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The privatisation of profit and socialisation of loss.

So we decided to privatize many of our enterprises.

While the proceedings were still pending, ENTEL was privatized.

This might be called the privatization of war.

After the period of economic transition during the 1990s, most enterprises were again privatised.

In 1995, the company was privatized and it is currently owned by Israel Chemicals.

Some general trends in the process of privatization of land at the regional level can be identified.

In fact, official documents have now even started questioning the legitimacy of the privatization of the leading Russian companies in the 1990 s, which has opened the way for discussions about revising the outcomes of these privatizations.

Privatisation of state assets has done much for the economy, but has also been used for patronage and empire building.

As opportunities appeared, we began to re privatize assets, and within a few years Securum was closed.

Large systems are privatized without social welfare programmes for labour laid off.

After all, how can the US or the Western multilateral institutions advocate bank privatization now?

Local governments could then privatize the massive assets that they have accumulated during years of rapid growth, using the proceeds to pay down their debt.

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

One of the major trends in globalization is the privatization of property through titling and registration programmes and accompanying legislation.

With the privatization of Germany s railway, which will shortly be concluded with its listing on the stock market, these civil servants will disappear.

Small countries such as Iceland decided to get in on the action by privatizing their banks and setting up their own financial centers. If you cannot be Silicon Valley, then why not create a mini Wall Street?

For England and Wales, a regulatory agency for water (OFWAT) was created as part of the privatization of the water industry in 1989.

The privatization of key economic sectors had been initiated and had led to the attraction of considerable FDI in several sectors.

These problems are not America s alone, for they are inherent to all efforts to privatize social welfare.

In June 2003, several thousand students took to the streets of Tehran in anti government protests sparked by government plans to privatise some universities.

As Ukraine so clearly shows, the process of self liberation from communism was, by definition, associated with a gigantic privatization.

Given the diversity of conflicts and State structures in the region, the privatization of war machinery in the Asian Pacific Region had several distinct manifestations

And even personalization is something that we're starting to see the beginnings of, whether it's via the personalized trajectory through the curriculum or some of the personalized feedback that we've shown you.

In Japan, the Koizumi government wants to privatize the behemoth postal service, whose giant financial arm is wrapped like a python around the country s banking system.

Sweden is a world leader in privatised pensions and pension funding problems are relatively small compared to many other Western European countries.

Air Malawi frequently had financial difficulties, and the Malawian government attempted to privatise the airline on two occasions without success.

This means that women participate marginally in the privatization of the state capital, and the analysis of gender mainstreaming will be particularly interesting in the completed privatization.

The failure of police forces to cope with crime, for example, had led to the privatization of security and the proliferation of security companies, a trend which thrived on insecurity and fear.

First, everywhere there is a sense of disgust at the way the recent boom seemed to privatize gains while the subsequent bust socialized losses.

Further, young people are worried about the structural adjustment programmes that have an adverse effect on their lives, including the privatization of water provisions and education.

That may require innovative approaches, quite different from intellectual property regimes based on privatization and monopolization of knowledge, with the high prices and restricted benefits that follow.

The rising costs of education, its privatization and the existing disparity in quality between public and private systems are a concern for many young people.

The Bank also pushed for privatization of national health systems, water utilities, and road and power networks, and grossly underfinanced these critical sectors.

America and the world should remember Argentina s privatization of its pension system was at the center of its recent fiscal woes.

Lastly, there was a need to closely monitor the privatization of health services, including the increasing number of Caesarean sections carried out by private clinics.

And, with Austrian money and World Bank support, officials are drawing up a privatization program that will cover a significant proportion of the country s mainly state owned industry.

India has opened up its economy to world trade and started to privatize many of its state owned industries (albeit often too slowly).

He will have to praise privatization of Social Security and argue that individuals will make prudent and wise investment decisions with this baseline tranche of their potential retirement resources.

In this way, decisions about whether to privatize services which affect basic human rights, like water, education, health will be made with the voice and vote of those most affected by the results of those decisions.

Then came Georgia s Rose Revolution. Many state owned firms were privatized for ten times the sums yielded in asset sales under the previous government of Edvard Shevardnadze.

Babalobi wrote on eWash Accompanied by unarmed policemen, protesters marched through the streets of central Marseille singing, dancing and chanting slogans against privatisation and commodification of urban water supply.