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  Money talks: how aid conditions continue to drive utility privatisation in poor countries

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This study of the World Bank and IMF’s own reports finds that the continued use of loan conditionality to impose the privatisation of water, electricity and other utility services on developing countries occurs in a number of ways:in some cases utility privatisation is explicitly included in key documents outlining loan conditions, at times ignoring outcomes of the PRSP consultations and
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  Assuring food and nutrition security in Africa by 2020: a way forward from the 2020 Africa Conference

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This report is the draft outcome document of the Conference on Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020 held from 1-3 April 2004.
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  Treacherous conditions: how IMF and World Bank policies tied to debt relief are undermining development

  World Development Movement, 2003

  This report analyses recent initiatives for debt relief led by the World Bank and the IMF, such as the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, and the conditionalities associated to them.
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  The expansion of the World Bank Group’s infrastructure agenda

  Citizens Network on Essential Services, USA, 2003

  This article critically reviews the World Bank’s approach to expanding its infrastructure business.
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  Poverty reduction strategy papers: review of private sector participation

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This study reviews the role of the private sector in the formulation, implementation and strategy articulated in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) endorsed by the World Bank and IMF. The purpose of the study is to determine whether PRSPs to date have taken adequate account of the role of the for-profit private sector in reducing poverty.
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  Donor ICT strategies matrix: December 2003

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2003

  This survey reports on how bilateral and multilateral donors have mainstreamed information and communication technologies (ICT) in their development assistance programmes in order to more effectively and efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  World Development Report 2004: making services work for poor people

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2003

  This issue of the WDR focuses on policies for improving the access of poor people to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity.The report focuses on the three ways in which services can be improved:By increasing poor clients’ choice and participation in service delivery, so they can monitor and discipline providers: School vouche
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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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  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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