Jamaica has privatised, de-privatised and re-privatised its failing sugar estates, selling three to a Chinese company in 2011.
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Rural land rights should be privatised; just as urban land rights have been privatised in all but name.
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State enterprises have won autonomy, or in effect been privatised.
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State assets, including the national airline, El Al, were privatised.
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It can take inspiration from how Britain privatised Royal Mail.
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Tens of thousands of people protested against Chile's privatised pension scheme.
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Many of Britain's privatised industries are much too close to government.
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Mercenaries are resurrecting globally, and war is becoming privatised once more.
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Some opposition lawmakers have called for the airline to be privatised.
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And just as the fighting was privatised, so too was the propaganda.
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They privatised hundreds of companies, with no regard for competition or regulation.
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Ferronikeli has changed hands several times since it was privatised in 2005.
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Since Germany privatised Deutsche Post in 1995, the firm has expanded massively.
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The bank is expected to be privatised later this year or next year.
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Privatised banks would also be free to pay salaries to attract talented staff.
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Guindos also said that Spain's state-owned Bankia should end up being privatised.
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The company, partly privatised more than 20 years ago, is still partly state owned.
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A foreign bid for the privatised Dutch postal service was also repelled last year.
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It would mark Japan Post's first annual loss since it was privatised in 2007.
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The process of unwinding an entire privatised industry would still be risky and uncertain.
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Giants such as AT&T were broken up and state-owned firms were privatised.
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But then once they privatised them again, they set them free of proper regulation.
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TAP, which was partly privatised in 2015, is 50%-owned by the Portuguese state.
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NLB is Slovenia's largest bank that has been privatised over the past two years.
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Eighty percent owned by the Japanese government, Japan Post was partly privatised in 2015.
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The government gifted urban residents their homes in the late 1990s when property was privatised.
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Many state-owned firms were privatised, most lucratively Telmex, which was sold to Mr Slim.
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His main achievement as policymaker is the design of KanCare, the state's privatised Medicaid programme.
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TAP, which was partly privatised in 2015, is 50-percent owned by the Portuguese state.
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It also owns stakes in almost 100 firms, most of which ought to be fully privatised.
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Unlike his neighbours, Mr Lukashenko never embraced free markets and democracy, or privatised Belarus's state factories.
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Pipeline monopoly Transneft and Russian Railways would be privatised no earlier than in 2021, he said.
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"We have agreed with the opposition parties that PIA will not be privatised," he told Reuters.
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Ciech was privatised in 2014 when Kulczyk Holding bought a 51-percent stake in the company.
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The injunction comes less than four months after BR Distribuidora was privatised through a share offering.
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He said state-owned enterprises should be more competitive, but shied away from suggesting they be privatised.
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He offered what is a now-familiar speech, railing against everything from inequality to privatised water companies.
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As the free-market "Washington Consensus" gained ground in the 1980s, many banks shrank or were privatised.
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The Corbynites want to nationalise the "crown jewels" that the Thatcherites privatised: the utilities and British Rail.
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He cut business and income taxes in what he called a "real live experiment" and privatised Medicaid.
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Britain privatised Royal Mail in 2013, allowing it to raise capital and evolve free from political meddling.
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In Nigeria, though the grid is fully privatised, electricity prices are kept artificially low by the regulator.
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In the 1980s, under Margaret Thatcher, they deregulated markets, privatised state-run industries and encouraged home ownership.
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"It paves the way for a privatised, viable business to emerge from the sale process," she continued.
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Margaret Thatcher privatised British firms in the 1980s and used TV campaigns to sell shares to the public.
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ABN Amro was re-privatised in 2015, but the Dutch state still owns 56 percent of its shares.
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Urban housing was privatised only in the 1990s, but already around 85% of city folk own their homes.
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Football clubs were traditionally community assets, and at some point they were monetised, privatised and owned by individuals.
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The Conservative governments of the 1980s and 1990s privatised much of Britain's infrastructure, including the railway in 1997.
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The Singapore-registered investment vehicle that holds the newly privatised 19.753 percent stake in Rosneft is called QHG Shares.
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Many countries, including Australia, Britain and Canada, have privatised air-traffic services or turned them into state-owned firms.
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Initially Steve Mnuchin, now treasury secretary, told a business-news network that Fannie and Freddie should be privatised again.
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many former Communist countries privatised state-owned companies and opened domestic stockmarkets.
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The Singapore-registered investment vehicle that holds the newly privatised 19.5 percent stake in Rosneft is called QHG Shares.
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In 1997 the postal service was privatised during one of Argentina's periodic experiments with free markets and hard money.
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Nigeria privatised most of its power sector in 2013 but retained control of its monopoly grid, operated by TCN.
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FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER SAYS FRANCAISE DES JEUX LOTTERY OPERATOR WILL BE PRIVATISED BY END-2019 IF MARKET CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT
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Britain privatised large swathes of its economy, declared "manufacturing" old hat and gambled its future on services, particularly financial ones.
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Dammam's King Fahd International Airport will be corporatised in the third quarter of 2017, before being privatised, GACA officials said.
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Polls suggest such a measure could pass, forcing the city to consider spending billions of euros buying privatised housing back.
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JR Kyushu is the fourth spin-off of the Japanese National Railways, which was privatised by the government in 1987.
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The jewels of French industry were privatised and their bosses obliged to think of profitability as well as impressing politicians.
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It bought a sugar factory in the central Afyon province for 725 million lira when it was privatised last year.
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The IPO was part of an "exit plan" for the two partners when QSR was privatised in 2013, he added.
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He added that the list of companies to be privatised and the size of stakes were yet to be finalised.
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Britain's rail services were privatised in the 1990s and since then different companies have bid to run sections of the network.
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It was first privatised in the 1990s, then nationalized in the last decade, before being sold to telecoms billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov.
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State assets are not the only area in effect to have been privatised; so too has the power of the state.
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Eventually, the state-owned banks could be privatised and the shadow banks put under the same prudential regulations as other lenders.
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POSCO was privatised in 2000, but chief executives have previously been replaced when a new administration takes office, local media reported.
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A paper from the World Bank pointed out that investment flooded into Britain's water industry after it was privatised in 1989.
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Furthermore, Fitch does not expect transparency to significantly deteriorate after Wanda is privatised and delisted from the Hong Kong stock exchange.
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It quoted him as saying that three other power distribution companies would be privatised in the second half of next year.
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However, ASR's own financial stability was never in question and the state has always said it would eventually be re-privatised.
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The incident exemplified how the railways, which made much progress after being privatised in the early 1990s, have gone off-track.
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"I am doubtful that OCP would be privatised but maybe an affiliate or two of the group could be," Hajji said.
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Currencies floated, capital controls were abolished, the financial sector was liberalised, industry was privatised and tax rates on higher incomes were cut.
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In Mr Gabuev's words, "one man and one firm with access to Mr Putin have privatised Russia's foreign policy and state resources".
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It was privatised in 2007 when French telecoms operator Orange bought a majority stake, which was subsequently sold to Helios in 2015.
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Georgiades added that the Larnaca port should also be privatised this year and that plans to sell the country's state lottery were progressing.
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From the 1980s onwards, many of these were broken up, privatised and liberalised, so that market forces could determine where best to invest.
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Inheriting a state in economic crisis, including an $8bn budget shortfall, he slashed spending, privatised services and accepted protest as proof of concept.
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He reiterated Vinci was ready to bid for the Lyon and Nice airports in France, which are set to be privatised this year.
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For the party's market liberals, that should mean deciding how to promote a small-state philosophy in an already deregulated and privatised economy.
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The intention is laudable, but the biggest intervention since Britain privatised its energy industry three decades ago may do more harm than good.
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The logs themselves were written by various staff from private companies contracted by the Australian government to work within the privatised detention industry.
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Unfortunately, three decades after it was privatised by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, neither company nor sector looks sufficiently strategic or sustainable.
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Once state-owned, but privatised in 1997, it is the biggest employer of Brumadinho's 40,000 residents, and pays 60% of the town's taxes.
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HKEX could one day be acquired by a privatised Shanghai exchange; two of America's giant exchange groups—ICE and Nasdaq, say—could combine.
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But perhaps because its planes are emblazoned with a Union Jack, BA, which was privatised in 1987, is subject to intense public scrutiny.
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Feihe had been listed in New York but was privatised in 2013, mainly by chairman Leng Youbin and Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia.
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In the 1990s, under the fund's guidance, their government cut spending, scrapped subsidies, liberalised the exchange rate and privatised over 200 state-run firms.
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Seventy-five percent of its share capital was sold to private equity firm Lone Star last year, the first bridge bank to be privatised.
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State-owned enterprises (SoEs), which play a large role in the economy, are being restructured and streamlined, with some being privatised or declared bankrupt.
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ADNOC Distribution is also the first Gulf energy asset to be privatised in an era of low oil prices that began three years ago.
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Margaret Thatcher confronted the unions instead of negotiating with them, denounced "industrial strategies" as nonsense and privatised three-quarters of Britain's state-owned companies.
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The coalition said "corporations under government hands - railway, sugar, industry parks, hotels and various manufacturing firms" would also be either partially or fully privatised.
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Many wealthier residents live in gated communities, which have become common since urban housing, once almost entirely state-owned, was privatised in the 1990s.
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Mr Navalny says the levy could be modelled on the windfall tax the Blair government introduced on privatised UK utilities in the late 1990s.
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A few were privatised in the early 2000s by a right-wing government which—not coincidentally, some think—was booted out of office soon afterwards.
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Ulyukayev initially opposed Rosneft buying Bashneft, one of the most lucrative state assets to be privatised in years, but eventually signed off on the deal.
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By the time Austria joined the EU in 1995, the newly privatised Voestalpine looked in no position to compete with the bloc's lower-cost plants.
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The finance ministry and state-run Kuwait Petroleum Corporation are studying which sectors and services may be privatised, Undersecretary Khalifa Hamada told a news conference.
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MLM is one of 30 companies that are fully or partially owned by the state and are set to be privatised this year or next.
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The post office, which was partly privatised last October, is a conglomerate that last year derived 85 percent of its revenues from insurance and banking services.
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But in order for Fannie and Freddie to be privatised—at any rate, in a way that makes them safe—they will have to be recapitalised.
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A Chinese-led consortium bought a 49.99 percent stake in Toulouse airport last year when the government privatised the regional hub, home of European planemaker Airbus.
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The grids of the country's two biggest states are already privatised, and planned sales of the next two biggest states' grids were cancelled amid vocal public opposition.
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Today, with much of the privatised rail system in chaos and some franchises being taken back under public control, sentient Tories are telling a more complicated story.
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It is also a reminder of how fast the industry has been privatised: over 50% of European airports have some private participation, up from 22% in 2010.
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In a bid to develop the country's domestic equities market, the government also wants shares of newly-privatised firms to be listed on its new Astana bourse.
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And even if we are fully privatised I'm quite sure that the government will continue to support leading banks because they're quite important for the Russian economy.
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But when chunks of the service were privatised in 2015, her bosses became more concerned with meeting targets that have little to do with helping former offenders.
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However, the airport's new Terminal 5 will be run as a concession by Dublin Airport Authority before the rest of the airport is itself privatised, he said.
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The former state-owned Japanese National Railways and its partially privatised regional replacements have struggled for decades to make their high-speed Shinkansen ("bullet train") routes profitable.
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Italy's railways will not be privatised before the general elections due to take place next year, its CEO Renato Mazzoncini told L'Economia/Corriere della Sera on Monday.
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SOCHI, Russia, May 20 (Reuters) - Russia's VTB Bank may be privatised in 2017 if it doesn't happen this year, the bank's CEO Andrei Kostin said on Friday.
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France's Orange bought a majority share in Telkom Kenya when it was privatised in 2007 but then sold its stake to London-based Helios Investment in 2015.
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Monaco said on Tuesday it was close to a deal to purchase a stake in the newly-privatised Nice airport from the winning consortium led by Italy's Atlantia.
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Privatised by the Tories in the mid-1990s, they are now the prime target in the Labour Party's campaign to roll forward the frontiers of the state again.
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The privatised groups typically trade at a premium to the value of their capital set by regulators, because yield-hungry investors are attracted to their stable cash flows.
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RAY SOIFER Green Valley, Arizona Your leader calling for the United States Postal Service to be privatised gave short shrift to deliveries in remote areas ("Deliverance", April 21st).
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Monaco said on Tuesday it was close to a deal to purchase a stake in the newly privatised Nice airport from the winning consortium led by Italy's Atlantia.
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Royal Mail, which was privatised in 2013, is trying to modernise after years of underinvestment and has reduced layers of management, upgraded technology and cut its property bill.
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PALLBEARERS bearing coffins scrawled with the legend "No+AFP" joined tens of thousands of Chileans in Santiago on August 25.4st to protest against the country's privatised pension system.
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An independent review into how Britain's privatised rail network should be run in future headed by former British Airways CEO Keith Williams is due in the coming weeks.
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The opposition Labour Party has focused on fears among voters that the NHS might be privatised as it tries to capitalise on the Brexit crisis within May's Conservative Party.
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The loss-making airline, which is 48.9% government-owned and 7.8% held by Air France-KLM, was privatised 23 years ago but sank into debt and losses in 2014.
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The Australian rules, which maximised what the government could get upfront from selling the airports, are more extreme than that in other regions with large privatised airports like Europe.
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Britain nationalised and merged its biggest hauliers in the 1940s, but a state behemoth was outrun by one-man outfits and the business was privatised again in the 1980s.
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The company was the first international satellite operator to be privatised, and Apax was part of the group that invested in 2003, before taking it public two years later.
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The West African nation, long crippled by blackouts, privatised its electricity sector in 2013 in an effort to improve supplies and attract new investment, neither of which has happened.
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He said Russia's publicly traded companies had the highest chance of being privatised this year, including diamond producer Alrosa, the nation's top oil producer Rosneft and oil company Bashneft.
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NLB, which has been privatised over the past two years, has market capitalisation of about 1.2 billion euros and operates in Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro.
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The company was the first international satellite operator to be privatised, and Apax was part of the group that invested in 2003, before taking it public two years later.
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In Argentina, the oil industry has been scarred by the decision in 2012 by the then president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to renationalise 51% of YPF, privatised 19 years earlier.
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The insurer, the former insurance arm of Belgian financial group Fortis, is slated to be privatised this year as the Dutch financial sector puts the 2008 financial crisis behind it.
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Thames Water, Northumbrian Water and Yorkshire Water are among England and Wales' privatised water companies deciding this week whether they will appeal to the competition regulator over their financial settlements.
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When British Rail, a nationalised monopoly, was privatised in 1994 train operations were split off from the track, which is now owned and run by Network Rail, a public body.
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"We know that there were several nationalisations where evidently there is the obligation to reduce that (stake) or the state's stake will be privatised," Strobl said without naming individual banks.
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That is a question facing many countries' operators, including that of Japan, which the government has privatised and is slowly selling off until it owns just a third by 2400.
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Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has so far maintained that SNS and other banks and insurance companies nationalised in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis should eventually be re-privatised.
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State-owned MKB, Hungary's fifth-largest lender by assets, was privatised last year after its distressed assets had been spun off under a restructuring plan approved by the European Commission.
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LJUBLJANA, March 17 (Reuters) - Slovenia's largest bank Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB), which is due to be privatised this year, said it has put its Macedonian pension business up for sale.
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OPAP, which was fully privatised in 2013, offers sports betting and lotteries through a network of about 5,750 outlets in Greece and Cyprus via a revenue-sharing scheme with agents.
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Polls suggest such a measure could pass, forcing the city to consider spending billions of euros buying back privatised housing instead of funding the construction of new social housing units.
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I wanted to find out where will be left to dance and come together with strangers when the capital becomes even more sterile, corporate and privatised than it is today.
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Britain privatised its railways in the 1990s, but over the last three years some contracts with private companies have become problematic, and this is the second renationalisation in two years.
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OPAP, which was fully privatised in 2013, currently offers sports betting and lotteries through a network of about 5,750 outlets in Greece and Cyprus via a revenue-sharing scheme with agents.
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He opened up the economy, tore down tariff walls, floated the currency, demolished inflation, privatised state-owned companies, revived universal health care and set the path for decades of uninterrupted growth.
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Since the industry was privatised in the mid-1990s, the number of rail journeys in the south-east has soared by 130%, though fares have risen by 45% in real terms.
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LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Russia's second-largest bank VTB said on Tuesday that his bank should not be privatised before sanctions on the bank had been removed.
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Sechin's Rosneft became Russia's biggest oil company early in Putin's rule after swallowing assets seized by the state from Yukos, a privatised firm whose boss Mikhail Khordokovsky was jailed for fraud.
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The Sunday Times reported that any demand would take the form of a windfall tax similar to that imposed on privatised utilities by former Prime Minister Tony Blair's government in 1997.
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Of course, it's important to care about and engage with the problems we can from climate change, a weakened welfare state, and a world in which everything is commodified and privatised.
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ROME, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Poste Italiane will soon buy a stake in Italy's SIA, a government source said on Tuesday, as the recently privatised Italian post office expands its payment business.
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HSH Nordbank, which required a state rescue after risky investments turned sour and it was hit by the slump in the shipping industry, must be privatised by the end of February.
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Hacène Belmessous, whose book "The New French Happiness, or The World According to Disney" is a study of Val d'Europe, criticises it as a privatised space run by a multinational corporation.
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The Communication Workers Union announced that a majority of its 111,000 members in Royal Mail had voted for industrial action, the first since the company was privatised four years ago. bit.
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Swedish house prices fell 0003 percent in two years in the early 2000s, contributing to the nationalisation of what is now the region's biggest lender, Nordea, which has since been re-privatised.
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Privatised water companies in England must "clean up their act" as the number of pollution incidents deteriorated to an "unacceptable" level last year, the country's Environment Agency said in its annual report.
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Qasabi said the program was on track and the government, having identified sectors to be privatised, was working on the complex mechanics of asset transfers that would take place by mid-2019.
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Royal Mail, which was privatised in 2013, is trying to modernise after years of underinvestment and has taken steps such as reducing layers of management, upgrading its technology and selling off property.
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After being privatised in 2014, the port increased the charge for coal ships by around 40% to $0.69 per tonne in January 2015, and later raised the charge to $0.76 per tonne.
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LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - The state-controlled International Bank of Azerbaijan will be privatised as soon as possible, but that won't happen before next year, Finance Minister Samir Sharifov said on Tuesday.
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The bulk of airports in the region are run by governments but more are expected to be privatised in an effort to reduce the burden on state coffers squeezed by lower oil prices.
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In the last few decades, it has seemed that history was moving in the opposite direction, away from larger and more responsible governments and towards a more individualistic and privatised approach to policy.
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Vietnam's reform drive has, however, picked up pace after the April swearing in of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who has asked privatised SOEs, big players like flag carrier Vietnam Airlines IPO-VAL.
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Should the East Coast rail service return to government hands it will be the second time in a decade that the line has been renationalised, highlighting the difficulties facing Britain's privatised train network.
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The financial analogy of "portfolio model", and its association with Michael Bloomberg when he was mayor of New York City, has made the term pejorative among those who talk of education being privatised.
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Royal Mail, which was privatised earlier this decade, is using gig-economy staff to deliver parcels and is investing in startups to improve its services, says Daniel Roeska of Bernstein, a research firm.
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The delegation included the chief executive of telecoms group Orange, which wants to position itself in Ethiopia before the state telecoms operator is privatised, but its prospects are no clearer after the trip.
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But after housing was privatised in the 22013s, the government tied its fortunes to this rapidly expanding sector of society, encouraging it to strive for the material trappings of its rich-world peers.
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Royal Mail, which is facing stiff competition in its domestic parcels business, was privatised in 2013 and has since reduced layers of management, upgraded technology and cut its property bill to save costs.
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The government has also asked the Industry and Trade Ministry to work with EVN to look at privatising electricity retail sales, the statement said, adding that the power distribution firms would not be privatised.
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The dispute at Southern, whose line connects London to Brighton and Gatwick Airport, began last April, and has turned into the sector's longest-running since Britain's train services were privatised in the mid-1990s.
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Other Dutch banks and insurers that were bailed out after the 2008 crisis were re-privatised or sold as soon as possible, including seeking stock market listings for bank ABN Amro and insurer ASR.
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LJUBLJANA, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Slovenian metal products maker Unior, which is due to be privatised, has received a loan of 13 million euros ($118 million) from a syndicate of banks, the company said on Monday.
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Two years after it was privatised in 1997 Italy's national operator, also known as TIM, was the subject of a hostile takeover which left it saddled with so much debt that it never fully recovered.
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Mohamed Ramady, the author of a new e-book, "Saudi Aramco 2030", says that relations between partially privatised oil companies and their governments become strained when the interests of governments clash with those of shareholders.
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Over the past couple of decades more than 21990 countries, including Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, have privatised (or at least "commercialised") their ATC services, freeing them to innovate and modernise without government interference.
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Despite attempts to save it, including large protests and a hunger strike, the potash mine was shut down—one of 203,500 companies in the east privatised or liquidated by the Treuhand, a new government agency.
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Italy's post office, which was partly privatised last October, said total sales rose 20.8783 percent in the period from a year earlier to 9.76 billion euros ($11 billion), above analysts' forecast of 9.13 billion euros.
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NAIROBI, June 17 (Reuters) - Ethiopia will split its state telecoms provider into two businesses before it is privatised, state-affiliated media reported on Monday, a key part of the government's plan to attract foreign investors.
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Power transmission and distribution costs make up around half of household power bills, and to keep a lid on prices, the government is proposing barring networks, like the recently privatised Endeavour Energy, from appealing rate decisions.
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The bank, which was hit by risky assets turning sour in 2008 and a slump in global trade in ensuing years, has to be privatised under European state-aid rules by the end of February 2018.
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The bank, which is expected to be privatised later this year or next year, said bad loans had fallen to 8.8 percent of all loans by the end of March, down from 12.7 percent a year earlier.
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Air Zimbabwe is among dozens of state-owned firms in the country, which shares a border with South Africa, that are set to be partially or fully privatised as the government seeks to cut its fiscal deficit.
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What this has meant in practical terms is that the recent problems of financial capitalism have been displaced onto the poor while the state has withdrawn or privatised services and placed a premium on exclusive property rights.
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LJUBLJANA, March 2 (Reuters) - Slovenia's largest bank, state-owned Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB), which is due to be privatised later this year or in 2019, postponed the release of its 2017 results to the end of April.
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The cost of privatised care, usually available to veterans in remote areas or to those who would otherwise wait a long time for treatment, surged 500% between 2002 and 2014, according to a report by the RAND corporation.
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AS, which is being re-privatised by the Dutch state, on Monday set an indicative price range in its initial public offering that values it at 2.7 billion euros to 3.3 billion euros ($3 billion to $3.7 billion).
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AS, which is being re-privatised by the Dutch state, on Monday set an indicative price range in its initial public offering that values it at 1853 billion euros to 2185 billion euros ($231 billion to $22008 billion).
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Corporation tax was reduced from 45 to 18%; the three main banks were privatised (sold to Oddsson's close circle of friends); and there was a complex process of fishing privatisation that produced an instant class of 'quota millionaires'.
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Labour wants to return Royal Mail, one of the world's oldest postal services, to state control six years after the company was privatised, saying this was a "historic mistake" and that the company was sold off too cheaply.
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MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Russia's second largest lender VTB, shipping giant Sovcomflot and Novorossiisk Commercial Sea Port have been included in the list of companies to be privatised in 2020 to 2022, the Economy Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Royal Mail was privatised four years ago and is one of the few big British companies to still have a defined-benefit pension scheme, which pays out a proportion of a member's final salary determined by length of service.
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Nariman Mannapbekov, the Asian Development Bank's country manager for Azerbaijan, said that "according to my information, there is no plan to privatise IBA this year" and that the chance IBA will be privatised within two years "is very small".
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MELBOURNE, May 24 (Reuters) - Australia's biggest power distributors on Wednesday won a court fight that could earn them close to A$3 billion ($2.2 billion) more in revenue over five years, boosting the prospects of recently privatised Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy.
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While the SNCF's debt is bigger than that of a small country such as Iceland or Croatia, it is in line with the debt of rail networks in places such as Britain, where rail services were privatised in the 1990s.
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On Friday, the Treasury said it would decide by the end of this year which state-owned companies would be privatised or closed after warnings by S&P, Moody's and Fitch that their reliance on state bailouts posed a major risk.
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Founder and public face Chen Feng — a Buddhist with a taste for luxury cars — and the chairman of the board, Wang Jian, own about 15 per cent each after many years of complex asset reshuffles that effectively privatised the firm.
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Shares in the group, which was partly privatised in 2015, ended up 2.6 percent at 8.36 euros and the CEO said it was up to the treasury to decide whether it wanted to increase Poste's capital listed on the market.
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LJUBLJANA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Slovenia's largest bank Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB) which is due to be privatised, said on Friday its first-half group net profit fell 13 percent as provisions against bad loans declined less sharply than a year earlier.
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Around two-fifths were carried over to the privatised firm, which has added more through the reallocation of existing unused slots, purchases in the secondary market and, under IAG's wing, the acquisition in 20193 of BMI, a smaller British carrier.
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Kenya Airways was privatised more than 20 years ago but sank into debt and losses in 2014 after a failed expansion drive and is to be renationalised after Kenyan lawmakers voted in July to take back control of the airline.
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The court case comes ahead of the publication of a review into how Britain's privatised rail network should be run in future, following the failure of several high-profile rail contracts, and amid consumer complaints over strikes and poor service.
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The dire situation at SWR, which connects southern England to London, comes at a time of wider problems within Britain's privatised rail system, following the failure of several high-profile rail contracts and amid consumer complaints over strikes and poor service.
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The court case comes ahead of the publication of a review into how Britain's privatised rail network should be run in future, following the failure of several high-profile rail contracts, and amid consumer complaints over strikes and poor service.
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POSTAL SERVICE Labour wants to return Royal Mail, one of the worlds oldest postal services, to state control six years after the company was privatised, saying this was a "historic mistake" and that the company was sold off too cheaply.
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If HSH is privatised, it will have to leave the deposit protection scheme of the savings banks organisation with a grace period of two years and seek membership in the deposit insurance scheme of German private banks (Bundesverband deutscher Banken).
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Britain privatised its rail services in the 1990s, and the network is now run by several UK-listed transport companies, as well as state-owned European rail groups including Germany's Deutsche Bahn, Abellio from the Netherlands and Keolis, majority-owned by France's SNCF.
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The former telecoms monopoly, which has been based at the BT Centre, near St Paul's Cathedral and the London Stock Exchange in the City of London since it was privatised in 1984, said it would disclose details of its new headquarters shortly.
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Royal Mail, privatised four years ago, is one of the few big British firms still to have a defined-benefit pension scheme, which pays out a proportion of a member's final salary depending on how long employees have paid in to the scheme.
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The finance ministry and state-run Kuwait Petroleum Corporation are studying which sectors and services may be privatised, Undersecretary Khalifa Hamada told reporters at a news conference in Kuwait City, adding any moves would focus on oil services companies and not production.
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The company, which was privatised by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government in 1984, said it could fund the 25 billion to 30 billion pound cost of building a full-fibre network by issuing debt, reallocating capex, disposing assets, and by cutting its dividend.
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Royal Mail, the British postal service privatised in 2013, said it was one of only a few major companies that still had employees in a defined benefit scheme, a type of pension that pays out according to final salary and length of service.
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Indicated unchanged Rhoen Klinikum is likely to reach the upper end of its 2017 operating profit guidance range thanks to the resolution of a dispute with the state of Hesse about the financing of two privatised clinics, CEO Stephan Holzinger told Welt am Sonntag.
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Bolsonaro, who was elected last year on an economic platform that included aggressive pro-market reforms and privatizations, met with Eletrobras' Chief Executive Officer Wilson Ferreira Jr on Thursday, sending the company's share price to a record high on hopes it might be privatised.
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JERUSALEM, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The newly privatised Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has won approval from Israel's securities regulator for a deal to sell nearly 23.6584 percent of the exchange to investment fund Manikay Partners and another 19 percent to four other foreign investors.
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BAKU, March 17 (Reuters) - State-owned International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) will need more government aid to clean up its balance sheet and is unlikely to be privatised as envisaged under a 13 rescue plan for at least two years, an official and experts said.
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Along with his predecessor as PM, Bob Hawke, Mr Keating floated the Australian dollar, abolished import quotas, slashed tariffs, deregulated the financial sector, privatised state-owned enterprises, overhauled the tax code and did away with country-wide wage accords in favour of company-by-company "enterprise bargaining".
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In a letter to lawmakers who had questioned whether the company shouldn't remain in public hands, Kamp noted that the government had already ordered Eneco to split into a grid company, Stedin, which will stay government-owned and a generation company, Eneco, which can be privatised.
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Royal Mail, which was privatised in 2013, said the wholesale price changes were designed to support the sustainability of the Universal Service - its obligation to deliver to all UK destinations for the same charge - as competitors cherry picked profitable urban areas for end-to-end delivery.
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AMSTERDAM, Aug 25 (Reuters) - SNS Bank, the largest financial services company remaining in hands of the Dutch state, on Thursday reported a fall in first half profits and said it would take two to three years to work out whether and how it should be re-privatised.
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In between lie privatised utilities that are subject to public regulation; or concessions where a private operator is asked to build, say, a hospital or airport terminal and then operate or manage it for a fixed period in return for the revenue it generates or an agreed fee.
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Di Maio also posted a video on his Facebook page on Saturday on the bridge collapse, saying the cost of toll roads in Italy had risen by 30% over 10 years and Atlantia's motorway unit had earned 10 billion euros since Italy privatised the road network in 1999.
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LJUBLJANA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Slovenia's largest bank Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB), which is due to be privatised next year, had a group net profit of 91.5 million euros ($97.45 million) in the first nine months of 2016, up by 18 percent compared with the same period in the previous year.
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Then he began importing Western goods and exporting oil, and founded his bank—classic oligarch gambits, though unlike others who earned that label, he did not take part in the loans-for-shares scheme of 1995-96, in which huge state assets were privatised for a song (though he tried to).
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Lendlease also has the largest senior living and retirement business in Australia by units and is a leading provider of privatised military housing in the US. Well-Diversified Business: Lendlease's business includes residential and infrastructure development, construction and investment management, with its main operations in Australia, the UK, the US and Asia.
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The Zurich airport operator lost out to India's Adani in a race for facilities being privatised in the south Asian country, but a spokeswoman told Schweiz am Wochenende that Flughafen Zuerich continues to be focused on international projects in Latin America and Asia, where the company just opened an office in Kuala Lumpur.
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The question is less why there was so much graft in the first place as why it has gone on for so long in aviation, when it has long been dealt with in other industries Air India, which is currently being privatised by the Indian government, seems to be trying to clean up its act.
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Built in the 2304.5000s, Egbin has a generating capacity of 1,320 MW, enough to provide a third of Nigeria's electricity, and yet it is now producing just 606 MW. Nigeria's Sahara Group, which with South Korea's KEPCO bought a 70 percent stake in Egbin when it was privatised in 2013, has plans to double its capacity.
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