US pushes for early privatisation in Iraq

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday June 17, 2003 18:34 by had a child a year ago and just moved house

Baghdad: The US-led coalition plans to privatise the first of Iraq's 100 or so state-owned firms within a year as it begins overhauling the centralised economy of Saddam Hussein without waiting for a new government, a top US official said Thursday.

According to Tim Carney, senior adviser to the Iraqi ministry of industry and minerals "Privatisation is the right direction for 21st century Iraq,"
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