This leads to different figures on the magnitude of the social rental sector, ranging from about 30% in the Netherlands, to around 20% in France, United Kingdom and Sweden, only a few percent in Italy and Canada, and to zero in Germany (where another system for providing housing for lower incomes has been introduced after recent privatization) ([24], p. 242).
Three waves of administrative data were collected in 2000 (2 years before privatization), 2005 (3 years after privatization) and 2009 (7 years after privatization) for all health care providers in Haimen City, including 3 county hospitals, 6 central township health centers (CTHC) and 25 township-village health centers (TVHC).
There have been studies suggesting that health care accessibility became less equal as an effect of privatization [ 25- 27].
We note, however, that the median monthly water bill reported in Felton was $65, as compared to $35 in Ben Lomond, a difference resulting from the substantial increase of prices post privatization (Table 1).
An "antisummit" gathering of farmers, squatters, and the unemployed organized by the Landless People's Movement and the Anti-Privatization Forum held 32 km (20 mi) from the site of the official meetings focused on the need to provide land and jobs to the homeless and unemployed in South Africa as well as to needy people elsewhere.
In the matched sample, public hospitals converted to private non-profit status showed a significant increase in efficiency of 5.3% in the second year after privatization and 4.5% in the third year after privatization compared to the non-privatized hospitals.
Instead, these hospitals may be avoiding closure by reducing the quality of their services [ 15] (For public hospitals, there is a strategic alternative: privatization [ 18]).
Then there is the $1.2 billion privatization of 36,000 parking meters in Chicago.
They call for the privatization of 50 billion euros, or about $72 billion, in state assets, including ports, telecommunications concerns, real estate and stakes in the public power corporation.
Eager to cut government spending somewhere, Mr. Koizumi commissioned a group of senior civil servants to identify candidates for privatization among 153 prospects.
21, when it was revealed that Solid Energy, a state-owned mining company that had been on the list of candidates for partial privatization, was 389 million dollars in debt.
