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  Dogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries

  War on Want, 2004

  The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.
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  Water for life: the impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality

  Universidad Torcuato di Tello, Argentina, 2004

  During the 1990s, about 30 per cent of Argentinean municipalities, covering approximately 60 per cent of the population, privatised their water services.
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  Communication strategies in the age of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services: lessons from two African experiences

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper describes the challenges of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services from the perspective of communication strategy development. The author argues that the wave of decentralisation and privatisation in rural services worldwide has created a challenge for rural communities, service providers and local governments.
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  Strengthening the foundations for growth and private sector development: investment climate and infrastructure development

  Development Committee, World Bank & IMF, 2004

  This note provides a brief overview of recent findings on the quality of the investment climate and policy effort, as well as on infrastructure service provision, which are informing the World Bank.Recent findings include:A good part of practical pro-poor growth policies is about bringing a better investment climate to areas where poor people liveSmaller and informal firms and farms
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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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  Economic reforms and development strategy in Gujarat

  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2002

  The Gujarat state government has followed a strategy focussed on industrialisation and urbanisation with an open door policy ever since its inception in 1960. Economic reform measures at the centre with an explicit emphasis on trade and industry considerably benefited Gujarat, making its economic performance outstanding.
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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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  Institutions, politics, and contracts: the privatization attempt of the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru

  Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2002

  Following severe economic crisis in 1989-90, Peru embarked on a programme of market-oriented structural reforms which included a proposal to privatise the operation of Lima’s water and sewerage utility.
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  Financing water for all: behind the border policy convergence in water management

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper discusses the shifts in paradigms and practices around global water financing.
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  NORAD annual report 2003: countries

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  This section of Norad’s annual report details the main activities with Norway’s twenty four partner countries. Norway’s main partners include Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Bangladesh and Nepal. Approximately one third of the funds administered by Norad were channelled through various organizations and their partners in Norway’s twenty four target countries.

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