But even if the Greek parliament adopts the new austerity measures - tax rises, spending cuts and privatisation - necessary to get that 12bn euros, it will only bring temporary relief.
The disinvestment minister Arun Shourie kick-started the privatisation of government-owned companies by divesting 25% of the government stakes in car maker Maruti Udyog in June last year.
In 2006 he beat the PSDB's Geraldo Alckmin, in part by portraying him as pro-privatisation (which is almost as unpopular in Brazil as being pro-choice).
His hasty mass-privatisation programme, which made ordinary Czechs the formal owners of most enterprises but gave control to state-owned banks with no interest in improving them, created a crisis that culminated in a humiliating devaluation of the currency in May last year.
It was also helped by falling interest rates, and by the reductions in public-sector debt made possible by the huge privatisation revenues of 1996-98.
And there is no doubt that much of the policies adopted by Tony Blair since the election - on privatisation, law and order and elements of social security spending - could have come from Tory ministers.
The prolonged saga of the semi-privatisation of London's underground shows no sign of being resolved.
Part-privatisation and competition created in a short time what decades of industrial policy had failed to do.
Trade union reform, privatisation, de-regulation and reduction of income tax rates were all achieved under her leadership.
And it also allows pro-privatisation politicians to claim that today's contributors are not getting their money's worth.
The charges against him centre on the allegedly fraudulent part-privatisation in 1994 of Apatit, a fertiliser company.
Conservative leader David Cameron said his party would support the government's part-privatisation plan, which they believed was "right".
The Conservatives welcomed the recommended part-privatisation of the Royal Mail, calling it a "step in the right direction".
Among his tasks in that role has been taking plans for the part-privatisation of Royal Mail through Parliament.
Although a wave of part-privatisation is promised, the government has been going in the opposite direction, buying out Western shareholders in some Russian aerospace firms.
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Mr Prescott compared the top-up fees issue with the part-privatisation of air traffic control, which he said had faced backbench opposition in Parliament but had proved successful.
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Mr Kolesnikov is an ally of Mr Yanukovich, and of Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man, who jointly controls a big steel mill that is a candidate for re-privatisation.
LDP's anti-privatisation wing is making clever use of political judo.
Will part-privatisation of DB, planned for November, make much difference?
Margaret Thatcher tried out her hated poll tax there and that, plus the impact of privatisation and union-bashing on Scotland's industrial economy, turned off voters north of the border.
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He's referring to the fact that the huge post-privatisation task of improving the region's sewerage systems is basically complete and on the supply side, we are blessed with good reservoirs that are fortunately full.
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He said he was determined to "face up to the necessity of reform", an example of which is the part-privatisation of the National Air Traffic Control System (Nats) to be debated by the Commons on Tuesday.
The MD of one consultancy told us how its intelligence-gathering dissuaded a blue-chip British company from a potentially damaging investment in a corrupt privatisation in a south-east Asian country.
In France they are attacked for the opposite sins: ultra-liberalism, the dogmatic promotion of privatisation and addiction to laisser-faire economics.
KfW backs export-oriented firms and small businesses, lending at low rates, and deals with the privatisation of German state-owned enterprises.
The long-running privatisation of telecoms company Telstra is also a divisive issue for the government as support for it remaining in state-hands comes from the conservative heartland in country areas.
These have proved controversial, with critics - including some Lib Dems - warning of "back-door privatisation".
In large-scale privatisation, we have been quite generous: we give them 25% of shares, free, though without voting rights.
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At the king's behest, Mr Rawabdeh promised to reform the administration, fight corruption and press on with Jordan's long-delayed privatisation drive.
However another lobbyist, Richard Tren of the Sustainable Development Network, says that properly-regulated privatisation is better than centralised government water distribution.
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