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  Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  This research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe looks at the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of 'legal pluralism' and complex, politicised institutional settings. In the southern African context rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested.
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  Decent work and the informal economy

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report was produced for the 90th Session of the International Labour Conference in 2002 .
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  Water privatisation in Latin America, 2002

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This report sets out the main developments and current situation in respect of water privatisation and restructuring in Latin America as at June 2002. It assesses the multinationals active in Latin America; issues of public sector water and resistance; the Argentina crisis; conditionality problems; labour issues; and public finance. It presents developments by country in south and central America.
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  Flushing away arid theories: a reality check on the water debate

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is there too much theorizing about water? Does regarding water as an economic good obscure its cultural, social and symbolic dimensions? Can market forces protect the right of the poor to water?
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  Financing housing for the urban poor: opportunities for civil society-state-private sector collaboration

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The value of real estate held, but not legally owned, by the poor in the developing world, is at least US$9.3 trillion. How can this massive asset base be most effectively valued, applied and leveraged? How can community housing finance initiatives be connected to formal financial mechanisms?
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  Water pressure? Politics hinders reform in Ghana

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What is the role of the public sector in sub- Saharan Africa, and how effective is it? Is reform possible where economics clashes with political reality? A University of Birmingham report examines the debate amongst World Bank and IMF economists, focusing on attempted reform of Ghana’s urban water supply.
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  Throwing the baby out with the bath water? Urban water management in Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Reforms in Zimbabwe's urban water supply are driven by drought, financial shortage, and a growing awareness that water is a scarce commodity with economic value. The old system of water management based on direct governmental administration and professional control was effective, but new approaches are now designed to improve efficiency, equity, and sustainability.
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  What the users think - health and water service reform in Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Economic reform (Economic Structural Adjustment Programme) in Zimbabwe in the 1990s has reduced public sector spending and introduced cost sharing to social services. As part of a series of studies carried out by the School of Public Policy, Birmingham on the role of government following structural adjustment, the views of health and water users were sought.
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  Pipe dreams. Does privatised water offer poor urban neighbourhoods a better supply?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The supply of water to towns and cities in many low-income countries is in crisis One much vaunted solution is for private companies to step in. A University of Birmingham research study examined how water supply is organised in some low income countries. The study report identifies a range of supply strategies, each involving different degrees of private involvement.
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  Does reforming mean improving? Consumers speak out on Ghana's health and water services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Governments tackling economic reforms have to balance pressures from international agencies to curb public spending, with meeting domestic social responsibilities. Most find this adjustment an impossible task. Health and water provision are prime concerns and certainly rate top priority among citizens. Governments make policy but what of people who must live with it? What do consumers want?

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