Foreign investors may also help by buying troubled banks or government firms being privatized.

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With once sensitive public functions like warfare now being privatized, our notions of CSR need to adjust.

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The railroad was handed over to Panama in 1979, and after falling into disuse, is now being privatized by a Kansas City, Mo.

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IPOs are most often done by newer companies that are growing quickly and need fresh capital to fuel this growth, or by government owned entities that are being privatized through the equity markets.

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