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Italy's government has been trying to privatise the struggling state airline for more than two years.

Now foreign companies are ostensibly welcome to participate as the state begins to cautiously privatise parts of its rail assets.

Chinese policymakers have nightmares about what would happen if they were to abolish the hukou system and privatise land in the countryside.

To protect themselves from rampant crime and racketeering, the oligarchs tried to privatise parts of the KGB.

And plans by some European governments to privatise infrastructure assets may also be enticing.

The conservative-led regional government might like to privatise some state enterprises, including Madrid's two public television channels.

Back in 1999, thanks to the prodding of Zhu Rongii, the prime minister, Chinese cities were just starting to privatise the housing stock.

Privatise Medicare, the much-loved, and highly-subsidised government health-insurance scheme for the elderly?

He has created a new government agency to privatise six generating companies and 11 distributors by the end of the year.

So even granted the will-power to stabilise the economy, privatise state property and liberalise markets, would it work?

Daley's city has become an exemplar of a new strategy: where appropriate, privatise.

Lionel Jospin, a Socialist prime minister, managed to privatise a swathe of French companies without once using the term.

With the world awash in unwanted bank assets, it could take years for the governments to privatise their banks.

When the government first flagged its intention to privatise the company, its stake was worth more than A$30bn.

A better reason to privatise a company is to invite others to run it more efficiently.

But this is not 1996. Spain has fewer public companies to privatise and cannot count so much on European Union money.

"There is no agenda to privatise. We're not secretly planning to dismantle it. "

The easiest way to improve state oil firms' performance would be to privatise them.

It is just too risky to privatise an entity that will not face competition.

They demurred, leading Mr Emanuel to privatise a handful of services, resulting in as many as625 lay-offs.

In December 1978, 18 households in Xiaogang village made a secret decision to privatise their rural output.

He did this with public money, but also some unorthodox policies: he even tried to privatise the municipal savings bank.

Bills were introduced to curb union militancy, privatise state industries and allow council home owners to buy their houses.

Mr Ryan's plan would raise no taxes and, in effect, privatise Medicare.

It is to privatise more of California's prisons.

He has also promised to privatise state-owned banks and other businesses.

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Give two reasons why the government might privatise a nationalised industry. (2 marks)