Search

Searching with a thematic focus on Governance, Privatisation of infrastructure

Showing 191-200 of 369 results

Pages

• Document

  Water privatisation in Africa: how successful is it?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In much of Africa it is now thought that only privatisation can deliver improved water supply services. Is this assumption correct and is it based on concrete evidence? Can privatisation address the chronic problem of under-investment? How have management and institutional frameworks adapted to the arrival of major international water firms?
• Document

  PPPs, PWUs or PUPs? Alternatives to private sector water delivery

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Has the case for water privatisation been exaggerated? Are public sector water providers really that inefficient? Could public sector water undertakings (PWUs) or public-public partnerships (PUPs) between northern and southern public water utilities be more efficient, pro-poor, and more accountable than the much-vaunted and better- known Anglo-French model of public private partnerships (PPPs)?
• Document

  Cochabamba : victory or fiasco?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Was the failure of the Bolivian Cochabamba concession a victory against the World Bank, globalisation, and private sector participation in urban water supply? Was the consortium anti-poor?
• Document

  Putting policy into practice: can local government cope?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Increasingly, the debate over private sector involvement in the delivery of urban water services is addressing pro-poor policies and transactions. Yet, improvements in policy are not being accompanied by support for implementation and little emphasis is being placed on how local governments will cope with such complex processes.
• Document

  Power to choose: is pro-poor privatisation possible?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can private sector contracts be designed to serve the needs of the poor more effectively? Should quality of service be set at costly western standards? Or can large and small water providers compete to supply a range of services at prices that reflect consumer willingness and ability to pay?
• Document

  The regulation of private sector participation in urban water supply and sanitation: realising social and environmental objectives in developing countries

  Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 1999

  This paper provides an overview of the issues involved in the significant increase in private sector participation (PSP) in the urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector in recent years, and examines some of the mechanisms available to the authorities responsible for the regulation of the sector.The report argues that PSP in urban WSS is likely to continue to increase in importance in deve
• Document

  Understanding the links: globalization, health sector reform, gender and reproductive health

  Ford Foundation, 2003

  The paper considers the relevance of globalisation for women’s reproductive health and rights in the context of health sector programs and provides a gender analysis of sector-wide programs (SWAPs) and sector reforms examining how reproductive health is defined in sector-wide programs.
• Document

  Donor information and communication technology (ICT) strategies: summary matrix

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  This document analyses ICT for development strategies (objectives, guiding principles, institutional arrangements) and programmes designed to implement these strategies.
• Document

  Do Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) address gender? A gender audit of 2002 PRSPs

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper provides an audit of the 13 PRSPs produced during 2002 to question the efficiency with which they address gender issues.Findings:3 PRSPs address gender issues commendably if not completely (Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia)another 8 PRSPs spottily apply an outdated Women in Development approach, defining gender issues as reproductive health, girls’ education and a few other issu
• Document

  Privatisation and poverty: the distributional impact of utility privatisation

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2002

  This paper examines the relative distributional impact of utility privatisation to consider whether the policy is likely to relieve or exacerbate the quality of life of those on very low incomes.

Pages