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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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  Cost and cost-effectiveness of public-private mix DOTS: evidence from two pilot projects in India

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This World Health Organization (WHO) report examines the cost and cost-effectiveness of implementing DOTS (directly observed treatment, short-course) – the internationally recognised tuberculosis control therapy – through a mix of the public and private sectors. This strategy, known as public-private mix DOTS (PPM-DOTS), was piloted in two projects in India, one in Hyderabad and one in Delhi.
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  Banking on reproductive health: the World Bank’s support for population, the Cairo agenda and the Millennium Development Goals

  The Global Health Council, 2004

  This report from the Global Health Council reviews the World Bank’s investment in population and reproductive health in light of new donor funding mechanisms and priorities such as health reform and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It highlights the gap between available and needed resources.
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  Sustainability banking in Africa

  African Institute of Corporate Citizenship, 2004

  This report looks at the role of the financial sector in Africa in promoting sustainability. The evidence from the report points to the emergence of a dynamic business case for sustainability banking in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Banks-enterprises nexus under a currency board: empirical evidence from Bulgaria

  Institute of Economics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2003

  This study analyses bank lending in the context of bank-firm relations within the Bulgarian currency board. It focuses on the intersection of credit supply and demand on the side of banks and firms.
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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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  Effective regulation of private sector health service providers

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1998

  This paper, written for the World Bank Mediterranean Development Forum held in 1998, proposes operational principles for designing and implementing effective regulation of private sector health service delivery. The paper examines the nature of the privatisation process within the health sector, the rationale for regulation, and concepts and definitions of regulation.
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  Public private partnerships in health: a global call to action

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004

  This paper, produced by Health Research Policy and Systems, outlines key challenges in public-private arrangements in health care and makes a Global Call to Action to address these challenges. The author establishes several ethical challenges in public-private partnerships.
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  Overview of whistleblower protections at the Multilateral Development Banks

  Government Accountability Project, 2004

  This paper offers an overview of the findings recommendations and next steps that came out of a series of reports assessing the whistleblower protection policies at four multilateral development banks (MDBs): the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).All four of the banks surveyed r
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  Water for life: the impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality

  Universidad Torcuato di Tello, Argentina, 2004

  During the 1990s, about 30 per cent of Argentinean municipalities, covering approximately 60 per cent of the population, privatised their water services.

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