Strictly speaking privatization refers to the transfer of assets owned by the state to some form of private ownership, although it has been used more widely to denote any transfer of economic activity to the private sector, such as ‘contracting...

Privatization is particularly identified with the brand of conservatism favoured by the former British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher (see Thatcherism). However, during the 1980s similar policies were adopted in many countries throughout the world,...

This movement, initiated and supported primarily by economists, peaked in the early 1980s. Public ownership of land was inefficient because the administration of the lands was removed from the incentives and discipline of the free market. The case...

The sale of publicly owned assets, especially industrial capital, to private investors. Many countries in the 1980s undertook this kind of reduction of the public sector to achieve a variety of aims: to improve industry by freeing it from bureaucratic...

Privatization/Privatisation (alternately "denationalization/denationalisation" or "disinvestment") is the transfer of ownership from the public sector (government) to the private sector (business). A transfer in the opposite direction could be referred...

ON THE ISSUES PRIVATIZATION Wednesday, December 10, 2003 A weekly look at where Milwaukee mayoral candidates stand on issues facing the city. The primary election is Feb. 17. The general election is April 6. BACKGROUND: To deal with budget problems,...

The last two decades have seen a sea change in the provision of public services across the Western world and more recently, thanks to structural adjustment, across the Majority World too. The private ownership of public assets are at the core of economic...

"A baby's groin is usually the last thing parents think about, so when there's a problem, they're pretty frightened," says Charles Shubin, M.D., director of pediatrics at Mercy FamilyCare in Baltimore. The good news is that many conditions resolve on their own or require...

A surgeon faces a disciplinary hearing for snapping a photo of a patient's tattooed genitals during an operation and showing it around to other doctors.Mayo Clinic Hospital administrators said Dr. Adam Hansen, chief resident of general surgery, admitted taking the photo with his cell phone...