Namibia has a state owned Press Agency, called NAMPA.

The market share of state owned banks is 85 .

There is little to resuscitate among the state owned enterprises.

State owned land is valued at more than 7 trillion.

State owned enterprises have acted as incubators for technical skills and managerial talent.

Instead, the Kremlin is preoccupied with the profitability and value of the state dominated companies that it controls.

Latin America sharply reduced its trade barriers and privatized its state owned firms.

Everything beyond private space was state territory.

Finally, the state competes with the private sector via state owned enterprises and utilities.

Local governments and state owned enterprises do not necessarily have those concerns.

Credit to state firms and to households continues to grow rapidly.

As part of the liberalization sequence itself, State owned banks were sold to the private sector, both domestic and foreign.

By returning most state owned industries to private ownership, the Thatcher revolution killed off state socialism.

Combined, these state owned assets total almost three quarters of China s national productive wealth.

Despite privatization, there are roughly 119,000 state owned enterprises today, with a book value of about 4 trillion. State owned land is valued at more than 7 trillion.

The big three state owned banks have vast branch networks and employ hundreds of thousands of people.

This is true even if the economic expansion is led by state owned companies and by Russian sovereign wealth funds.

Powerful political families run many Chinese state owned enterprises.

Iraq s state owned enterprises were the cornerstone of Saddam Hussein s economic policy.

Now the Chinese government has forbidden state owned zoos from taking part in such cruelty.

But financial repression s winners commercial banks and SOEs will face new challenges.

Moreover, state owned enterprises will be required to pay out a larger portion of their earnings as dividends.

State owned enterprises, or their subsidiaries, dominate key markets, as in interwar Italy.

The desperation of local potentates and SOE executives has created powerful resistance to reform.

Under the command economy system, every state owned enterprise was required to have a party committee.

Our farmers are dedicated and disciplined, committed to quality, says Ali Batour, a manager with Cameroon s Sodecoton, the state owned marketer.

While local governments have been unable to borrow, locally controlled state investment companies can.

The state owned oil (Pemex) and electric power (Federal Electricity Commission) companies face no competition.

Entry barriers, particularly in service industries dominated by state owned oligopolies, need to be lowered.

Elements of the investment portfolio in the public sector and the SOEs are beginning to fail this test.

Politicians gained influence and popular support by directing state owned banks to make loans to favored constituencies.

The employees of the state owned enterprises still receive paychecks, even though about a third of their workplaces have been destroyed.

A typical sight was a holiday campground with small bungalows managed by one of the state owned companies.

Unlike other state owned universities in Sweden, it is funded through the budget for the Ministry for Rural Affairs.

Finally, after major reforms of state owned enterprises (SOEs) and the tax system, China acceded to the World Trade Organization in 2001.

But there is no systematic evidence that China s SOEs are driven by more than normal commercial considerations.

State broadcaster CCTV will launch a worldwide program to explain the Chinese position on international affairs.

Removing officials from state owned companies boards has been an important aim for Medvedev for several years.

The republic boasts a flourishing consumer production sector and has privatized most state owned heavy industries through the voucher privatization system.

In addition, while the state owned companies Telecom, Autostrade, and Alitalia were subject to an extremely interventionist policy by Romano Prodi s outgoing government, they have little to show for it. Plans to build a high speed train connecting Italy with northern Europe continue to experience delays.

The SOEs compete in product and labor markets with the private sector, but less so in capital markets.

First, ownership rights to the remaining state assets should be distributed equally to China s 1.3 billion citizens.

The government continues to own more than 50 of remaining state owned enterprises, but does not need or use the income.

Indeed, many employees of state owned enterprises show little interest in returning to work.

State owned and private multinational companies drill fuel in Russia and sell it to Europe and North America.