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Reform-minded officials may take this as a green light to carry on quietly privatising other state-run enterprises, albeit slowly.

Allowing competition while neither privatising nor killing off the original state incumbents means big losses at some dying public firms.

In recent years a few Chinese scholars have suggested that privatising rural land would make such land grabs far harder.

As soon as it has managed that, the Treasury should devise plans for splitting up and privatising the GSEs.

Hayek's views became more respectable, informing the liberalising, privatising governments of Margaret Thatcher.

Privatising these assets would unleash the wealth effect and boost domestic consumption.

This is a form of "privatising" access to universities, says UCU spokesman Dan Ashley.

"No politician in France ever suggests privatising SNCF, " he replied.

On October 1st the ten-year process of privatising the postal system begins, with huge financial implications.

But where a government has failed there may be a case for privatising park services such as accounting, tourism and even security.

Now they are lining their cronies' pockets by "privatising" state assets.

Mr Medvedev's supporters say that if he carries on he will foster economic modernisation, for example by privatising more than Mr Putin.