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MAY 7, 1993 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Why America Needs Privatized Infrastructure Industry

"We need to create a new industry of firms that finance, design, build, own, and operate major infrastructure . . . a new paradigm for infrastructure in this ...

MAR 9, 1993 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization: The Canadian Story

Crown corporations were created not out of ideological fervor, but pragmatically, to serve social, cultural, and economic priorities the private sector could not be expected ...

FEB 19, 1993 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): An Update on Privatization in the Czech Republic: The Economic Transformation After the Split

"Two years ago there were no private shops in the Czech lands. Now, about 60-70 percent of retail, trade, and services are back in the ...

JAN 29, 1993 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Mass Privatization in Poland: Differences and Similarities with Other Privatization Programs

Mass privatization in Poland may be the solution for sound companies with growth potential that cannot yet attract investors, domestic or foreign.

DEC 10, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): The Politics of Russia's Privatization Program

The Russian privatization program is overtly political. To make privatization work, managers, local governments, and workers' collectives need incentives to push for it.

NOV 20, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Moving Municipal Services Into the Marketplace

"The antithesis of populism is when government taxes its citizens, takes money out of their pockets, and says it knows how to spend their money ...

OCT 20, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): The Case for Structural Reform Through Private Innovation

"America's future will tend inevitably and inexorably to reflect the quality or the absence of quality of our schools."

OCT 16, 1992 Article

The Politics and Ethics of Global Environmental Leadership

At this second U.S.-Japan Task Force seminar, delegates and observers of UNCED explored the underlying ethical concerns at Rio, points of convergence relating ...

OCT 5, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): The Role of Private Property in Development

"The word 'privatization' doesn't work when you're talking about the private rights of poor people. In my country the terminology's all wrong. It is associated ...

JUN 26, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatizing Eastern Germany: A Report from the Treuhand

Founded in East Germany in March 1990, the Treuhandanstalt had facilitated the privatization of over 7,000 enterprises by June 1992 and generated revenues of $17.5 billion and investment pledges ...