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  The privatization of social services in Chile: an evaluation

  Global Development Network, 2003

  The privatization of social services in Chile began in 1981. This reform of social services created a system where there is competition between private providers, although the State kept a regulatory and supervisory role.
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  The roles of the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO in liberalization and privatization of the water services sector

  Citizens Network on Essential Services, USA, 2005

  In recent years there has been growing pressure from the World Bank and other major International Financial Institutions on governments todownsize, decentralise, and privatise (or “contract out”) their functions.
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  Water and the GATS: mapping the trade – development interface

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  In the context of efforts to liberalise the market in services according to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) principles, this paper assesses the consequences for the water market.
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  Lessons from a failed privatisation experience: the case of the Philippines’ Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS)

  Jubilee South, 2005

  This paper describes the experiences made in privatising water in the Philippines. With a national policy in place for prioritising debt service, the Philippine government had failed to invest in building a safe and affordable water supply. Particularly in Metro Manila, the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) was unable to maintain continuous water supply.
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  Toilet wars: urban sanitation services and the politics of public-private partnerships in Ghana

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the impact of the new forms of partnership between the public authorities and private/citizen-based organisations on urban environmental sanitation in the two largest cities of Ghana, namely, Accra and Kumasi.
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  Unlocking public entrepreneurship and public economies

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper explores and expands on the hypothesis that unlocking human potential requires a rich network of institutional arrangements in both private and public spheres. Opening the private sphere to entrepreneurship and complex market organisation is well understood as a key to increasing the level and quality of private goods available to consumers.
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  Reforming the delivery of public services: who decides?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Several developing countries have recently initiated reforms to improve the ways in which public services such as health or water are delivered. These present a much harder task than the economic stabilisation reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. Unclear goals and uncertain benefits make their implementation difficult.
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  Equity, privatization and cost recovery in urban health care: the case of Lao PDR

  Health Policy and Planning, 2002

  This article, published in Health Policy and Planning, reports on a study that assessed the impact of privatisation and cost recovery on health care equity in the Lao PDR. The study compared two urban neighbourhoods of different socioeconomic status, using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions to assess perceptions and utilisation of health care services.
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  Nature for sale: the impacts of privatising water and biodiversity

  Friends of the Earth International, 2005

  This report, published by Friends of the Earth, discusses the impacts of privatisation of water supply and biodiversity on the poor throughout the world, especially women.
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  Turning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.

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