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  Private health care in developing countries

  British Medical Journal, 2001

  This article, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), looks at issues surrounding private healthcare provision in low and middle income countries. It notes that private healthcare provision is growing in such countries.
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  The increased role of foreign bank entry in emerging markets

  Bank for International Settlements, 2005

  This paper considers the recent transformation of the role of foreign banks in emerging markets.
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  Financing SMEs in Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 2005

  This document examines how the sector of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa can be developed further.
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  Lessons from a failed privatisation experience: the case of the Philippines’ Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS)

  Jubilee South, 2005

  This paper describes the experiences made in privatising water in the Philippines. With a national policy in place for prioritising debt service, the Philippine government had failed to invest in building a safe and affordable water supply. Particularly in Metro Manila, the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) was unable to maintain continuous water supply.
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  The business of higher education: a study of public-private partnerships in the provision of higher education in South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2005

  This study explores public-private partnerships that existed between 2002 and early 2003 in higher education provision in South Africa.
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  Banking the underserved: new opportunities for commercial banks - exploring the business case

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper reports on a study documenting the financial experience of a diverse sample of commercial banks that have opted to expand into microfinance as a new line of business.
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  Private sector, human resources and health franchising in Africa

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This article, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, outlines the available evidence on which sections of society benefit from publicly provided care and which sections use private health care. The authors assess use of public and private health services, as well as the use of franchise networks which supplement government programmes in the delivery of public health services.
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  Anarchy and invention: how does Somalia’s private sector cope without government?

  Public Policy for the Private Sector [World Bank], 2004

  This document explores how the Somali private sector can function without any government in place.
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  Role of banks in the Czech monetary policy transmission mechanism

  Czech National Bank, Czech Republic, 2004

  What is the impact of monetary policy changes on the growth rate of loans and the characteristics of the supply of loans in the Czech Republic for the period 1996–2001?The study uses a panel of quarterly time series for Czech commercial banks to study fluctuations in total client loans and fluctuations in the sub-group of client loans to residents over two consecutive time periods: 1996–1998 an
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  Uses of privatization proceeds: Jordan’s case (1995-2004)

  Center for Strategic Studies, Jordan, 2004

  One of the most important areas in which there have been prolonged and persistent debate and discussion after the Privatisation Program started in Jordan was precisely around the issue of utilsation of privatisation proceeds. Privatisation proceeds are major sums of money, generated from selling public assets, which were yielding flows of income to the Treasury.

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