Many public utilities, including the national telecommunications company Matáv, the national oil and gas conglomerate MOL Group, and electricity supply and production companies were privatized as well.

President Menem had already privatized the state telecom concern and national airlines ( the once-premier airline in Latin America, Aerolíneas Argentinas, which was later almost run into the ground ).

Shortly after his appointment, Mitchell announced that Canada's national parks would not be privatized or commercialized apart from a small number of projects that had already been approved in the previous parliament.

The party did not preach nationalization or privatization in general (" the consensus is that the state must not be too big or too small, but ' have the size and functions corresponding to the needs of the whole of society '"), although president Cardoso privatized many large public companies, such as Companhia Vale do Rio Doce ( CVRD ) and the national telecommunication system.

* Robert Kwiatkowski, head of the Polish national public TV broadcaster TVP, the second channel of which was discussed to be privatized and a possible target for an Agora S. A. takeover

Velázquez continued to support them even as they privatized state-owned industries, a bastion of power for the CTM, as part of the structural adjustment plans imposed by the International Monetary Fund, while signing national pacts that shifted most of the burden to workers while their minimum wage in real terms fell by nearly 70 percent in these years.

Though most of the State enterprises privatized during his tenure remain in private hands, perhaps the most significant economic legacy of his administration, private pension funds, have since largely been returned to the public sector.

Among others reforms, they made the central bank independent, cut tariffs, privatized the state-controlled pension system, state industries, and banks, and reduced taxes.

Most Democrats and some Republicans are critical of such ideas, partly because of the large ( US $ 1 trillion or more ) federal borrowing the plan would require, which might actually worsen the imbalance between revenues and expenses that Bush pointed to as a looming problem ; and partly because of the problems encountered by the United Kingdom's privatized pension plan.

The electricity distribution system was privatized in 2002.

For example, he favors the introduction of education vouchers as a prelude to privatization of the school system, and the decentralization of the police as a similar first step toward privatized defense.

The parish has a highly-rated school system and is one of the few in Louisiana that has privatized school bus services.

The role of operating the DNS system was privatized, and opened up to competition, while the central management of name allocations would be awarded on a contract tender basis.

* it mandates a six-city trial of a partly privatized Medicare system ( by 2010 );

Eventually, I'd like to see the entire Social Security system privatized.

Subsequently, the Filmon government privatized the province's telephone system Telecom Services Inc. recorded in its 2010 Management Proxy Circular, that Filmon was a director from 2003, currently receiving a director's annual retainer of $ 120, 000 plus $ 20, 000 as chair of the Human Resources and Compensation Committee mandated balanced budgets, and took actions limiting the power of teacher's and nurse's unions.

The extent of this policy declined in the 1980s and 1990s as governments increasingly privatized industries that had been nationalized, replacing their strategic economic influence with use of the tax system and of interest rates.

* 1982 The nationalization of the Mexican banking system made by President José López Portillo, later in the Carlos Salinas de Gortari presidency ( 1988 – 1994 ) a large number of banks were privatized.

On the formation of East Germany on 7 October 1949, the railway system in the Soviet Zone retained the name Deutsche Reichsbahn ( DR ), despite the connotations of the word " Reich "; this was due to the designation of the Reichsbahn in postwar treaties and military protocols as the railway operator in West Berlin, a role it retained until the creation of the unified and privatized DB AG at the beginning of 1994.

Despite this, the water system of Berlin was partially privatized in 1999 for fiscal reasons.

Through a system of decentralized, privatized providers, driver services are available at over 1700 sites statewide.

The privatized system of providers sometimes referred to as auto tag agents or even private DMV offices has existed for over 45 years.

This same Reform introduced two important changes to the health system: a ) it fully privatized the disability insurance system, which became an integral part of the so-called " AFP system " ( the AFPs are the private companies that manage the PRAs on workers ' behalf ); and, b ) it allowed workers to opt out from the government health insurance system with all their mandatory contribution ( another 7 % of wages ), as long as they were willing and able to buy with that money a minimum health insurance plan in what became the " ISAPRE system " ( ISAPREs are private companies that offer diverse health insurance plans ).

When the water system in Cochabamba was privatized and taken over by Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco, California, United States, suddenly charging the poor as much as 25 % of their incomes for water, people in Cochabamba responded with widespread protests that finally reversed the privatization on April 10, 2000.

One long-term issue that will face Japan's regional banks will be the level of competition from Japan Post, the Japanese postal system which is also the world ’ s largest savings institution, by assets, when it is privatized in 2007.

A program begun in March 1993 has privatized 80 % of all housing units and nearly 2, 000 small, medium, and large enterprises.

It completed its ninth economic development plan in 2002 ; its currency has been made convertible, and 17 state enterprises have been privatized.

While media have reported widely the grand corruption that accompanied the sales, one study has argued that in addition to increased operating efficiency, daily petty corruption is, or would be, larger without privatization, and that corruption is more prevalent in non-privatized sectors, and that there is evidence to suggest that extralegal and unofficial activities are more prevalent in countries that privatized less.

Much of the state holdings in the agricultural sector have been privatized, while the role of the government has been reduced to conducting research and providing infrastructure.

Similarly, some port operations have been privatized, a trend that has been accompanied by a fall in transshipment fees and an increase in efficiency.

It is expected that Yemenia, which is currently 49 percent owned by the Saudi Arabian government and 51 percent owned by the Yemen government, will eventually be privatized, but there has been resistance from the Saudis.

Smallwood residents also have access to a brook, White Lake Brook, located in the center of the community, which has a beach, that was gated and privatized in the late 90's, limiting access for residents.

Noted current and former portfolio companies include Dex Media, the former directories business of Qwest Communications ; Willcom, a Japanese wireless company ; Casema, a Dutch cable company ; and Insight Communications, the ninth largest cable company in the U. S. The Carlyle Group was once a major investor in US Investigations Services, which is the privatized arm of the United States Office of Personnel Management's Office of Federal Investigations, but has since divested itself, selling its stake to Providence Equity Partners in 2007.

At the provincial level, privatized former Crown corporations include Alberta Government Telephones ( which merged with privately owned BC Tel to form Telus ), BCRIC, Manitoba Telecom Services, and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan which retained its name and has become the world's largest producer of potash.

Here is the enterprise which has been privatized and then renationalized:

Additionally, it has privatized numerous government-owned companies, e. g. El Al and Bank Leumi, and has moved to privatize land in Israel, which until now has been held symbolically by the state in the name of the Jewish people.

His strong nationalist approach to the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute is closer to Right-wing politics, and he has not considered classic left-wing policies such as socialization of production or the nationalization of the public services privatized during the presidency of Carlos Menem.

Nicolas Sarkozy has privatized companies in which the Power Corporation of Canada has invested.

After the creation of the privatized Civilian Marksmanship Program ( CMP ) in 1996, the Army has located additional M1903 and M1903A3 rifles which have been made available for sale to eligible CMP customers.

One of the latest is Masaharu Ikuta, who has been appointed to head the newly privatized Japan Post.

Transport – Urban and local bus services have been deregulated and the National Bus Company has been privatized into more than 60 companies following ASI's suggestion that the National Bus Company be broken up and urban and local bus services be opened to competition and choice.

: According to recent research on the British Columbia halibut fishery, where the commons has been at least partly privatized, substantial ecological and economic benefits have resulted.

One of the biggest steel mills in South Central Europe has been privatized and now bears the name of the Mittal Steel Corp.

A generation of people that suffered due to the Cultural Revolution that lacked the proper education or applicable skills has found it increasingly difficult to find a stable place in the increasingly privatized workforce.