{"id":4874,"date":"2019-02-15T11:17:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T05:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astan.lk\/al_virtualclassroom\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2019-02-16T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T05:57:49","slug":"public-sector-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astan.lk\/al_virtualclassroom\/public-sector-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Public sector businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong> The government intervenes to carry out businesses for the welfare of the public<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>The government engages in business activities for the following reasons<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n\u2022 To control the unfavorable market situations in the private sector.<br \/>\n\u2022 To prevent monopolies<br \/>\n\u2022 To provide essential services to the public<br \/>\n\u2022 To minimize wastage of resources<br \/>\n\u2022 A State corporation is a business organization incorporated by a special or common act<br \/>\nowned completely or more of the ownership by the government and controlled by the board<br \/>\nof directors appointed by the government.<br \/>\n\u2022 Government Departments can be considered special institutions working under the<br \/>\nadministrative regulations and financial regulations, directly controlled under a ministry and<br \/>\noften providing the services.<br \/>\n\u2022 Provincial councils, Municipal councils, Town councils and Pradeshiya Saba are also<br \/>\nengaged in business activities.<br \/>\n\u2022 All government sector businesses are known as public sector<br \/>\n\u2022 Privatization is one of the procedures introduced by the government to make the different<br \/>\nbusiness in the public sector efficient.<br \/>\n\u2022 There are good and bad results in government sector businesses<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government intervenes to carry out businesses for the welfare of the public The government engages in business activities for the following reasons \u2022 To control the unfavorable market situations in the private sector. \u2022 To prevent monopolies \u2022 To provide essential services to the public \u2022 To minimize wastage of resources \u2022 A State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":842,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-studies","category-unit-5"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public sector businesses - Learning &amp; 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