In the coming days, friends and foes alike will go to great lengths to find kind words about his political career, but as a councillor, he was mostly a lonely voice against progress, and as mayor, his biggest accomplishments were getting garbage privatized on one side of the city, saving drivers $45 on vehicle registration and winning some concessions from the city's unions.
At the beginning of the transition process, many flocks were sold to pay collective farm debts in a context of high inflation, or sent to slaughter houses by unscrupulous chiefs or privatized on a patronage network basis (Jacquesson 2004).
Barely had the Socialists, for example, produced a proposal for a windfall profit tax on newly privatized companies and a one-time bonus for pensioners of about $165 than the government proposed to lower taxes and to increase the number of people eligible for pensions.
The institutional changes restructured and privatized SOEs based on a "grasp the large, release the small" strategy — retaining government control of large enterprises that operate in strategically important sectors and releasing small and medium-sized firms that are operating in unimportant sectors (Liu et al. 2006).
In my opinion, we have overcome the hurdle whereby everything should be privatized and based on market forces.
The wealthiest provinces receive most health care expenditure, and since 1999 there has been increasing emphasis on privatized health care which the poorer regions cannot afford [ 22].
Today, the space program is on its last legs, and privatized space travel is on the rise.
Employees of Banespa, a government-owned Brazilian bank due to be privatized next month, went on indefinite strike today, demanding a public vote on the sell-off as well as guarantees for themselves.
A growing body of research has focused on the transformation of state-owned enterprises as they are privatized, with particular focus on the role of organizational and national heritages that enhance or constrain the evolution of these firms within a market-based institutional environment.
HONG KONG — Richard Li, the chairman of the city's biggest phone company, abandoned his bid to privatize it on Thursday, a day after a Hong Kong blocked the plan.
Backers of Measure 14-55 argue that Nestlé, which hopes to pump 238m gallons of water a year from a natural spring in the town of Cascade Locks, is being invited to help itself to a precious natural resource in a time of drought, and privatize it on terms that benefit only the company.
