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  Communication strategies in the age of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services: lessons from two African experiences

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper describes the challenges of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services from the perspective of communication strategy development. The author argues that the wave of decentralisation and privatisation in rural services worldwide has created a challenge for rural communities, service providers and local governments.
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  Strengthening the foundations for growth and private sector development: investment climate and infrastructure development

  Development Committee, World Bank & IMF, 2004

  This note provides a brief overview of recent findings on the quality of the investment climate and policy effort, as well as on infrastructure service provision, which are informing the World Bank.Recent findings include:A good part of practical pro-poor growth policies is about bringing a better investment climate to areas where poor people liveSmaller and informal firms and farms
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  The Argentine banking and exchange rate crisis of 2001: can we learn something new about financial crisis?

  Instituto de Economia, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay, 2002

  One explanation of the banking crisis in Argentina in 2001 is that idiosyncratic, random shocks affecting the solvency of individual banks caused depositors to withdraw savings, causing panic which then spread throughout the system.
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  Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty: cross-country evidence

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty using a new database on the share of SME labour in the total manufacturing labour force.The authors use a sample of 76 countries to find:there is a strong association between the importance of SMEs and GDP per capita growththis relationship, ho
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  The role of community banks in South Africa: can it contribute to improve access to financial services for the poor?

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  This paper examines the various types of community banking initiatives present in South Africa, ranging from informal self-help financial services to formalised membership based institutions; ways in which these institutions have changed in recent years; reasons for their success or failure; and risks and potential for future growth of the sector.
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  Banking reform in the lower Mekong countries

  International Monetary Fund, 2004

  The paper reviews recent banking reform efforts in the lower Mekong countries (LMCs) of Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Vietnam.As the paper points out, the three LMCs face the dual challenge of economic development and transition to market-based economies.
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  Turning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.
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  Enhancing the competitiveness and productivity of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Africa: an analysis of differential roles of national governments through improved support services

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2002

  This paper studies the role of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in African development, the constraints that currently hamper their ability to fulfil this role, and measures which could enhance their competitiveness and effectiveness.
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  Leveraging the private sector for public health objectives: a briefing paper for DFID on technology transfer in the pharmaceuticals sector

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This HSRC study maps a variety of Technology Transfer (TT) experiences and analyses the motivations behind the enabling agreements. TT is defined as the dissemination of knowledge and expertise from developed country organisations to developing country organisations.
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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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