, the party's leader, opposes further privatisation and has promised to review some recent deals once in office.

Privatisation was promoted as the answer to the problems of the developing world.

The Coalition has gone further with tax reform, privatisation and workplace reform making our economy more flexible and competitive.

Mr Draghi led Italy's privatisation programme and fostered a market for longer-dated government bonds, which helped reduce borrowing costs.

He would accelerate the privatisation programme, selling off controlling stakes in some of the most important state-owned companies.

But critics say that the scheme amounts to privatisation of natural resources.

Britain's current airport debacle is the predictable and predicted outcome of ill-conceived airport privatisation.

Even before privatisation, its private-sector rivals have been bracing for trouble.

One such would be maintaining the government's support for Mr Kamei's ill-conceived reversal of the postal privatisation.

Greece was told, bluntly and publicly, immediately to embark on a radical programme of privatisation.

Court rulings overturning long-concluded land sales or privatisation deals have spooked local investors.

Even the railways, which are down for privatisation, may well be sold with guarantees protecting jobs and services.

Privatisation and the breaking up of statutory monopolies has reduced rent-seeking by organised groups of public employees.

Privatisation is a particularly sore point with international creditors.

Neither move amounts to outright privatisation, but both will reduce the scope of the state.

It is the highest price fetched by an ex- Soviet state in a single privatisation.

After privatisation, a former state-owned company decided it was time to shake off sloppy public sector dress habits.

In return he promises even more belt-tightening, structural reform and the breakneck privatisation of state-owned firms and land.

No British government could have allowed an individual to become so rich from a single privatisation.

Bold privatisation would go some way, but in the long run what is needed is faster GDP growth.

And it wants a programme of liberalisation and privatisation to promote competition, increase productivity and cut consumer-price inflation.

And it wants a programme of liberalisation and privatisation to promote competition, increase productivity and cut consumer-price inflation.

It follows a conventional privatisation model. Its pricing scheme seems transparent.

Typically that involves either privatisation or putting the resource in government hands.

NDP MPs will need to start saving their breath if they hope to stave off privatisation with a filibuster.

It proposes a "re-privatisation board" to reverse the state's crisis-driven entanglement in banks and business.

Japan, by contrast, has a minister for the privatisation of the postal services.

Privatisation income contributed to the amelioration of the government budget for the considered period.

Citic International shares were suspended on the 3 June pending a detailed announcement of the privatisation plan.

One-quarter of the nation's household assets sit in the postal system, which has been beset by on-off privatisation plans.

Yes, privatisation has created short-term disappointments in eastern Europe.

Nor is privatisation necessarily the answer to indebted countries' problems.

In the 1990s privatisation seemed to have settled that argument.

Two decades after the UK pioneered the privatisation of state-owned enterprises, it is allowing companies to fall into government hands.

SOE reform is not about profits, and certainly not about privatisation.

Despite 20 years of privatisation, the government has kept big stakes in many industries.

They introduced a broad era of privatisation, deregulation and belief in free enterprise.

It is true that public policy helped to create Brazil's industrial base. But privatisation and openness whipped this into shape.

"What Makes Privatisation Work? Evidence from a Large-Scale Nationwide Survey of Chinese Firms" .

it as the "thin edge of the wedge of privatisation" .

Policy changes like flat taxes, currency reform and privatisation came slower than in the other two Baltic states.

But the government's partial privatisation of two of France' s largest utilities was not without controversy.

It disbanded the corrupt, 15, 000-strong traffic police overnight, and began an extensive programme of privatisation.

Greece will benefit far more from a well-designed privatisation scheme than a fire-sale to raise cash.

Indeed, for much of the Chinese industry's short post-privatisation history it has been just that.

Now, amid talk of a privatisation, a French bidder is seen as a front-runner to buy the port itself.

Mr Pan says the government is too weak to push through privatisation in the face of union demands for job security and stable salaries.

In early August 2005 the then-prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, called a snap election to push through postal privatisation.

The strikes were called over concerns about the part-privatisation of national airport operator Aena.

Given that industrial capacity is already too high, privatisation is the answer.

The biggest genuine Koizumi reform was postal privatisation.

No need for genuine pluralism or large-scale privatisation of state-owned companies.

Arabs will have an easier time than ex-Soviets did in supporting privatisation and decentralisation.

In all, foreign banks spent about $9bn accumulating stakes during the privatisation of China's big three lenders three years ago.

Privatisation is also politically attractive, potentially raising funds for electoral give-aways.

Ms Tymoshenko's threats to reopen privatisation deals and her price caps on fuel and other commodities damaged the economy.

Privatisation has made some of them more efficient.

Europe's open skies led to more privatisation of state airlines and the emergence of new, low-cost carriers such as easyJet and Ryanair.

Scrapping it would anger a small coalition partner of the DPJ that is passionately opposed to privatisation.

Even in Britain, home of privatisation, the government has abandoned its plan to bring in a private minority shareholder for the Royal Mail.

But the Congress-led coalition that took power in 2004 and won re-election this year has shown no great enthusiasm for privatisation.

A bungled privatisation has messed up commercial farming.

It will be the country's largest privatisation programme since the 1990s.

Yet opponents of privatisation care most about the post offices themselves.

Working time cut at Air France against backdrop of privatisation.

Her period as prime minister in 2005 was marked by talk of reviewing privatisation deals and capping fuel prices.

But privatisation and openness whipped this into shape.

Many will go as part of a big promised privatisation programme.

And they point to opinion polls showing that many Greeks favour privatisation, despite the cries that the country is being sold out.

"Nobody listened, then everybody did, " Norman wrote ruefully in a 1991 article called "A future history of privatisation, 1992-2022" .

A man for private place, privatisation, from individual be fond of, aesthetic, value shutdown living conditions such as into consideration.

But reforms since then have not included privatisation.

The case for privatisation will get a boost if he can keep the lights on at home.

The letter also asks for measures "over and above" the privatisation plan.

But it is the politics of privatisation that investors fear most.

The privatisation of large sections of China's housing market since the late 1990s has contributed to the development of Chinese consumers.

It's undemocratic: We never voted for privatisation, and polls have shown between 84~95% opposition to the sell-off plan!

The government plans to finance the budget deficit largely through privatisation and state borrowing.

The IEA, set up by Antony Fisher in 1955, promoted deregulation, privatisation, tax cuts, trade-union reform and the free market.

Even if India doesn't have the stomach for full privatisation, it is letting in the private sector in other, more subtle ways.

The passage of more than 40 privatisation bills through South Korea's parliament will be rocky.

In effect, mass privatisation was mass murder.

Privatisation meant a field day for robber barons.

When should re-privatisation of banks take place?

Privatisation remains a dirty word.

Telecoms privatisation has reduced phone prices by 99%.

That could include bold new concessions from the Greeks, such as pledging privatisation proceeds as collateral for new rescue funds.

Presumably this is for fear of them becoming government departments, and to keep them prepped for privatisation.

But as soon as Mr Kamei took office in September, he signalled a halt to privatisation.

BP made $1bn investing in the privatisation of China's oil and gas industry.

The start of privatisation has slipped from this year to next.

PCCW's shares fell 4 per cent before they were suspended to HK$3. 87, a 14 per cent discount to the privatisation offer.

For a brief moment, it looked as if the budget might open the way to privatisation and liberalisation.

For now, privatisation is wobbling along and some deals may be done.

The proposed partial privatisation encountered fierce opposition, not only from unions but also from left-wing MPs.

IS THIS privatisation through the back door?

This must be an important signal for authorities at the moment when the privatisation process is finished;

This week Britain, the birthplace of modern privatisation, nationalized much of its banking industry;

Encouraging the modernisation of the banking systems, including participation in the privatisation agenda;

Geoarge W. Bush began his second term with an over-ambitious campaign to sell partial Social Security privatisation to the country

Privatisation: an instrument for separating the state from society

Nor has the public sector's dominant position been dented by the government's spurious privatisation programme;

Increased and Final Offer Price of HK 1. 45 Irrevocable Undertakings Obtained to Vote in Favour of the Privatisation

no stimulation in this privatisation

Essay on Privatisation of Public housing

chanted slogans calling for an end to privatisation of government services and shouting their opposition to businessmen ruling Hong Kong