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  Accountability mechanisms for multilateral financial institutions and the private sector

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper examines accountability mechanisms of for Multilateral Financial Institutions (MFI’s) and the Private Sector.
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  The cost of resolving small-business conflicts: the case of Peru

  2004

  In spite of the recognized importance of having an efficient, predictable and accessible judicial system in promoting growth and investment, scarce attention has been paid to the legal problems of small businesses and their legal needs. This study analyzes the overall interaction between the judicial system and small businesses in Peru.
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  Perpetuating poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: how African political elites undermine entrepreneurship and economic development

  International Policy Network, 2005

  This paper argues that Africa's political elites have driven their countries' economies backwards, by misusing the economic surplus generated by the continent over the past 40 years.
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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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  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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  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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  Toilet wars: urban sanitation services and the politics of public-private partnerships in Ghana

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the impact of the new forms of partnership between the public authorities and private/citizen-based organisations on urban environmental sanitation in the two largest cities of Ghana, namely, Accra and Kumasi.
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  Reforming the delivery of public services: who decides?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Several developing countries have recently initiated reforms to improve the ways in which public services such as health or water are delivered. These present a much harder task than the economic stabilisation reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. Unclear goals and uncertain benefits make their implementation difficult.
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  Nature for sale: the impacts of privatising water and biodiversity

  Friends of the Earth International, 2005

  This report, published by Friends of the Earth, discusses the impacts of privatisation of water supply and biodiversity on the poor throughout the world, especially women.
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  Dogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries

  War on Want, 2004

  The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.

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