Given the political and economic muscle the state-run corporations wield, local rivals are easily squashed.

Mr. Chiluba has pledged to dismantle state-run corporations and introduce private enterprise and market economics.

It is a state-run corporation with headquarters at Patiala.

Environmentalists say the Government's entry into the sector in the 1980's, when state-run corporations took over the felling of timber, has fed corruption.

However, JNR was not a state-run corporation; its accounting was independent from the national budget.

NJ Transit is a state-run corporation that began with the consolidation of several private bus companies in North Jersey.

Malawi has been urged by world financial bodies to free up its economy, and has it has privatised many loss-making state-run corporations.

They and their colleagues are also being ejected from the board rooms of large state-run corporations.

Until now, Egypt has been slow to dismantle its enormous state-run corporations and a monolithic civil service.

Unlike other state-run corporations, the television company was allowed by the Government of Pakistan to raise a sizable amount of private capital to finance the stations.