Many of the health workers interviewed, both in the public and in the church-run sectors, had work experience from health facilities with a different type of ownership and were thus in a position to make comparisons based on their own experiences.
The state-run sector of the economy was enlarged in Latvia and Lithuania.
Taiwan, another east Asian "miracle" economy, also has a very large state-run sector, accounting for 16% of national output.
Both men were associated with privatization and other market reforms, while the military is a major player in the state-run sector of the Egyptian economy.
The measures approved on Wednesday will at least on paper lead to the dismantling of a big part of the economy's state-run sector.
Mr. Shih, among others, now believes that the 1980s reforms that unleashed China's private sector and the 1990s reforms that dismantled great sections of the state-run sector are being partly undone.
That amounts to only 5% of the 5m elective operations carried out in the NHS in 2002, but the entry of new competitors is sending out a powerful signal to inefficient hospitals in the state-run sector.
The most direct response I've seen from a state-run sector of the Chinese media came today, in the English edition of the Global Times (in English, I suppose to ensure a broader audience).
The neoliberal "private ownership good, public ownership bad" mantra also doesn't explain how two of western Europe's most successful postwar economies, those of Norway and Austria, operated a large state-run sector.
In accepting an offer of assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1986, Mwinyi adopted some structural reforms and furthered the devaluation of the currency begun in 1984 by Nyerere, who also had denationalized the state-run sector of the sisal industry in 1985.
"China has tremendous overcapacity in its state-run sector, which is a potentially massive deflationary force.
