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JUN 26, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatizing Eastern Germany: A Report from the Treuhand

Founded in East Germany in March 1990, the Treuhandanstalt had facilitated the privatization of over 7,000 enterprises by June 1992 and generated revenues of $17.5 billion and investment pledges ...

MAY 12, 1992 Article

Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points after 75 Years

Although much of Wilson's thinking is still relevant, he in no way anticipated "such horrors as the Holocaust, or the famine in Somalia, or the ...

MAY 8, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Is Privatization a Solution to the Urban Crisis?

For society to benefit from the deep-seated desire to fulfill human needs, it is the responsibility of government to unleash ownership and channel it to ...

APR 7, 1992 Article

Whose Environmental Standards? Clarifying the Issues of Our Common Future

At this first meeting of the U.S.-Japan Task Force on the Environment, 34 international environment specialists, political scientists, U.S.-Japan policy analysts, and ...

APR 6, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): From "Confusion Economics" to a Market Economy: The Only Way for Sweden

Sweden must implement radical economic changes. Obstacles to foreign investment, government regulations, state-owned companies, monopolies and discriminatory policies against small businesses must be removed.

MAR 20, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization: Misconceptions, Glib Answers, and Lessons

Privatization is changing the face of the world and, "just as we must rethink what we used to assume about the extent and importance of ...

FEB 28, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization: Opportunities for New York

"What is amazing is that this country, which was the teacher of the world on what private individuals can do, has become the student."

JAN 31, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization in the United States

"Opposition to privatization is entrenched on Capitol Hill, and those that are threatened by privatization lobby very hard to retain their priviliged position."

OCT 1, 1991 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization in the Republic of Russia

"Since the course of the Russian government is the integration of our economy into that of the worlds', our rules must be compatible with the ...

SEP 20, 1991 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): An Assessment of Privatization in the U.K.: Mistakes, Successes, and Future Prospects

"No one should underestimate the extent to which political will, commitment, and singlemindedness was needed to implement the British privatization program."