The privatization of industry has been at a slower pace, but has been given renewed emphasis by the current administration.

Growth in ferrous metallurgy, which is dominated by the Kremikovtsi Metals Combine, has been delayed by a complex privatization process and by obsolete capital equipment.

They also thought the collapse would create new production possibilities by eliminating central planning, substituting a decentralized market system, eliminating huge macroeconomic and structural distortions through liberalization, and providing incentives through privatization.

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, many governments presiding over planned economies began marketization ( or as in the Soviet Union, the system collapsed ) and moving toward market-based economies by allowing individual enterprises to make the pricing, production, and distribution decisions, granting autonomy to state enterprises and ultimately expanding the scope of the private sector through privatization.

The Stability Adjustment Programs ( PAE, for the initials in Spanish ) initiated by President Cristiani's administration committed the government to the privatization of banks, the pension system, electric and telephone companies.

Many properties owned by the government during the previous regime have now been transferred to pro-government enterprises in the name of privatization.

A law and a decree establishing the legal basis and procedures for state property privatization reduced the number of companies controlled by the state.

Despite an expansionary fiscal policy, the public debt remained moderate at around 50 percent of GDP as deficits were financed partly by privatization receipts.

It not been swift to implementing structural changes such as privatization of the publicly owned telephone and energy distribution companies — changes which are desired by the IMF and other international lenders.

The government privatization program ended on schedule in 1998: 80 % of GDP is now produced by the private sector, and foreign owners control 70 % of financial institutions, 66 % of industry, 90 % of telecommunications, and 50 % of the trading sector.

In addition to approximately 200 other state owned businesses, privatization of the oil industry was scheduled to begin sometime in late 2005, though it is opposed by the Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq.

Before 2003, diversification was hindered by limitations on privatization and the effects of the international sanctions of the 1990s.

The Government of Jamaica hopes to encourage economic activity through a combination of privatization, financial sector restructuring, reduced interest rates, and by boosting tourism and related productive activities.

His administration was characterized by privatization of state services, tax reduction, educational reform, welfare reform and major reorganization of executive branch departments.

The Bamako-Dakar line, which has been described as dilapidated, is owned by a joint company established by Mali and Senegal in 1995, with the eventual goal of privatization.

The People's Republic of China has continued the agenda of Deng's reforms by initiating significant privatization of the economy.

Similarly, the government is pursuing a strategy of partial port privatization by granting concessions to private port operators so that they can improve the quality of port facilities and operations.

Recognizing that the government lacks the funding and expertise to modernize facilities and run the ports efficiently, the NPA is pursuing partial port privatization by means of granting concessions to private port operators.

His specific mission was to try to defend the Chilean nationalization of copper against the privatization favored by the US government.

From 1994 through 1998, under the government of Alberto Fujimori, the economy recorded robust growth driven by foreign direct investment, almost 46 % of which was related to the privatization program. The government invested heavily on the country ´ s infrastructure, which became a solid foundation for the future of the Peruvian economy.

In the UK this culminated in the 1993 privatization of British Rail under Thatcher's successor, John Major ; British Rail having been formed by prior nationalization of private rail companies.

Japan Post's formation was part of then prime minister Junichiro Koizumi's long-term reform plan which would culminate in the full privatization of the postal service.

As in many cases, the likely cause of the dissolution of the direct-hire situation draws back to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi who took a hard-line stance on privatization ( e. g. Japan Post ) and the idea of allowing local governments more flexibility in deciding how to spend their budgets.

Gavan McCormack has written that Zoellick used his perch as U. S. trade representative to advocate for Wall Street's policy goals abroad, as during a 2004 intervention in a key privatization issue in Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's re-election campaign.

Koizumi's grandson, Jun ' ichirō Koizumi, served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006 and inherited his grandfather's idea of postal privatization ; Junichiro had himself been Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in 1992-93 under Kiichi Miyazawa.

The party is headed by the former Nagano governor Yasuo Tanaka, and includes Diet members Kōki Kobayashi ( deputy leader ), Takashi Aoyama, Makoto Taki, and Hiroyuki Arai, who left the Liberal Democratic Party in opposition to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ’ s postal privatization drive.

He was critical of Junichiro Koizumi's policies and postal privatization.

After the Upper House rejected privatization, Koizumi scheduled nationwide elections for September 11, 2005.

His grandfather, Koizumi Matajirō, was Minister of Posts and Telecommunications under Prime Ministers Hamaguchi and Wakatsuki and an early advocate of postal privatization.

In addition to the privatization of Japan Post ( which many rural residents fear will reduce their access to basic services such as banking ), Koizumi also slowed down the LDP's heavy subsidies for infrastructure and industrial development in rural areas.

Koizumi calls the privatization a major part in his efforts to curb government spending and the growth of the national debt.

Koizumi won a resounding victory, and the privatization bill was passed in the next session.

Koizumi assuming the presidency meant that for the first time since the 1985 privatization neither president nor chairman was from the ministry of finance.

Challenged to explain this apparent U. S. government intervention in a domestic matter, Koizumi merely expressed his satisfaction that Takenaka had been befriended by such an important figure … It is hard to overestimate the scale of the opportunity offered to U. S. and global finance capital by the privatization of the Postal Savings System.

Prime Minister Koizumi had tried to make the election a referendum on the privatization of Japan Post and reforms that follow, saying that he would step down if the ruling bloc fails to secure a majority.

In 2005 she gained attention by voicing opposition to the postal privatization proposal pushed by Prime Minister Koizumi, an issue which dominated headlines that year.

When asked about the future of the postal privatization bill, she expressed her hope that it will be stopped, adding ( in English ), " I don't know there will be political confusion, but one thing I can tell is, Mr. Koizumi is no longer dynamite.

Koizumi kept Noda and other privatization opponents off of the LDP ticket.

Following the snap elections in which Koizumi won a mandate on privatization with the LDP gaining an overwhelming majority, Noda changed her stance.

Franjo Tuđman's government started to lose popularity as it was criticized ( among other things ) for its involvement in suspicious privatization deals of the early 1990s as well as a partial international isolation.

The Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher started a program of deregulation and privatization after the general election of 1979.

He also started a large privatization program which saw China's private sector grow massively.

In 1992 a new management team led by ex-federal government bureaucrats, Paul Tellier and Michael Sabia, started preparing CN for privatization by emphasizing increased productivity.

Kuwait Investment Authority ( KIA ) has formed the foundation committee for the privatization of Kuwait Airways Corporation ( KAC ), the foundation committee started the work immediately after signing the decision, noting that transferring the assets of KAC and its subsidiaries to KIA will take more than four months, thereby KAC will officially become a shareholding company.

Formerly a state-owned monopoly, OTE's privatization started in 1996 and is now listed on the Athens and London Stock Exchanges.

Following the end of the war, Franjo Tuđman's government started to lose popularity as it was criticized ( among other things ) for its involvement in suspicious privatization deals of the early 1990s.

After an initial boom encouraged by voucher privatization ( the top was in February 1994 retroactively calculated on 1245 points ) the index started to decline fast, and ended the year 1994 with 557 points.

Due to the success of the partial privatization, the Soldier Field Joint Venture started managing the stadium in late 1994.