And those sold have not been the kind of large enterprises that have formed the core of Britain's privatization drive.
Although Eastern European governments are now engaged in the most ambitious privatization drive ever, until recently they paid scant attention to the environmental variable.
Yet streamlining may be of little long-term use unless Rome presses ahead with its privatization drive.
Foreign investment in the privatization drive was, he stressed, welcome.
At the same time, the privatization drive both in agriculture and industry would flag.
Macquarie bankers had been advising the Australian government on the sale of public assets when it started a privatization drive in the early 1990's.
Mansha's conglomerate greatly benefited from the privatization drive of the 1990s.
The committee believes that the South African government's privatization drives will worsen the situation.
Instead, Mr. Bush's privatization drive flopped so badly that the topic has almost disappeared from national discussion.
The region's privatization drive is likely to last a decade or more.