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    Privatising basic utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: the MDG impact

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    Has privatisation brought development to Africa? This policy brief contends that privatisation has undermined progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The authors explain that African countries find themselves in a bind. While donor and private financing of public investment has declined, many governments have had to cut public spending in order to pay back creditors.
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    Pakistan: study of non-state providers of basic services.

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2004
    This paper analyses the relationship between the government and non-state providers (NSPs) of basic services in Pakistan.
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    South Africa: study of non-state providers of basic services

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2004
    This study examines non-state providers (NSP) of health, education and water and sanitation in South Africa and the relationship between NSP and the government. It finds that whilst the government formally welcomes non-state involvement, it tends to view state provision of public services as the norm.
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    Are you being served?: popular satisfaction with health and education services in Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2007
    This article explores the determinants of public satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with health and education services in Africa.
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    Local government reform in Tanzania 2002-2005: summary of research findings on governance, finance and service delivery

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2006
    This briefing paper summarises the impacts of Tanzania's Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP) on local governance, finances and service delivery.Key findings discussed include:a substantial development in the processes of decision making, especially through attempts to include citizens in the planning process.
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    Providing services to enhance citizenship and improve accountability: information is key

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006
    This paper looks at the connection between democratic accountability and enhancing service provision for the poor.
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    Literature review of non-state provision of basic services

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2004
    This paper reviews the recent literature on non-state provision of health, education, and water and sanitation services, focusing on how government and civil society relate to the providers of those services.General findings include that:the political and ideological significance that the education, health, water and sanitation sectors may carry is a theme hardly developed in the litera
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    Mapping of donors’ policies and approaches towards non-state service providers

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2004
    This document provides an overview of donor agencies’ policies towards non-state service providers (NSPs) and the main approaches that they advocate for engaging with them. It is accompanied by an Annex which contains profiles of individual donors’ policies. It reports that none of the donors surveyed have general, cross-sectoral policies on engaging with non-state service providers.
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    Bangladesh: study of non-state providers of basic services

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2006
    This report, from a series of country studies commissioned by the UK Department for International Development, examines non-state providers (NSPs) of health, education, water and sanitation in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has an unusually large non-government organisation (NGO) sector with an estimated 22,000 organisations.
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    Governance and getting the private sector to provide better water and sanitation services to the urban poor

    Human Settlements Programme, 2006
    This working paper examines issues related to the governance of private sector water and sanitation services.The author reviews a number of related issues, including:urban water and sanitation issues and the Millennium Development Goalsmisleading controversies over private versus public provision of water and sanitationthe principles of water governance and the dangers of promot

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