පෞද්ගලීකරණය

**පෞද්ගලීකරණය** (En=Privatization) is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector (the state or government) to the private sector (businesses that operate for a private profit) or to private non-profit organizations. In a broader sense, privatization refers to transfer of any government function to the private sector - including governmental functions like revenue collection and law enforcement.

පෞද්ගලීකරණය යනු ව්‍යාපාරයක, ව්‍යවසායක, නියෝජිතායතනයක හෝ රාජ්‍ය සේවයක අයිතිය රාජ්‍ය අංශයෙන් (රාජ්‍ය හෝ රජය) පුද්ගලික අංශයට (පුද්ගලික ලාභයක් සඳහා ක්‍රියාත්මක වන ව්‍යාපාර) හෝ පුද්ගලික ලාභ නොලබන සංවිධාන වෙත පැවරීමේ සිදුවීම හෝ ක්‍රියාවලියයි. පුළුල් අර්ථයකින්, පුද්ගලීකරනය යනු ආදායම් එකතු කිරීම සහ නීතිය බලාත්මක කිරීම වැනි රාජ්‍ය කාර්යයන් ඇතුළුව - ඕනෑම රජයේ කාර්යයක් පුද්ගලික අංශයට පැවරීමයි.

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## References
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*Bernard Black et al., 'Russian Privatization and Corporate Governance: What Went Wrong? (2000) 52 Stanford Law Review 1731

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* Zullo, Roland. (2009).  Does Fiscal Stress Induce Privatization? Correlates of Private and Intermunicipal Contracting, 1992-2002.  Governance 22.3 (July): 459-481.
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## External links
* In the Public Interest is a Resource Center on privatization and responsible contracting.
* Reports of the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich  Research database with many articles on the effects of privatisation