That is why we have so much hope for reprivatization."

A significant barrier to reprivatization is created by larger political questions, which vary by country.

Of course we can see the problems that arise with reprivatization, just as they do with privatization.

Criteria for Private Ownership "Reprivatization does not mean the owners must be physical persons," he said.

"They can be agencies or funds, as often in the West, and we might create a special agency, a plenipotentiary, and create criteria for reprivatization."

But his is one of 17,000 reprivatization requests by former owners or their heirs for companies or parts of companies.

The survivors maintain that Poland's reprivatization laws discriminate against Holocaust victims and their heirs.

There are still unresolved questions connected with reprivatization and the moratorium, but I have no doubt they will be solved after the elections of 10 November.

Mr. Whalen says President Salinas's bank reprivatization limits ownership "to a maximum 5 percent."

Conflict and Social Determinism: The Reprivatization of Education.

Stagecoach Portugal had its origins in the reprivatization of Portuguese bus and coach operation, which had been nationalized after the 1974 Revolution.

Outstanding reprivatization issues can sometimes be a barrier to foreign investment, as investors are wary of investing in a property to which the title is disputed or faulty.

Reprivatization refers to the process of restoring to its former owners properties seized by a government, or to the process of compensating previously uncompensated former owners.

Speedier Process Urged For now, though, reprivatization is proceeding too slowly, said Tyll Necker, the former president of the German Industry Association.

An uncle in Schwerin, a port city west of Rostock, recently got back a clothing shop under eastern Germany's process of property reprivatization, but efforts to revive it are foundering.

These data tend to support the charges by critics that many individual capitalists were the direct beneficiaries of the reprivatization program and that government policies beneficial to private-sector interests mostly favored the rich.

In the year before reprivatization, over 2500 workers had volunteered for redundancy and the very large Hebburn Yard had been abandoned, despite an occupation by workers of all the Tyne yards.

Like Yushchenko, he is a supporter of economic liberalization and privatisation, but opposed "reprivatization" of previously sold companies that were thought to have been privatized illegally under the administration of President Leonid Kuchma.

Most candidates for reprivatization are small and medium-sized businesses that employ a handful to 500 workers and produce a wide array of specialized products requiring the handiwork and technical precision for which German craftsmen are renowned.

"The 34 percent reprivatization which the Federal Government is offering in the banks is not sufficient," Bernardo Ardavin, president of the Mexican Employers' Confederation, a major business group, said in a statement issued earlier this month.

The Government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl agreed recently to alter major points in its policy, reversing a pledge not to raise taxes to finance the east's recovery and agreeing to overhaul the way it interprets property reprivatization rules, which were threatening to stifle new investment.

Before being appointed by Benigno Aquino III to the Public Works and Highways secretary post, Singson is the incumbent president and Chief Executive Officer of Maynilad after its reprivatization from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2010.

But unlike Poland and Czechoslovakia, where similar reprivatization is under way, Germany bowed to heavy public pressure and ruled that all properties would be restored to those who suffered losses between Jan. 30, 1933, and May 5, 1945, on grounds of "race, politics, religion or philosophical outlook."

In early 2006, the national Ministry of Planning considered taking control of the company to arrange its reprivatization, but the provincial government of Felipe Solá refused to allow this to happen, arguing that under provincial state control the company was working very efficiently and with low fares .

The chief members of the Government's new economic team, non-Communists for the first time in four decades, wasted no time in pledging drastic cuts in Government spending, immediate price deregulation and measures to smash the state economic monopoly by reprivatization - all measures they said would bring pain before relief.