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Searching with a thematic focus on Governance, Privatisation of infrastructure, Participation

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  Risk, taxpayers, and the role of government in project finance

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  A perennial question has been the relative cost of public and private finance for investment projects in infrastructure. Klein argues that the apparent cheapness of sovereign funds stems from taxpayers' not being remunerated for the contingent liability they effectively assume.
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  Why paper mills clean up : determinants of pollution abatement in four Asian countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Clean production is not uncommon even in very poor countries such as Bangladesh. Even when there is no formal regulation of pollution, large, efficient, domestically owned plants operating near relatively affluent communities have demonstrated excellent environmental performance. The same cannot be said for manufacturing facilities near poor communities.
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  Competition policy and the global trading system : a developing country perspective

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Certain factors can maximize the pressure on privatized infrastructure companies to be more efficient: the threat of bankruptcy, internal controls imposed by shareholders, and external disciplines (such as the threat of hostile takeover).The privatization of infrastructure companies is expected to bring about gains for customers by increasing the efficiency of the privatized company.
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  Private Sector Participation in the Water and Sanitation Sector

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997

  This paper aims to provide an overview of the principles that should underlay private sector participation in the water and sanitation sub-sector to help inform DFID, together with other stakeholders, on the role and potential of Private Sector Participation (PSP) in its broadest sense and to provide suggestions on what approaches might be appropriate to DFID's programmes and those of others in lo
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  Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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  Cost Benefit Analysis of Private Sector Environmental Investments: A Case Study of the Kunda Cement Factory

  International Finance Corporation, 1999

  Considers the case of a cement plant in Estonia and tries to answer the question: how do the (private) costs of curbing pollution compare to the (social) benefits to the population? While it is often easy to estimate costs, it is exceedingly difficult to capture the benefits, especially in developing and transition countries.
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  Marrying farmer cooperation and contract farming for service provision in a liberalising sub-Saharan Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  The paper explores ways of improving the performance of cooperation and contract farming, as well as the scope for linkages between them.
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  Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.
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  Reforming Institutions for Service Delivery: A Framework for Development Assistance with an Application to the Health, Nutrition, and Population Portfolio [of the World Bank]

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Argues for greater "institutional pluralism" in how the World Bank does business in the infrastructure, rural, and social sectors.
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  Lighting the Way: Knowledge Assessment in Prince Edward Island

  National Academies Press, 1999

  Knowledge Assessment is a methodology to evaluate a community's ability to acquire, diffuse, and utilize knowledge created by the USA National Research Council at the request of the World Bank. It was conceived to assist developing countries or other jurisdictions to cultivate knowledge-based enterprises capable of generating wealth from knowledge and technology.

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