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  Institutions, politics, and contracts: the privatization attempt of the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru

  Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2002

  Following severe economic crisis in 1989-90, Peru embarked on a programme of market-oriented structural reforms which included a proposal to privatise the operation of Lima’s water and sewerage utility.
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  Profiting from poverty: privatisation consultants, DFID and public services

  War on Want, 2004

  This paper analyses, for the first time, the role of privatisation consultants in developing countries.
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  Experiences of contracting with the private sector: a selected review

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This HSRC paper reviews the experiences of social agencies contracting with the private sector to provide health care services, and focuses on the capacity of this mechanism to improve access to services by the poor. A sample of country experiences are reviewed, reflecting a range of potential methods for using contracting to benefit the poor.
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  Private provision in its institutional context - lessons from health

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  Debate surrounding the roles of public and private sector in the provision of health services rarely reflects the reality of countries where most poor people live. This HSRC paper aims to explore this reality and develop practical strategies for meeting the needs of the poor.
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  Access to and privatisation of education

  International Youth Parliament, Oxfam, 2003

  This document, a chapter of the International Youth Parliament’s Youth Commission Report, considers the way that globalisation affects young people and their communities in the specific field of education.It argues that the processes of globalisation have both positive and negative effects on young people and their right to education.
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  Winners and losers: privatising the commons in Botswana

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  This paper explores key issues relating to the privatisation of livestock production in Botswana, with particular relevance to pastoral livelihoods.The paper reviews the history of land policy; summarises developments in recent years of rangeland policies; and analyses the economic, social and environmental impact of the process of privatising the commons in Botswana.Main conclusions include
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  Tricky compromises: problems with regulation and privatisation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Regulation is required to alleviate the damaging effects that market imperfections such as monopolies can have for social wellbeing and economic development. Regulation, however – be it by governments or independent agencies - faces two particular problems of its own: ‘hold-up’ and ‘information asymmetry’. What is at stake when countries try to regulate the market for development?
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  ‘Pro-poor’ water privatisation: ideology confounded in Bolivia?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Private sector involvement in water management is dubbed ‘pro-poor’ by donors and lenders. Is there evidence to support claims that concessions designed to generate international investment in financially- strapped public water companies are increasing the speed of network expansion to poor communities? What lessons can be learnt from concessions that have failed?
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  Private sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable, safe drinking water? How do members of poor communities affected by the process judge PSP? 
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  Water privatisation and people’s struggle to protect common water rights in Sri Lanka

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This issue of the SAAPE newsletter covers water privatisation in South Asia.

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