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The article explores the declining role of the Indian government in the business sector as more state-owned enterprises are going to be privatized. The share of income generated by state-owned companies dropped from 45 percent to 37 percent during the period from 2005 to 2017. In response, the government announced plans to privatize companies such as Air India. Critics have expressed concerns over the consequences of privatization.

The article focuses on why developed nations should consider selling state-owned assets. Topics include the privatization of real estate, the value of state-owned assets, and the public ownership of commercial assets. Information is provided on privatization investment by state-owned entities and public-private partnerships.

The article, part of a special section on the economic resurgence of Vietnam, reports on Vietnamese entrepreneurship and privatization of state-owned businesses, such as the Vinamilk dairy company. The privatization or "equitization" of other state firms is discussed, as is the birth of the stock market in 2000, and problems with corporate governance and accounting.

The article informs on the ongoing efforts of privatisation in India. It mentions about the plans of Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi to privatise state-owned corporate assets, with assets not being sold include power lines, natural-gas pipelines, and railway stations, and coal-mining projects, and airports.

The article discusses the move by the government of Egypt to stop privatizing state-owned enterprises.

Focuses on the impact of privatization of government business enterprises on the economy of Eastern European countries. Reaction of economists, aid specialists and financial consultants to privatization; Encouragement for the participation of western investment banks; Risks in venture capitalism.

Focuses on the reluctance of Eastern European companies to participate in the privatization of government business enterprises. Business concern for inflation rates; Business ventures with foreign partners; Government bureaucracy.

Focuses on the privatization of state-owned companies in Eastern Europe. Case study on privatization programs in Great Britain during the term of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Consideration for the characteristics and behavior of state enterprises; Impact of politics on economic policy.

The article discusses the Chinese government's reform to its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including in regard to Chinese state capitalism and the creation of new state-asset management companies. An overview of Chinese leaders' perspectives on privatisation in the country, including its impact on profit and the influence of foreign investors in Chinese businesses, is provided.

The article focuses on urban renewal within China in 2014. Topics include the implementation of local economic reforms in Chinese provinces, the privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and the calls for private capital funding of public infrastructure. Information is provided on Foshan, a manufacturing city in the province of Guangdong.

The article focuses on the privatization of Chinese state-owned businesses and the hidden costs of state capitalism. It states that China retains control over businesses it considers strategic, such as transport, telecommunication companies, and banking. It mentions joint ventures between private foreign companies and Chinese state-owned businesses, and comments on purely private companies. It talks about problems with corruption and graft in state-backed enterprises.

The article discusses Norway's economic policy in relation to the impact of falling oil prices on the country's petroleum industries. Topics include issues with state ownership of corporations and corporate culture, welfare state costs, and the status of Norway's fishing industry. The model of Sweden's economic privatisation is addressed.

Discusses controversy in Italy regarding the privatization of government-owned companies. The promotion of privatization as a solution to economic problems; The inflation of stock value by the government to generate revenue; Examples involving the sale of Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni and Banca Commerciale Italiana; Repercussions on the economy.

The article talks about Vietnam's plans to part privatise its State-owned enterprises, which account for a third of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), but aren't getting foreign investments.

The article focuses on the economic viability of state-controlled airlines in 2014. Topics include why some governments continue to prop up failing airlines, why the commercial airline Malaysia Airlines returned to full state-ownership on August 8, 2014, and the impact of privatization and liberalization on the airline industry.

The article focuses on the evolution of state capitalism. It talks about state-owned companies in Brazil, China and Russia in which the state is either a majority shareholder or owns a significant minority of shares. It mentions that privatization has mostly ceased in India and Brazil and comments on similarities of state-owned businesses to private corporations. It examines an increase in interventionism for state-owned businesses and warns that state capitalism could become crony capitalism.

The article focuses on why developed nation governments should consider privatizing government-owned real estate in 2014. Topics include the value of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in developed countries, the rate of real estate ownership by governments, and how governments could increase revenue from privatization.

The article focuses on Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' decision to close the state-owned television network ERT. Topics include the public's response to the closure, the success of economic reform in the country, and Greece's coalition government. Information is provided on the country's failure to meet goals regarding the sale of state assets.

The article focuses on the possible privatization of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a federally owned hydropower corporation, by the U.S. government. Topics include the de facto monopoly status of the TVA in 2013, the reduction of energy generation by coal power plants in the U.S., and the debt of the TVA in 2012.

The article examines China's economic policy. The financial crisis and global recession has slowed the country's effort to privatize most of its economy. Several private companies created from previously government-owned businesses have been forced to ask for government financial assistance. Ironically, these companies' stock prices often increase when the government intervenes in their finances.

Focuses on the possible privatization of Great Britain's Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC). Idea of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to raise capital from the private sector; How the CDC is run by Alan Gillespie who is changing the direction of the CDC; Mandate of the CDC, which was to invest agriculture in poor regions with a focus in Africa; Conflicting opinion between the management team of the CDC and government officials on what the primary focus of the CDC should be.

Reports on the success of the first auction of Czechoslovakia's state-owned businesses on January 6, 1991. Complications and difficulties faced by the country's privatization program; Strategy of selling small enterprises before divesting big industrial firms; Opposition of many of the state monopolies that own the small businesses.

The article states that privatizing thousands of firms through a give-away of shares is a necessary step for Russia. Most Russians support the idea of mass privatisation as a way to halt the plundering of state assets by privileged managers and bureaucrats left over from the communist era. And rapid privatisation should reduce the clout of President Boris Yeltsin's most powerful opponents, the bosses of big state-owned industries, who want to slow reform. Mass privatisation is bound to be messy. The alternative is worse. As long as most firms remain nominally in state hands, they sit like a dead weight on Russia's struggling economy. No government will have the will to shut down the thousands of firms that are insolvent.