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DEC 10, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): The Politics of Russia's Privatization Program

The Russian privatization program is overtly political. To make privatization work, managers, local governments, and workers' collectives need incentives to push for it.

NOV 20, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Moving Municipal Services Into the Marketplace

"The antithesis of populism is when government taxes its citizens, takes money out of their pockets, and says it knows how to spend their money ...

OCT 20, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): The Case for Structural Reform Through Private Innovation

"America's future will tend inevitably and inexorably to reflect the quality or the absence of quality of our schools."

OCT 16, 1992 Article

The Politics and Ethics of Global Environmental Leadership

At this second U.S.-Japan Task Force seminar, delegates and observers of UNCED explored the underlying ethical concerns at Rio, points of convergence relating ...

OCT 5, 1992 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): The Role of Private Property in Development

"The word 'privatization' doesn't work when you're talking about the private rights of poor people. In my country the terminology's all wrong. It is associated ...

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.