From 1999, Gaddafi encouraged economic privatization, pan-African integration, and sought better relations with the West.

The other would attack the deficit, encourage privatization and impose efficiency on others.

In order to stimulate growth and encourage privatization, the Supreme Soviet on June 11 ordered a cut in income tax.

There are too many worrisome reports of programs to encourage privatization turning into boondoggles for contractors, or new anticorruption agencies dissolved or made toothless by those in power.

Iran's painful transition to a freer economy has brought protests over sharp increases in the cost of living and stirred criticism of a five-year plan designed to reduce Government control and encourage privatization.

City council shut down the latter commission in 2001, two years after the provincial government of Mike Harris changed the oversight of public utilities to encourage deregulation and privatization.

It also lays the groundwork for the reform of Russia's railways and encourages further privatization of state-owned enterprises, among other measures.

Protesters say a free trade area would make it harder for countries to regulate the environment and food safety and would encourage privatization of resources like water.

But propping up state-owned industries in Russia and Ukraine undercuts efforts by other United States agencies seeking to encourage privatization.

I wonder whether that can possibly be done if we encourage privatization to take over the public role.