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AllAfrica.com
April 8, 2018
The narratives and experiences from women in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Liberia all echo and reverberate to a .... Ostrom challenged the assumption that common property is poorly managed unless regulated by government or privatised, and proved thatÃâà...
SFGate
April 7, 2018
... for a decade and a half has prompted a plethora of market-friendly candidates openly advocating previously taboo ideas such as privatization. ... As he cites Brazil's ranking in 153rd place out of 180 countries - behind Malawi, Sierra Leone and neighboring Argentina - he cringes slightly, laments, andÃâà...
RS-NEWS
April 2, 2018
Back in history, British Airways which was a conventional government airline privatized in 1997. Similarly, the Malawi government made three attempts to privatize its national airline, Air Malawi. In 2013 Air Malawi was finally shut down and a privately owned Malawi Airlines was created. Air Jamaica, anÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 30, 2018
Seven back-to-back major malfeasant transactions totaling a staggering $3 billion (Rs 200 billion) by shifty enterprises since February 14 when the country's biggest Rs 140-billion fraud by billionaire Diamantaire Nirav Modi came to light have triggered calls for privatization of the 21 government banksÃâà...
Task & Purpose
March 26, 2018
Jerry and Francie then spent a few uneventful years in Malawi before Bremer was rotated back to work at the Pentagon in the National Military Command ..... remake the stock market, privatize the economy, and contend with what he called the “8000-mile screwdriver” wielded by Beltway bureaucrats.
The Punch
March 25, 2018
THE Bureau of Public Enterprises recently admitted that over 30 per cent of state firms unloaded unto private hands have failed or are failing. But this is a generous self-appraisal; by the reckoning of the National Assembly, 70 to 80 per cent of them have buckled or are failing. Privatisation, however, is aÃâà...
ATWOnline
March 13, 2018
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr has spoken out against Europe's airports, saying that privatization was a “big mistake.” “The problem is, in Europe, our major airports have been privatized and that was a big mistake,” Spohr said, speaking at the recent Airlines for Europe (A4E) Aviation Summit in Brussels.
AllAfrica.com
March 5, 2018
They cajoled reluctant presidents to privatise State-owned enterprises, reduce social spending -- especially in education and health -- free prices and ... They fight for independent judges, but in Kenya, Malawi, Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa and elsewhere, presidents regularly disobey court ordersÃâà...
McKnight's Long Term Care News
February 20, 2018
Michigan is laying the groundwork to privatize its $2.8 billion Medicaid nursing home and long-term care services. A brief proposal included in the state's 2017-2018 budget calls on the Department of Health and Human Services to “explore the implementation of a managed care long-term support service"Ãâà...
Phys.Org
February 19, 2018
The traditional model of water governance through state or public water utilities, and the market based privatisation of water supplies that gained momentum in the early ... Water boards in Malawi started working with community-elected water user associations in informal settlements in the mid-2000s.
Slate Magazine
February 15, 2018
On the basis of no new analyses, no new data and no new pressing issues to be addressed, the leaked draft Recommendation seeks to fully privatise the ... The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority announced in June 2017 that it would become mandatory for mobile phone users to register theirÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
February 8, 2018
Citigroup expects 2018 to be its best year for investment banking in the Middle East and Africa in at least a decade, likely led by Saudi Arabia, a senior executive at the US bank said. Last month, Citigroup had said it had won formal approval from Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority to begin anÃâà...
The Maravi Post
February 1, 2018
“The council is engaged in talks with some private firms in a bid to privatise solid waste management in the city under the public-private-partnership arrangement,” Kanjunjunju says. He adds that the council is seeking funds from donor partners towards cleaning up the city's major rivers, and streams, whichÃâà...
Nyasa Times
February 1, 2018
“The council is in talks with some private firms to privatise solid waste management under this public-private partnership,” he said. BCC is seeking funds from development partners towards cleaning up the city's major rivers and streams which are polluted with sewage, garbage and chemicals from factories.
AgriCensus
January 17, 2018
Saudi Arabia is expected to announce the sales process for privatising part of its flour milling sector in the second quarter of the year, according to a statement from HSBC bank, which is advising on the sale. The announcement is expected to include the timetable for qualifying investors and the launch ofÃâà...
Zimbabwe Independent
January 11, 2018
Parastatals earmarked for privatisation include the Cold Storage Company (CSC), National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), Forestry Commission of ... stake in Dairibord of Malawi, a move which indicated that struggling state enterprises could be transformed into profit-spinning firms through privatisation.
Al-Arabiya
October 18, 2017
Saudi Postal was transferring its central distribution centers to the kingdom's three international airports in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. (Supplied). Reuters, Riyadh Wednesday, 18 October 2017. Text size A A A. The head of Saudi Arabia's government-owned postal service said on Wednesday theÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
October 11, 2017
Saudi Arabia's deputy electricity minister said on Wednesday he hoped for progress next year in privatizing the power sector including the unbundling of ... Awaji said factors impacting privatization included the Citizens Account a government plant to compensate low- to medium-income citizens - andÃâà...
NewsClick
September 17, 2017
A spate of privatisation measures is reportedly imminent, with the Niti Aayog even suggesting a withdrawal of the government from the sphere of healthcare. ... In Malawi, as in most other third world countries, peasants have traditionally stored their seeds from the previous harvest for their next planting, andÃâà...
Hindu Business Line
September 5, 2017
The Malawi Government made three attempts at privatising its national airline. The first, in 2003, failed because the successful bidder failed to make a security bond. The second attempt didn't materialise in 2007, because of differences with the biggest bidder. But in 2013, Ethiopian Airlines made a successÃâà...
Hindu Business Line
September 5, 2017
The Malawi Government made three attempts at privatising its national airline. The first, in 2003, failed because the successful bidder failed to make a security bond. The second attempt didn't materialise in 2007, because of differences with the biggest bidder. But in 2013, Ethiopian Airlines made a successÃâà...
Nyasa Times
June 28, 2017
“So, those who work at the mortuary buy their own drugs for embalming and charge individuals seeking such services,” he said. Malawi Health Equity Network (Mhen) executive director George Jobe said his organisation has observed that some public hospitals in the country charge a fee for such services.
JSTOR Daily
May 15, 2017
Private prisons are, in theory, a practical solution to a thorny problem. The state has too many prisoners and not enough prisons. The public sector is unable or unwilling to build more. Private companies step in and earn revenue per prisoner to maintain and run the facilities. The system minimizesÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
“We intend to ensure the efficient management of the infrastructure of Mozambican airports and attract foreign airlines,” Mesquita reportedly said. The minister added that the measure also falls within the context of restructuring state companies in response to the current economic situation in the country.
MENAFN.COM
December 31, 1999
Neoliberalism and the privatisation impetus, imposed by the World Bank and the IMF, robbed Malawi of its once thriving bookshops. This affected not only the availability but also the quality of reading material Malawians have access to. You can't have a thriving writing culture when you don't have a thrivingÃâà...
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