How can leaders promote privatisation?
In both Sri Lanka and the UK (and elsewhere) successful privatisation programmes were never undertaken piecemeal. They were never presented as one-off divestitures designed to solve a single problem with a single PSE. Instead privatisation was presented as a thorough and consistent process guaranteeing economic growth. This is important for several reasons, chiefly that if each privatisation appears to be a unique remedy then every subsequent privatisation meets consistently strong opposition. Win the overall argument and each divestiture becomes easier. This requires a consistent, strong and relentless public information campaign.
