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Searching with a thematic focus on Finance policy, Governance, Privatisation of infrastructure

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  GDN Project Country study: Croatia

  Global Development Network, 2002

  This paper assesses the various elements that have both harmed and aided in the growth process of Croatia. Due to its unique hybrid political system of free-market economies and state sanctioned socialism, Croatia was in a favourable position relative to other CEECs before radical transformation as a result of the war during 1991-4.
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  Water justice for all: global and local resistance to the control and commodification of water

  Friends of the Earth International, 2003

  This report explores the issue of global water justice.
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  Reforming infrastructure: privatization, regulation and competition

  Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2004

  This report draws lessons from the World Bank's experience with the reform and privatisation of infrastructure utilities over the last twenty years. The Bank has based policy around the privatisation of utility monopolies, arguing that if these industries are properly restructured, substantial competition can emerge in many activities.
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  Who’s taking risks?: how the World Bank pushes private infrastructure and finds resistance in some surprising places

  Citizens Network on Essential Services, USA, 2004

  This paper looks at efforts of the World Bank to increase private investment in infrastructure projects in the risky markets in developing countries through the promotion of a range of new instruments called fiscal supports. These guarantees and subsidies help to ensure corporate profitability can pose serious risks and costs for taxpayers.
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  Private sector development study: Angola

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  This study summarises the historical, political and economical background in Angola of relevance to the prevailing conditions for private sector development.
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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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  Determinants of European Union enterprises relocation in Bulgaria

  Center for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria, 2003

  In 1997, a massive flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Bulgaria was triggered by the introduction of the Currency Board and International Monetary Fund agreements.
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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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  ‘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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