Not exact matches
Yet
privatisation has in
general failed to improve the level of services provided to consumers while costing the taxpayer far more
than alternative
public schemes (see for example Warwick Funnell, Robert Jupe, and Jane Andrew, In Government we Trust).
The reformers at the time undertook this through the means of a voucher
privatisation scheme, wherein vouchers for shares in more
than 15,000
public - sector firms were freely distributed to 98 per cent of the
general Russian
public.