I can name many but since you've only asked for one..Ireland.
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After independence in 1921, the new Irish government took the same paternalistic role, especially under the leadership of Eamon de Valera in the period 1932-48. Motivated by nationalistic and anti-British sentiments, de Valera tried to create a self-sufficient Ireland. To that end he jacked up protective tariffs and prohibited foreign ownership of industry. With investors scared off, de Valera and his Fianna Fail party began creating government firms to fill apparent gaps in the economy. Later, as misguided economic policies put increasing pressure on private firms, the government stepped in to take them over when they went bankrupt. By the 1970s the government owned some 100 entities, including a steel company, a peat-processing firm, banks, and the telephone service.
Undoing this centralized, government-directed economy has been a slow, halting process, but the overall trend is now clear. The first steps of liberalization were taken in the 1960s when tariffs were sharply reduced and the prohibitions against foreign firms were lifted. In fact, foreign firms were given tax breaks to set up in Ireland. Crushing tax burdens were somewhat reduced in the 1980s, when the top income tax rate was lowered from 60 to 48 percent. The 1990s have seen a number of government firms turned over to private ownership, including steel, telephones, and the airline company (Aer Lingus). Competition between government firms and private ones has been introduced in a number of sectors, including banking, parcel delivery, bus transportation, radio, and television. Overall, the relative size of the government sector has declined somewhat from its peak about 20 years ago. In 1980, government expenditures were 50.5 percent of GDP; in 1997 they had fallen to 40.3 percent. In the period 1988-98, as a result of privatization and cutbacks in subsidies, employment in government commercial entities fell by 19.6 percent."
