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Ever since Britain began its large-scale privatization program in the early 1980s, the world has experienced a change in paradigm that has allowed governments to use privatization as an instrument of public policy. By now, most governments have taken advantage of this new instrument and have divested or are currently in the process of divesting a large portion of their public assets.
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Schipke, A. (2001). Summary and Conclusion. In: Why Do Governments Divest?. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56682-0_8
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