11.   Azerbaijan will begin privatizing state enterprises with the distribution next month of vouchers for shares in businesses and banks, a news agency said Monday.

12.   Both Fernandez and Preval, who succeeded Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February, are planning to privatize state enterprises in order to attract foreign investors.

13.   Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have urged the Thai government to privatize state enterprises which they view as wasteful and inefficient.

14.   Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have urged the Thai government to privatize state enterprises that they view as wasteful and inefficient.

15.   Bucaram, true to his populist principles, has opposed efforts to privatize state enterprises.

16.   House deputies restricted the executive branch from using any expanded authority to cut state worker salaries, restructure labor laws and state pensions, or privatize state enterprises.

17.   In January, the government pledged to privatize nine enterprises.

18.   It gave workers at state and collective farms the right to sell or buy shares they got in their farms when the enterprises were privatized.

19.   President Leonid Kuchma signaled Saturday that foreign companies will be able to hold stakes in potentially lucrative pipelines and take part in privatizing energy enterprises.

20.   The Dominican president and his centrist party have been frustrated by an unyielding legislature in their attempts to reform the government and privatize public enterprises in this Caribbean country.