The agency that now regulates the state-owned firms, called the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, should "confine itself to policy-making and oversight, " the report recommended, not management.
Its largest shareholder (55%) is the Shenzhen City SASAC (State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission).
France is lucky because some of its biggest state-owned assets are utilities, now much favoured by investors.
The duo had co-founded oil giant Sibneft in 1990s Russia, when the privatization of former state-owned assets made both men very rich.
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The first is that, because they raise such a lot of money, auctions must be a brilliant way of selling state-owned assets.
On May 23rd it announced plans to speed up the sale of state-owned assets, including its telephone company, post office and ports.
Auctions are a good way of selling state-owned assets, for several reasons.
Southern Weekly reported the news, and suspected the SASAC (state-owned assets supervision and administration commission) policies for punishment and the central corporate nominating system were to blame.
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When countries get an international bailout, they are often expected to contribute to the solution by raising funds themselves, usually by increasing taxes or selling state-owned assets.
Corruption is a problem throughout virtually the entirety of post-Communist Europe due, in large part, to unavoidable problems associated with the rapid privatization of previously state-owned assets.
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Ownership could be challenged, but critics worry that it would be difficult to do so for former state-owned assets or for land-use rights that had been sold off in shady deals.
According to the Straits Times newspaper, the Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Company has said that the giant metal nest is raking in tens of millions of dollars each year from tourism.
Drawing from international experience, the World Bank suggested that China could raise contribution rates, or use general revenues or dedicated social security taxes to cover contingent liabilities, in addition to direct transfers of state-owned assets.
But they allege that he together with other investors illegally possessed state-owned assets and used the assets to invest in a shell company they had established, in order to acquire shares at Salt Lake Industry Group.
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Three-quarters of the top 100 made their money in property or at the head of sprawling conglomerates, reflecting the fact that the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs used their government connections to grab state-owned assets at fire-sale prices.
By making efficiency savings in government and selling state-owned assets, Mr Brown said he could meet debt-cutting targets and he said it would be "fine" if certain programmes - relating to what he described as back-office and administrative functions - were cut.
China's biggest state-owned lender by assets, set up a fund for customers to invest in high-end pu'er tea, marketing it as a low-risk investment.
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Under Korean law, any auction of a state-owned company's assets must attract at least two bidders before it can proceed.
Under the law in South Korea, any auction of a state-owned company's assets must attract at least two bidders before the sale can go forward.
Yet, in recent years, acquisitions of American energy-related assets by state-owned oil firms such as Saudi Arabia's Aramco and Venezuela's PDVSA failed to elicit so much as a murmur.
It included Dr Mahathir's son, who recently sold assets to the state-owned oil company, a deal attacked as a bail-out tainted by nepotism.
State-owned banks control 75% of total banking assets, a share second only to that of China (83%) among the large developing economies.
Yukos Oil has been broken up and sold to Russian state owned energy companies, with the bulk of those assets acquired at a discount by Rosneft, the largest oil company in Russia.
And as for that wider population: does the imprisonment of the mighty Quinn and the faltering recovery of those international assets that now belong to the state-owned bank, bring catharsis, the healing and purging of emotions that the Greek writers would have liked?
State-owned PetroVietnam plans to keep buying foreign oil and gas assets.
When combined with the original state-owned firms that Indonesia still promises to privatise, these assets offer the government a golden opportunity to reshape the economy.
In a report on India's economy, the consultancy points out that 43% of India's capital stock is owned by the state, and that the productivity of these assets is well below the Indian average (see chart).
Sixteen of the 41 Chinese companies on the list are owned by an arm of the government dedicated to managing state assets.
In 11 years at the helm, Kamath, 60, has with clever strategizing built ICICI into India's most valuable bank--ahead of government-owned State Bank of India, the country's largest in assets.
The industry remains tightly controlled by the government and dominated by inefficient state-owned banks, which control 75% of the country's total banking assets.
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