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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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    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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    Reforming infrastructure: privatization, regulation and competition

    Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2004
    This report draws lessons from the World Bank's experience with the reform and privatisation of infrastructure utilities over the last twenty years. The Bank has based policy around the privatisation of utility monopolies, arguing that if these industries are properly restructured, substantial competition can emerge in many activities.
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    Private sector development study: Angola

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004
    This study summarises the historical, political and economical background in Angola of relevance to the prevailing conditions for private sector development.
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    Money talks: how aid conditions continue to drive utility privatisation in poor countries

    ActionAid International, 2004
    This study of the World Bank and IMF’s own reports finds that the continued use of loan conditionality to impose the privatisation of water, electricity and other utility services on developing countries occurs in a number of ways:in some cases utility privatisation is explicitly included in key documents outlining loan conditions, at times ignoring outcomes of the PRSP consultations and
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    ‘Pro-poor’ water privatisation: ideology confounded in Bolivia?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Private sector involvement in water management is dubbed ‘pro-poor’ by donors and lenders. Is there evidence to support claims that concessions designed to generate international investment in financially- strapped public water companies are increasing the speed of network expansion to poor communities? What lessons can be learnt from concessions that have failed?
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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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    Not giving a damn: private financiers and dam displacement

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    During the last fifty years, between 30 and 80 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods through dam construction. In the wake of fiscal crises and changing donor priorities governments are turning to the private sector to finance dam projects. New research warns that those displaced by dams could suffer even more as a result.
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    Study on private sector development in Mozambique

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Mozambique and the priorities for donor intervention. The report reviews that there is a “big project bias” in Mozambique, therefore it is realistic to suggest that the potential for Norwegian investments in Mozambique would be participation by the bigger Norwegian companies in the large-scale projects within the energy and minerals sector.

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