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Brazil has 138 federally-owned companies—and the government wants to privatize every single one of them. But only 17 percent of Brazilians support the idea. Guests: Sandro Cabral, head of the Master’s Degree in Public Policies at São Paulo’s Insper Business School; and former Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles.
The privatization of state-owned telecommunication companies created competition in the sector—and popularized telephones. But privatization remains a dirty word in Brazil.
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