How To Use Privatization In A Sentence
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Application of the word "privatization," however, is almost always a misuse of the English language, albeit one that has become so common that it falls automatically off the tongue and flows unchecked past the ear.
Ken Allen: Say 'Corporatization,' Not '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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Eastern Europe has become a testing ground for high-speed privatization.
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Their plan, they argue, would not have the inherent risks of the more radical privatization plans.
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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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Another benefit of privatization, which I thought that Brad DeLong endorsed, is that it might constrain the political tendency to promise a free lunch.
Social Security Arithmetic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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There is also a trend toward the semiprivatization of state flagship campus institutions (now being called "the public Ivies"), which may push fees yet higher.
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Releasing more bailout funds will require the International Monetary Fund and European institutions to vouchsafe that Greece has not fallen short of its privatization and austerity pledges and the IMF will have to maintain that Greece's mountainous debt burden is sustainable.
Move Buys Time for Greece, But Growing Debt Looms
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Of all the frightening specters looming above us in the brave new world of Bush II - and there are many to choose from - I think the scariest is the privatization of Social Security.
The scariest thing
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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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The 18-month privatization process relicensed 26 cellular lines, 27 fixed lines and one long-distance company.
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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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But it was in implementing privatization, against odds that could only be called insurmountable, that
The Commanding Heights
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There are many desiderata of a successful privatization process, not all of which are compatible.
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High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage, using their influence in local administrations.
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But privatization would certainly spawn side effects in finance and business circles.
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Is the trend towards privatization reversible?
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Eastern Europe has become a testing ground for high-speed privatization.
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The shopkeepers support faith-based reforms as one promising type of privatization.
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Privatization could become a political albatross for the ruling party.
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Privatization broke up the state winery system first through ill-fated management/worker buyouts and then through state auctions of the assets.
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The moratorium on public housing, the dismantling of rent control, and the privatization of utilities have caused the cost of living in Toronto to skyrocket over the last decade.
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He supported a for-profit privatization plan by the Edison company that parents voted down overwhelmingly.
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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 last few years have seen the privatization of many industries previously owned by the state.
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Then privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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And I think they're, as they say in Mexico, "simpatico," or like-minded on a lot of issues especially business and privatization issues.
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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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As part of the general transition to a market economy, privatization laws for land have been introduced.
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We have discussed privatization, but we would prefer not to go down that particular road.
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One way to make up for the loss in revenue from privatization as well as cover the existing revenue shortfall is dramatically but gradually to cut Social Security benefits.
Kotlikoff's Social Security Plan, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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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 upper end of the range of Poland's 2011 privatization revenue, about $11.4 billion is a "big number," said Piotr Kalisz , chief economist at Citi Handlowy in Warsaw.
Poland Steps up Push on Asset Sales
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Some commentators and businessmen have suggested that the successful privatization of the National Freight Corporation was a foregone conclusion.
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On March 27 urban and rural workers marched demanding agrarian reform and the suspension of a policy of privatizations.
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A major feature of the privatization process has been the accompanying divestment of regulation.
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I disagree with both of the comments - privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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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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Apart from speculative activity surrounding the price of voucher books, the pace of privatization was deliberately slowed down by the vested political interests of the nomenklatura.
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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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This privatization of communal resources can impeach the integrity of scientific research.
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Privatization can only mean less control is vested in public discourse and more is relegated to the demands of profit.
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Actual (real) Privatization costs would exceed $12b per year in brokerage fees alone.
The "Cost" of Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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And what that exemplifies is what we call the privatization of culture.
American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change & the 20th Century
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The petrochemical division of Pemex was seen as the crown jewel of the privatization frenzy.
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That will minimize costs (which will still be large) and reprivatization will allow the government to recoup some of the upside.
Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars
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Logically, advocates of land privatization base their illogical argument on the premise of a false proposition and go against rules of inference.
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On Aug. 10 the Chamber of Deputies approved a state reform bill on privatization.
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Scouring the United States for ideas, he ran across the word privatization in the work of the economic and social theorist Peter Drucker.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS
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The average increase in adjusted and unadjusted returns is higher for CANPRIVs than that for privatizations in other countries.
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Consequently, the current spate of privatization is correctly viewed as a sort of minor epicycle in a massive trend that has been moving rather steadily in the opposite direction.
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Privatization often has involved the corrupt transfer of assets into the private hands of former communist apparatchiks.
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Ownership is obviously central to the disposal of state property - privatization - in the move to a market economy.
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But it was in implementing privatization, against odds that could only be called insurmountable, that he was to truly hone his skills.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS
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Privatization could hold the key to upgrading the infrastructure.
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Randy has gotten full blown Orwellian newspeaked, he thinks privatization [subsidizing] is efficient yet wails against it because its nationalizing health care!!
Think Progress » Passing Health Reform Would Contribute To Obama’s Deficit Reduction Goals
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Privatization can only mean less control is vested in public discourse and more is relegated to the demands of profit.
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Why haven't we seen an ammendment suggested that would help pull us out of this crisis and help the notion of reprivatization that said, "If you are a too-big-to-fail institution, and you have to rely on government asset purchases, government debt guarantees, access to the Fed window for more than a 60 day period, etc., your board members and your executives will all be considered to be working under a supervisory action, immediately, replaced as soon as possible, and your board and senior officers will all be prohibited from working for a regulated financial institution for a period of five years.
Housing Doom
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Due to rising rates that accompany privatization, electricity has become similarly inaccessible for thousands of families.
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Eskom, or a conglomerate such as Transnet before privatization as well as manage the substantial job losses entailed in the process.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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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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There are sharp divisions within the party over the privatization of the railways.
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And I think, as I said earlier, we're not going to see any more no-strings bailouts, and we're hopefully a lot closer to the kind of recievership - and-reprivatization process that should have been done from the start.
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In the post-socialist world of marketization and privatization, women tend to be employed in the public sector where jobs come with social benefits, men in the new economy of the private sector which is far more lucrative.
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We should retire the word "privatization" in favor of its Big Brother, "corporatization.
Ken Allen: Say 'Corporatization,' Not '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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There are sharp divisions within the party over the privatization of the railways.
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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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Some local residents advocate pre-emptive privatization of degraded communal lands to protect these areas from municipal encroachment.
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This will be one of the economic miracles of the world, all based on privatization.
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It was not a typical privatization, since all shares were sold to employees - what we call an employee buyout.
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In any case the numbers negatively lustrated are very few and likely to decline as privatization of state industry reduces the number of jobs affected by the screening process.
Human Rights in Prague
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Privatization would be an untested leap of faith.
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For the record, I don't think giving financial corporations a huge windfall is the main motive for privatization; it's mostly an ideological thing.
More on Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Tancredo has supported the privatization of Social Security, and lamented that Supreme Court decisions like Roe v. Wade have "emasculated" us.
Michele Swenson: Tancredo Candidacy a Symptom of Degraded Politics, the Race to the Right and to the Bottom
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Thus was highway privatization stripped of its extremeness.
Thomas Frank: Toll Roads Are Paved With Bad Intentions
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But he had a passage in First as Tragedy, Then as Farce that I thought was highly relevant to this discussion, in which he talks about the threat of privatization (by capitalism) of three different “commons”: the commons of culture, the commons of external nature (i.e., the precipitation of ecological disaster) and most relevant for our discussion here, the commons of internal nature, which he defines as “the biogenetic inheritance of humanity”:
Half-Centaur, Half-Chimera: Humanism and Science Fiction | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
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RA: The resistance has two principal pillars - a social pillar for the revindication of the people's rights, in which the resistance accompanies people in their daily struggle, for agrarian reform, for just salaries, and opposition to the privatization of social services.
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He gave up the chairmanship before the privatization exercise was completed.
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With the institution of privatization programmes around the world in the 1980s and the end of the Cold War, the welfare state has been dismantled while the oligarchic state has emerged unscathed.
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At a time of large-scale privatization, one should be seeking to strengthen competition policy.
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The strike began eight months ago with the objective of preventing the privatization of health services.
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In the world after the crisis, how can we move toward reprivatization?
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Walsh details the struggle to resist neo-liberal agendas that promote privatization and debilitate communities in post-apartheid South Africa.
Donna Nevel: Participatory Action Research and Organizing for Justice
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The logic of the market economy lies in competition, not just privatization.
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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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National union officers reported privatization increased the likelihood of redundancies and lower job security.
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We have discussed privatization, but we would prefer not to go down that particular road.
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Romney campaign aides reject the term "privatization" to describe their approach.
Romney Proposes Voucher Option for Medicare Plan
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Ironically, however, one of the main purposes of their fiscal imbalance measure is to support privatization.
The $44 trillion shortfall, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Much of the foothills of Mount Cameroon are the property of the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), a parastatal agroindustrial institution in process of privatization.
Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
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Reading about the Tolyatti "business dispute," the pressure on the courts, and the purported role of the presidential administration reminded me of the scandalous interview that formerly Kremlin-connected fund manager Oleg Shvartsman gave to "Kommersant" in November 2007 in which he cast some light on the "voluntary-compulsory" measures that Putin insiders (he named especially First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin) in order to implement a "velvet reprivatization.
Robert Coalson: The Myth Of Putin's Popularity
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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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The Privatization Law was the driving force which influenced the form privatization would take in the 1990s.
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It's another glaring example of what I have called The Illusion of Free Markets and the paradox of "neoliberal penality": the purported liberalization of the economy here, the privatization of city services goes hand-in-hand with massive policing.
Outlawing dissent: Rahm Emanuel's new regime | Bernard Harcourt
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The Industry Ministry was scheduled for abolition, to be replaced by a State Committee directed towards drafting industrial strategy and privatization.
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Privatization seems to offer the best hope for the industry.
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However, street protests made the government reverse its stance on the privatization of water services.
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The government is running up against considerable opposition to its privatization plans.
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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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The partial privatization of the British national pension system began with legislation enacted in 1959 and implemented in 1961 adding a second-tier earnings-related pension called the
Perspectives on Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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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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The Argentine congress approved the repurchase plan only after removing a clause allowing for the airline's future reprivatization.
Airline Grab Gains Ground in Argentina
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Government has avoided the word privatization and instead has adopted a program of “disinvestment,” generally intending to sell off partial ownership but retain majority control.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS
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In particular, Feldstein trots out this "$15 trillion" number that he says is the NPV gain of privatization.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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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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More privatization has been allowed, and people have begun to open stores and businesses.
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The real question is whether privatization ameliorates the access problem, and as Fredrik Segerfeldt argues in Water for Sale, it often does, making it a success by maximin standards even if it imposes some costs on the better-off people who already had a spot at the faucet.
But… But… PROFIT! (fnord)
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Privatization is not always the gravy train that governments promise.
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Privatization without flotation on the stock market means either a management buy-out or sale by tender.
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The experience with increasing exposure to competition and privatization is not limited to the transport sector.
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You don't have to be a conspiracy nut to see how this story parallels real world concerns about medicalization of human behaviour, privacy, civil rights, and privatization of government services.
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What's more, privatization proponents ignore the fact that bear markets can last a long time.
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Benn goes on to say that the founders of the socialist tradition in England were the radical Christian dissenters of the English Revolution (the Levelers and Diggers) who resisted the privatization of communally owned village land.
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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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The current debate about privatization is likely to grow hotter in the coming weeks.
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Public - sector unions , not surprisingly, are adamantly opposed to most privatization.
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Frequent tollway user Alex Sidorowych, 56, of Lake Zurich, called tollway privatization a "bad idea.
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The latter move came in the wake of parliament's decision of Dec. 11 temporarily to suspend the privatization process.
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‘What is important to me is for the privatization process and the transition from one administration to another to proceed smoothly, maintaining at the same time the high quality and speed of denationalization,’ he said.
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Protests continue over the privatization of health care.
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It is now established that the privatization of British Rail has tripled the amount of public subsidy for railways.
“Say “no” to TransLink and Metro’s Hong Kong model for funding transit” « Stephen Rees's blog
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The prime minister outlined the privatization plans at a press conference.
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He has been mysteriously silent on the subject of privatization.
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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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But Mr. Gaspar said he believes that the austerity plan will lead to economic growth, by breeding what he calls a "structural transformation" of the economy—changes to labor market and judicial system rules, as well as an ambitious privatization effort.
Portugal Unveils Deep Cuts
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The National Strategy on Environment has been worked out as a response to the changed situation in the country - environment laws which are almost fully harmonized with EU legislation and the advanced privatization process.
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The majority of people are poor and cannot afford to take part in the privatization process.
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The government announced a massive privatization program and introduced a new national currency called the leuthe same name as the Romanian currency.
1993, May 7
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The current debate about privatization is likely to grow hotter in the coming weeks.
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It does not mean perishability of public ownership even though privatization has been a world trend.
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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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Mind you, it is the UK, where rail freight has greatly diminished and maybe Stephen can shed some light on that subject, certainly the privatization of British Rail was a disaster for the track and for rail borne freight.
Great debate over future commutes « Stephen Rees’s blog
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Capitalism, people, the problem is unbridled capitalism under which I lump privatization, consumerism, class warfare--indeed, we might say that Kid Nation and Blackwater emblematize the sorry state we've long since arrived at.
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For the journalistic mainstream, privatization - whether in Western India or Northern California - was beneficent.
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On his campaign website, well ... to cut back on the amount of redundance in this article, I will just tell you flat out there is nothing here on the privatization of Iraqi oil.
Printing: Should Americans Support a Candidate Who Allows or Ignores the Privatization of Iraqi Oil?
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Cotton is one commodity for which privatization has occurred rapidly.
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While his main theme is academic freedom, he is able to locate this central educational value at the intersection of several interlocking forces: privatization, casualization, corporatization, and globalization.
Bob Samuels: Will Tenure Survive? On Cary Nelson's No University Is an Island
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He has been mysteriously silent on the subject of privatization.
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If you are interested in fostering personal responsibility, privatization is a good way to do it.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Privatization measures have placed former state properties under the control of former state oligarchs.
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However, the organization is squeezing Nicaragua to accept privatization.
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Privatization" is a crowd-pleasing nostrum for public officials seeking to shed the budgetary cost of programs and services that they nevertheless know to be a public responsibility.
Essays/Opinions
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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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Mr. Cameron's big idea, the so-called Big Society, also has the potential to catch on around the world, much as another British invention, privatization, did during the 1980s and 1990s — but only if it turns from its current wooliness into something more concrete.
How Britain Can Lead the World
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Some have argued that the ministry opened the bid at a time when the legislature is in recess because the ministry didn't want lawmakers to step in and politicize the privatization process.
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Privatization and marketization, as we have seen, were key elements; so too was deregulation of the labour market.
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The privatization of state-owned companies has become a matter of commonplace racketeering.
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Benn goes on to say that the founders of the socialist tradition in England were the radical Christian dissenters of the English Revolution (the Levelers and Diggers) who resisted the privatization of communally owned village land.
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Brazil's left-wingers blame the energy crisis on privatization.
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The government is running up against considerable opposition to its privatization plans.
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The governing coalition agreed to the reprivatization of farmlands.
1990, Jan. 5
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Another synergetic relationship involving a proactive government partner is exampled by prison privatization in the US.
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Though the initial rebellion began with campesinos, unrest is spreading throughout Mexico because of planned and rumored privatizations of key industries like telecommunications and energy.
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Could this really be a psychologized privatization-corporate welfare scheme that we have dreamed up, rather than a real one?
Bill Ayers on Arne Duncan: "the smart choice, the unity choice"
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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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An early example of privatization was the enclosure of public land for private use by wealthy landlords.
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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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Jeffrey A. Miron and Kevin M. Murphy write, privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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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 privatization of coal mines in Great Britain took more than 10 years of preparation - and that was in a market economy.
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The biggest number that doesn't work in my estimation is that $47 million in annual loss to the commonwealth's treasury under the current proposal, and this is despite assurances we have had for over a year that ABC privatization would be revenue-neutral, '' Brink said.
McDonnell vows trims to make up for money lost by privatizing liquor monopoly
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I think you misrepresent their statement when you quote them as saying privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The Government has also established new regulatory bodies to smooth the way for privatization.
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At issue was an ultimatum issued for a crackdown on the privatization of health care.
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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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The Deutsche Bank delegation familiarized him with the details of the bank's experience in Bulgaria so far, and expressed their satisfaction with the cabinet's plans for quick and transparent privatization.
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Is the trend towards privatization reversible?
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The prime minister outlined the privatization plans at a press conference.
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An early example of privatization was the enclosure of public land for private use by wealthy landlords.
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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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Just six months after the Orange Revolution brought a pro-democracy team to power in 2005, moderate, avidly pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed Mrs. Tymoshenko from the post of prime minister, in part because she was pushing for wide-scale reprivatization of assets of Ukraine's wealthy businessmen she believed were bought at sharp discounts through political connections.
Ukraine's Chief Picks Big Targets
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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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This could eventually result in the privatization and concession of the respective sectors.
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The mayor's efforts hit heavy political opposition, and a judge blocked any privatizations.
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The IMF will loan you money to cover your ever burdening interest payments but they attach a provision that if you default, you will have to give them your assets in what they call privatization foreclosure.
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His union was implacably opposed to the privatization of the company.
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Do people who buy privatization stock see themselves as establishing a stake in the economy?
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Partial privatization is the most costly and intellectually dishonest fix of all.
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Both local newspapers published lead editorials calling for the privatization of the system.
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The programme of privatization involved the sale of the national airline, telecommunications company and shipping line to local and foreign investors.
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Privatization, in both developed and developing countries, is producing mixed results whose long-term implications are not yet clear.
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It was not a typical privatization, since all shares were sold to employees - what we call an employee buyout.
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The current wave of privatization is just throwing more gasoline on the fire.
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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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Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and subcommittee Chairman John Tierney asked Weightman to testify about an internal memo that showed privatization of services at Walter Reed could put “patient care services
at risk of mission failure.”
Healthcare, Private and Public
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An even deeper problem than the perceived illegitimacy of privatization was its frequent irrelevance.
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The formula would be privatization plus deregulation equals efficiency.
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In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years.
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Drucker, credited with inventing the word privatization, now foresees a coming backlash of “bitterness and contempt” against the rich in the United States.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS
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The fifth would-be author, former privatization chief Alfred Kokh, had quit over a similarly dubious book deal three months ago.
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In September 1989 a draft law was presented which aimed to facilitate a large-scale privatization programme over the next five years.
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An even deeper problem than the perceived illegitimacy of privatization was its frequent irrelevance.
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We have discussed privatization(sentence dictionary), but we would prefer not to go down that road.
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Privatization is thought to be beneficial in that it promotes competition.
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He also said he would continue aggressively with the privatizations begun by the last government.
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A massive voucher privatization program turned more than 60 million people into shareholders of Russian businesses.
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The success in political terms through, for example, wider share ownership and the fairly immediate benefits for taxpayers overall by virtue of progressively lower tax rates, accrue from the fact of privatization.
Managing Change, Corporate Revival and Privatization in the British Public Sector
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Democrats had already planned to make the Ryan Medicare plan, which they call privatization, a centerpiece of their efforts to unseat Republicans in Congress.
Romney Proposes Voucher Option for Medicare Plan
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It is too early to make a full assessment of the impact of such privatization on industrial efficiency.
