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  The role of community banks in South Africa: can it contribute to improve access to financial services for the poor?

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  This paper examines the various types of community banking initiatives present in South Africa, ranging from informal self-help financial services to formalised membership based institutions; ways in which these institutions have changed in recent years; reasons for their success or failure; and risks and potential for future growth of the sector.
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  Enhancing the competitiveness and productivity of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Africa: an analysis of differential roles of national governments through improved support services

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2002

  This paper studies the role of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in African development, the constraints that currently hamper their ability to fulfil this role, and measures which could enhance their competitiveness and effectiveness.
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  Transforming roles but not reality? Private sector and community involvement in tourism and forestry development on the Wild Coast, South Africa

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper reviews the changing roles of private sector and local residents in tourism and forestry development, looking both at what is envisaged in policies and plans, and what is emerging, taking the Wild Coast, South Africa as a case study.Main findings include:policy attention is focusing on wilderness, tourism, and forestry assets as opportunities for investment led economic growt
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  Private sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable, safe drinking water? How do members of poor communities affected by the process judge PSP? 
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  Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate sanitation by 2015.
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  Wine and worker welfare: private sector self-regulation under scrutiny in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Are ethical trade proponents barking up the wrong tree? Does emphasis on ethical sourcing allow retailers to avoid addressing the sources of inequitable power relations in North-South trade? Are designers of such private sector codes of conduct as the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) ready to engage in dialogue with stakeholders to sustainably improve rural livelihoods?
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  Helping municipalities work with the private sector: a salutary experience from South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Affermage contracts allow a private operator to deliver services with a greater degree of freedom than is possible with a management contract. What regulatory and institutional framework is required for this complex form of public private partnership (PPP) to fulfil its promise?
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  In two minds - should the private sector provide long-term psychiatric care?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What is the best way to care for people with chronic mental disorders? Do public or private institutions provide the most cost- effective services? Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand undertook a cost- quality analysis of six South African psychiatric institutions.
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  Tourism, local livelihoods, and the private sector in South Africa: case studies on the growing role of the private sector in Natural Resources Management

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Looks at how changing institutional arrangements and policies affect poor people's livelihoods and access to natural resources.It addresses tourism in South Africa, and the growing role of the private sector in natural resource management.
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  Case studies of private sector programmes to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

  Global Health Initiative, 2002

  Series of papers and background materials on private sector efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

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