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Because privatization reduced bureaucratic control over firms, these firms have started restructuring.
Again, the experience of privatization in Russia shows how to fight the bureaucracy.
To get market reforms through, privatization built coalitions against the bureaucracy.
Privatization has also created a powerful new constituency for further liberalization, including businessmen, brokers, managers of privatized firms, and not least of all the 40 million new shareholders.
Baroness Emma Nicholson, the European Parliament’s special envoy to Romania, has warned that unless Romania’s next government speeds the pace of reform - particularly privatization of big state companies - hopes of joining the EU will collapse.
Privatization advanced, nationalists were constrained, relations with our big Hungarian minority improved, the country stood with the West during the Kosovo war.
Poland and Hungary’s postcommunists regained power after reform-minded governments freed prices, began privatization, and encouraged business.
Nastase knows that if he surrenders to the popular mood, raising salaries dramatically and stalling privatization, the economy will be crippled and Romania’s chances of joining the EU disappear.
First, in Latin America's privatization gold rush, everything from public utilities to manufacturing companies went on the auction block.
In the end, the income from privatization delivered little in the way of better infrastructure or more competitive exports.
Political reforms, privatization, anti-corruption measures, a search for new leaders untainted by compromise with the former regime, and implementation of a pro-European foreign policy met no resistance.
But secularization, rationalization, and atomization of civil and social life, and the steady expansion of government into every social sphere, have lead to a privatization of culture and religion, reducing their potential to stimulate feelings of community, identity, and solidarity.
Likewise, China’s property law was debated for years, as conservative forces, with the support of various media outlets, resisted marketization and privatization in defense of older citizens whose livelihoods continued to depend on the “iron rice bowl” of state ownership.
Instead, privatization was blocked, while fiscal reforms and deregulation remained paper proposals.
As Cameron and other Western conservatives intensify their efforts to clear a path to the past, it is important to bear in mind that there is nothing novel or innovative about the absence of a welfare state and the privatization of basic services.
Latin America is currently experiencing a backlash against privatization, a trend that highlights the importance of public-sector reform.
Privatization efforts are often highly salient politically and unpopular.
Breaking the distorting power of these criminal networks requires first confronting the distortions that perpetuate it: the failed war on drugs and criminalization of consumers; the burgeoning privatization of security; police agencies that reproduce, rather than reduce, violence and crime; prisons that hone offenders’ criminal skills; and judicial systems that re-victimize crime victims.
In practice, however, the budget targets will surely be allowed to slip, provided the government carries out its promises on privatization, labor markets, and pension reform.
Indeed, early privatization is likely to be destructive in its own terms, because property rights will remain in question for some time.
Indeed, privatization was all the more bizarre as a policy choice because it was doomed in advance: investors clearly would not be attracted to buy assets where property rights might change once a legitimate Iraqi government took over – a huge impediment to investment in Kosovo as well.
In these circumstances, a strong ideological and policy reaction against the pro-market “Washington Consensus,” with its emphasis on liberalization, deregulation, and privatization, is anything but a surprise.
That is a big change from traditional privatization of public services, in which government contractors reap profits simply by billing for services.
In the past, corruption was usually said to be located within the ranks of public servants, and this was used as a partial justification for privatization, especially in developing countries.
Important structural reforms were implemented, particularly privatization.
Privatization, opening up closed markets and professions, promoting entrepreneurship, and eliminating public-sector waste should proceed at a fast pace over the next few months.
But governments must also introduce the legal and regulatory frameworks needed for privatization and public-private partnerships (PPPs).
Privatization and PPPs in infrastructure, energy, health, education, transport, and logistics could attract massive domestic and foreign investment.
The “Reagan Revolution” had four main components: tax cuts for the rich; spending cuts on education, infrastructure, energy, climate change, and job training; massive growth in the defense budget; and economic deregulation, including privatization of core government functions, like operating military bases and prisons.
Similarly, in a Marxist vein, most reformers - and communists - in the former Soviet Union argued that privatization had to precede liberalization, this despite the fact that many Central European countries had failed to de-monopolize and privatize until they liberalized.
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