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Economic activity by the state — other than the core activity undertaken by the Civil Service — takes a range of forms which defy easy categorisation. Whereas a public corporation (or a limited company in which the state is a majority shareholder) can clearly be classified as being within the public sector, there have often been grey areas resulting from minority government shareholdings, ‘golden shares’, and changing accounting rules over the raising of private capital.
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© 2000 David Butler and Gareth Butler
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Butler, D., Butler, G. (2000). The Public Sector. In: Twentieth-Century British Political Facts 1900–2000. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62733-2_12
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