The paragraph below is quoted from the web page of a typical developing government following the Washington concensus and underlines the Privatization dogma "In addition, the Government is in process of preparing the privatization file for a number of sectors such as telecommunications and electricity, a move which is expected to render the divested sectors more productive providing better quality services at a lower price, in addition to attracting foreign technology and generating an important source of revenues to partially pay up the public debt." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/