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Most of these purchases have been made in Africa, with two-thirds taking place in countries where hunger is widespread and institutions for establishing formal land ownership are often weak.
One way to overcome opposition to privatization is to identify potential opponents and cut them in on the deal by means of, for example, stock ownership, a kind of populist capitalism at which Mrs. Thatcher was skilled.
This golden nest egg may have been part of the Kremlin's thinking about the station and its ownership all along.
Each however, espoused a journalism in the service of a personal agenda, which is little different than the subservient journalism practiced under state ownership.
This, in conjunction with the tightening of current sanctions, including the exclusion of Russian banks from Western capital markets, is bound to cause serious shortages, declining living standards, and major problems for Russia’s ownership class.
Removing obstacles to land ownership could improve women’s economic and social prospects faster than almost any other policy option available.
About four million northerners were denied political participation or land ownership on the grounds that they were descendants of migrants from neighboring countries.
More laws – and better enforcement – are needed to reduce domestic violence against women, and to increase women’s bargaining power through broader property ownership, better access to legal and other support services, and greater freedom to leave marriages.
Thanks to new ownership rules, cable television, product endorsements, and other business-related factors, there are probably more supporters of Manchester United in China than there are in the United Kingdom, let alone in the city of Manchester.
The attribution of companies to a common group would need to be based on legal control, that is, ownership of some defined threshold of equity – 51% or higher.
For example, in Argentina, certain forms of cross ownership were banned.
But you would be hard-pressed to know anything about the event, since nobody is taking ownership of it: not Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council’s new permanent president; not Catherine Ashton, the EU’s new foreign policy chief; not even Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero, who has pushed Spain onto the stage in plenty of other areas.
At the close of the Cold War, Central and Eastern Europe’s economies were burdened by pervasive state ownership and concentrated investments in heavy industry.
Is Employee Ownership Coming Back?
FLORENCE: Faced with an embarrassing strike by Air France pilots during the World Cup, the French government purchased labor peace by, among other things, offering striking pilots a big ownership stake in their company.
Such employee ownership, uncritically lumped together with socialist nostrums over the years, was once widely dismissed as a nutty, ideological illusion.
Today, reformers on the left hope that employee ownership will succeed where unionism and government ownership failed in equalizing power and wealth, and in decreasing worker alienation and exploitation.
Reformers on the right hope that employee ownership will improve productivity and increase worker identification with the interests of capital.
In the United States employee ownership has been promoted by large tax subsidies and by exceptional provisions in pension laws.
Transportation is another field where employee ownership is common: around the world, trucking companies, bus companies, and taxi companies are often organized as cooperatives owned by their drivers.
Owing in part to encouragement from public policy, employee ownership has been spreading in recent years.
So, does employee ownership have a bright future in the organization of industry?
Employee ownership improves incentives for employee productivity, and reduces incentives for a firm to exploit its workers by, for example, imposing poor wages or working conditions on employees who, though highly productive, find that for personal or professional reasons their opportunities for alternative employment have decreased over time.
If they were the most important factor governing the success or failure of employee ownership, however, we would expect employee ownership to be most common in those industries in which workers are unusually difficult to monitor, are relatively immobile, or are extensively unionized.
Yet just the reverse is true, at least where employee ownership is not mandated by law.
Evidently there are countervailing costs to employee ownership that often outweigh these potential benefits.
Employee ownership has long been successful even in industries -- such as plywood manufacturing and investment banking -- that are both volatile and relatively capital intensive.
Rather, the Achilles’ heel of employee ownership seems to lie in problems of governance.
True employee ownership, with effective employee participation in governance, has generally met long-term success only where there is substantial homogeneity of interest among the employees involved: the employees who participate in ownership commonly do similar work within the firm, have similar kinds and levels of skill, and exercise little hierarchical authority over each other.
Experience with employee ownership offers a mixed picture.
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