The government has worked to make the power system more efficient through a variety of privatization measures, handing broad responsibility to the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, created in 2008.
Mr. Najib said the government was considering privatization measures related to several other government-linked companies.
"I can't imagine having such a broad privatization program without cooperating with investment banks," Aleksander Grad, the Polish treasury minister, said in an interview.
ALEC is perhaps more widely known for promoting a broad privatization agenda, "stand-your-ground" gun laws, and anti-democratic voter registration laws, amongst others.
"I think that means for it to really have an impact, it has to be integrated into a broader struggle". The student occupiers have received more than a dozen letters of support from student unions and professors, from around the U.S. and overseas, who have been involved in their own protests against tuition and privatization measures.
But there have already been some small successes at the state level, with controversial privatization measures being scaled back after public scrutiny and objections.
Students have been keenly aware of the tuition hikes as well as the privatization measures at the public university systems in California.
The boom in private prisons in the past two decades was part of a broader privatization trend, fuelled by a belief in the superior efficiency of the private sector.
Federal real estate divestiture is another good proposal that could inform bolder and broader privatization.
Observers ascribed this to a broader privatization campaign and pointed to ideological motives; in 2010, North Carolina elected its first majority-Republican legislature in a hundred years.
This was marked by privatization, austerity measures, expansion of privately managed charter schools, high-stakes standardized testing, school closures, value-added teacher evaluations and attacks on teachers unions.
