Privatisation has not been simply restricted to the leading capitalist economies: most
countries, irrespective of their size, ideology and level of economic development
(including China, Spain, Jamaica, France, South Africa), have experimented with various
forms of state divestment and deregulation and major privatisation programmes are
currently underway in the so-called transition economies. Students wishing to find
information on developments in a particular country can use as a starting point the very