Privatisation in a sentence

In middle 1993, the committee announced a two-year privatisation programme, whose first stage would be privatisation of 30% of state enterprises, mostly services and light industries.

Because, then as now, privatisation was hugely unpopular.

Earlier, PPP Senator Raza Rabbani had also opposed PIA’s privatisation in all its forms and said: “It seems questionable that PIA planes were functioning normally when the fuel supply was abruptly halted and then resumed.

For me, the privatisation was not structurally done properly.

GMB national officer Gary Carter said: “In the 40 years since privatisation we’ve seen virtually no investment, systematic asset stripping and billions of public money drained from the system to fill already bulging shareholder and fat cat coffers.

Having comrades like Derek Hanekom heading SAA’s board might indicate the ANC realises privatisation is a pipe dream…meaning more bailout pain for taxpayers.

How much did HH get from the privatisation deals?

In September, the incoming culture secretary said she would "re-examine the business case" for privatisation.

Mr Lynch said: “The Government is keeping privatisation afloat regardless of the cost to the rail passengers, rail workers and the taxpayer and the service itself.

Ms Truss will use the group’s annual Margaret Thatcher Lecture to claim that the 1980s “Anglo-American” economic model of increased privatisation and small government is being “strangled into stagnation”.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would continue with the privatisation plan during his leadership campaign last year.

Privatisation of copper mines led to loss of government revenues.

Privatisation will make the trains increasingly inaccessible in less profitable or remote rural communities, since private firms are unlikely to generate profits from such locations.

She added: “Policies like the grossly iniquitous poll tax and the great privatisation rip-off offs were the hallmarks of Thatcherism.

Skyrocketing power bills are a direct result of the privatisation madness undertaken by Geoff Provest and his boss Dominic Perrottet.

The House recalled that in line with the Privatisation Act, the FG sought and got a Federal High Court order to liquidate Osogbo Steel Rolling Company and other Steel rolling mills in 2005.

They turn to marketisation, which is odd given the basis for the recent quarrel with Chancellor Bermudez—since it represents the privatisation of education.

This is happening despite the privatisation of 11 electricity distribution companies and six generating companies, with the federal government retaining 100 per cent ownership of TCN.

When expenditures exceed revenue, as is often the case, deficits arise which can be financed through any or a combination of foreign and domestic borrowing, privatisation proceeds, project-tied loans, grants and other related means.

You also have unprecedented communal polarisation and the privatisation of violence.