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Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or disinvestment ) is the process of transferring property from public ownership to private ownership and/or transferring the management of a service or activity from the government to the private sector. Privatisation can be partial or complete. It may also carry conditions as to the change in ownership.

The reverse process is nationalization or municipalization.

The term was coined in 1948 and is thought to have been popularized by The Economist during the 1980s.

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@hwhitehead I was saddened by Hillary's speech from Copenhagen? The US is trying to mandate privatization of other countries water supply.
AmericanArtists (American ArtistGuild) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:42:10 -0000
@hwhitehead I was saddened by Hillary's speech from Copenhagen? The US is trying to mandate privatization of other countries water supply.
China Privatization Toll- Plant Manager Killed In China By Rioting Workers http://tinyurl.com/yjzmr5c
PMPA_ORG (Miles Free) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:30:39 -0000
China Privatization Toll- Plant Manager Killed In China By Rioting Workers http://tinyurl.com/yjzmr5c
Time to stop talk about LCBO privatization: - http://gclink.us/xac6v/ #comrade
GlobalCommunist (Global Communist) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:20:01 -0000
Time to stop talk about LCBO privatization: - http://gclink.us/xac6v/ #comrade
Opponents of Jail Privatization Plans Are Trying to Intimidate Freeholders http://bit.ly/4L4NJX
ClearysNoteBook (William E. Cleary Sr) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:01:57 -0000
Opponents of Jail Privatization Plans Are Trying to Intimidate Freeholders http://bit.ly/4L4NJX
#Tymoshenko pays lip service to #Ukraine's giant income distribution gap; recalls the voucher privatization (grabitization) of the 90s
Ukroblogger (Taras Kyiv) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:40:42 -0000
#Tymoshenko pays lip service to #Ukraine's giant income distribution gap; recalls the voucher privatization (grabitization) of the 90s
Privatization - Chile - Peru's Graña y Montero eyes public works concessions industry: Peruvian construction fi.. http://bit.ly/50W1IB
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Privatization - Chile - Peru's Graña y Montero eyes public works concessions industry: Peruvian construction fi.. http://bit.ly/50W1IB

 
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404 Center for Competitive Government - A Temple University program engaged in and promoting the study of important topics in privatization. Includes conferences, publications, and working papers. Formerly the Privatization Research Center.

Charity and Volunteerism - Information about the creation of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, a program designed to privatize some social services by using nonprofit organizations. Provided by the Almanac of Policy Issues, a project of Policy News Publishing.
Meta Description: [ News, background information and links on public policy affecting charities and volunteerism. ]

Grandfather State and Local Government Report - A chapter of Grandfather Economic Reports, in which Michael Hodges explores the rapid expansion of state and local government.

How and Why to Privatize Federal Lands - Policy analysis by Cato Institute describes failures of the government to provide good land stewardship, criteria for reform efforts, and a blueprint for auctioning off all public lands over 20 to 40 years. Published December 1999.
Meta Description: [ Promoting an American public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peaceful international relations. Extensive library of studies, articles and monographs available ]

Idea House: Privatization - Lists innovations, deterrents, possible candidates, and worldwide and domestic results. Published by National Center for Public Policy.

Is It Time to Privatize the Postal Service? - Excerpts of remarks made by participants at a Cato Institute conference on this issue held in June 1999.
Meta Description: [ Promoting an American public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peaceful international relations. Extensive library of studies, articles and monographs available ]

Michigan Privatization Report - Quarterly periodical of articles and book reviews, addressing topics such as the Michigan Civilian Conservation Corps, notable attempts at privatization, outsourcing, and the public schools in Grand Rapids. Provided by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Meta Description: [ Privatization with liberty and free markets is sound public policy for Michigan. ]

PB - Privatization Barometer - Examines privatization news in Europe and worldwide.

Privatization Center - Provides practical research and analysis, how-to guides, case studies, and reports designed to inform elected officials on how to streamline government. A project of the Reason Foundation.

Privatization.Org - Resource for information on government reform, privatization, contracting out, and public/private partnerships. Includes events, features, publications, privatization database, and service provider directory. Sponsored by the Reason Public Policy Institute.
Meta Description: [ Privatization.org is a program of Reason Foundation devoted to providing information on Privatization, Government Reform, Contracting Out, and Public/Private Partnerships. ]

Privatization: All in Favor of Privatization, Raise Your Hand - Articles and book reviews related to privatization in Michigan. Published by Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Spring 2002.
Meta Description: [ An article on liberty and free markets as sound public policy for Michigan. ]

PrivatizationLink - Marketing and information resource for current investment opportunities arising from privatization in developing countries and economies in transition. Sponsored by The World Bank Group.

Privatize the DMV - Report presents the case for privatizing the Department of Motor Vehicles, and gives working models in other states. Authored by Patrick Hazel; published by the Cascade Policy Institute in January, 1997.

Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) - Research unit focusing on privatization of public services in water, energy, waste management and healthcare, including the role of multinational companies and of international institutions, especially the EU and the World Bank.
Meta Description: [ PSIRU researches the privatisation and restructuring of public services around the world, with special focus on water, energy, waste management, and healthcare. It produces reports and maintains an extensive database on the multinational companies involved. ]

Setting the Privatization Record Straight - Policy commentary by Mackinac Center for Public Policy responds to several objections to education privatization. Published August 1999.
Meta Description: [ An article on liberty and free markets as sound public policy for Michigan. ]

STOP Privatization - Activist organization in the Philippines working against privatization. Includes positions, members, and photo gallery showing events in 2000.
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The Meaning of Privatization - Article by Paul Starr, a Princeton professor who generally opposes privatization, attempting to clarify its meaning as an idea, as theory and rhetoric, and as a political practice.

The Party of the First Part - Transcript of a Marx Brothers sketch from the film A Night At the Opera, used in a radio documentary to illustrate the problems of responsibility and contractual enforcement involved in government outsourcing.
Meta Description: [ Hey wait wait What does this say here? Oh thats the usual clause Thats in every contract That says If any of the parties participating in this contract is shown not to be in their right ]

Union Launches Anti-Privatization Campaign - Brief article describing the campaign by the American Federation of Government Employees to oppose privatization.

World Bank Group: Privatization Toolkits - Provides access to step-by-step guides to the privatization and regulation of infrastructure services.
Meta Description: [ World Bank/ International Finance Corporation complete guides to infrastructure privatization and infrastructure regulation: infrastructure concessions, case-by-case privatization, hiring and managing advisors, water and sanitation, solid waste management, public-private partnerships in highways,... ]

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