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  International dialogue on public-private dialogue: proceedings

  World Bank, 2006

  This is the report from a conference which responded to the growing need for best practice guidance on building dialogue between the public and private sectors (PPD) as a way to encouarge private sector development in states with poor investment climates.
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  Back to the future for African infrastructure? Why state-ownership is no more promising the second time around

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2006

  Many African state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those in infrastructure sectors, have a long history of poor performance. Since the 1990s, there has been heavy reliance on private sector participation and ownership, but Africa’s private participation in infrastructure (PPI) initiatives have been comparatively few and weak.
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  How multinational investors evade developed country laws to prevent bribery and corruption in the developing world (including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and what can be done about it

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2006

  Despite preventative measures, many multinational corporations from the U.S.A. Europe and Japan manage to pay their way out of complying with ethical and environmental constraints and evade anti-corruption laws, using sophisticated payment mechanisms to buy the favour of government ministers and their families.
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  Making insurance work for the poor

  Global Development Research Center, 2006

  This briefing paper is an output from a conference held in 2005 on microfinance and microinsurance, attended by several international stakeholders, including DFID, the ILO and CGAP.For the purpose of the conference, microinsurance was defined as: "the protection of low income people against specific perils in exchange for regular premium payments proportionate to the likelihood and cost of the
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  Maximising the benefits from water and environmental sanitation: cooperation with private sector to improve results: a pilot water project in Uganda

  Yme, 2005

  While the UN-Water Decade and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) define the focus of both governments and nongovernmental organisations to improve the situation of many communities, new concepts and models for partnership have to be found to make a real impact within a short allocated time.
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  Working with the private sector to eliminate poverty

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  Poor people sell their labour and goods, buy their food and other services in transactions that are predominantly private. As employees and business owners, every day they negotiate the threats and opportunities of their markets, however fragile the environment may be.
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  The private sector’s role in the provision of infrastructure in post-conflict countries: patterns and policy options

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines private investment patterns in post-conflict countries based on the World Bank’s Private Participation in Infrastructure database, and looks at some success stories that may offer useful policy lessons for other post-conflict countries.The investment patterns show that:telecoms investments, particularly mobile telephony, materialise immediately after (sometimes even
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  Private-public partnerships in Georgia: a case study of contracting an NGO to provide specialist health services

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This issues paper, published by the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre, details a contracting arrangement made between the Georgian government and a non-profit, non-governmental health provider, the Jo Ann Medical Centre (JAMC) to provide paediatric cardiac surgery.
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  Modeling private sector development in the People’s Republic of China

  ADB Institute, 2005

  In this paper, a simplified mathematical model based on the behavioral pattern of firms in the PRC is used to discuss the impact of privatisation on private sector development in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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  Private sector, human resources and health franchising in Africa

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This article, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, outlines the available evidence on which sections of society benefit from publicly provided care and which sections use private health care. The authors assess use of public and private health services, as well as the use of franchise networks which supplement government programmes in the delivery of public health services.

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