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    Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business: Region by Region Results from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    More than 3,600 entrepreneurs world-wide respond to a survey about problems with uncertainty in dealings with the state.Case studies and anecdotal evidence have suggested that uncertainty about policies, laws, and regulations has hampered development of the private sector in many developing countries.
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    What Role for the Private Sector?: A Pragmatic Approach to EU ACP Relations

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
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    Stock Markets, Banks, and Economic Growth

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 1996
    Dataset available onlineDo well-functioning stock markets and banks promote long-run economic growth? This paper shows that stock market liquidity and banking development both positively, predict growth, capital accumulation, and productivity improvements when entered together in regressions, even after controlling for economic and political factors.
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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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    CARE Village Banks Project, Guatemala

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    The Women’s Village Banking (VB) Program of CARE Guatemala provides particularly interesting insights into some of the issues and challenges facing village banking programs around the world. Like many programs started in the 1980's, the CARE VB program was created as an experiment in the increasingly popular field of microenterprise finance.
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    FINCA: Insights from a unique approach to village banking [in Costa Rica]

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    FINCA Costa Rica has been both a leader and a non-conformist in village banking. As one of the first village banking examples in Latin America, the program offers valuable lessons to other village banking institutions. While still retaining the FINCA name, FINCA Costa Rica has split from FINCA International, the US-based NGO that is credited with developing the village banking methodology.
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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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    How Businesses See Government: Responses from Private Sector Surveys in 69 Countries

    International Finance Corporation, 1997
    Report on world-wide private sector survey which included a part on government-related obstacles to doing business. Entrepreneurs were asked to rate a list of 15 obstacles for their seriousness. This paper presents the results of almost 4000 entrepreneurs’ responses in 69 countries using a detailed regional breakup into 22 regions.
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    Pastoralists, paravets and privatisation: experiences in the Sanaag Region of Somaliland

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1996
    The civil war in Somalia between 1988 and 1991 resulted in considerable loss of human life and destruction of local infrastructure and government services throughout the country. In August 1991 ACTIONAID, in collaboration with VETAID, visited Sanaag region in the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland.
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    Sustaining high rates of economic growth in India

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001
    This article looks at means of strengthening India's growth strategy.The article suggests:a strategy focussing on export-led growth, which among other things requires greater emphasis on special economic zones, and openness of the economy, liberalization in India's labor laws, de-reservation of products for the small scale industry and other measures for the deregulation of India's priv

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