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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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    Not giving a damn: private financiers and dam displacement

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    During the last fifty years, between 30 and 80 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods through dam construction. In the wake of fiscal crises and changing donor priorities governments are turning to the private sector to finance dam projects. New research warns that those displaced by dams could suffer even more as a result.
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    Public-private partnerships for agroindustrial research: recommendations from an expert consultation

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2003
    This briefing paper reports on a workshop looking at public-private partnerships in agroindustrial research. It presents case studies carried out in Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Paraguay, which highlight challenges to the integration of public-private partnerships, as well as supplementary experiences in Germany and Africa.
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    Can developing countries achieve adequate improvements in child health outcomes without engaging the private sector?

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2003
    The private sector exerts a significant and critical influence on child health outcomes in developing countries. This article in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization reviews the available evidence on private sector utilisation and quality of care.
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    Strategy for Norwegian support of private sector development in developing countries

    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 1999
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    Making markets work for the poor: challenge to Sida's support to private sector development

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003
    This report provides a basic descriptive framework and a source of knowledge on poverty focused private sector development.
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    Study on private sector development in Mozambique

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Mozambique and the priorities for donor intervention. The report reviews that there is a “big project bias” in Mozambique, therefore it is realistic to suggest that the potential for Norwegian investments in Mozambique would be participation by the bigger Norwegian companies in the large-scale projects within the energy and minerals sector.
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    Poverty reduction strategy papers: review of private sector participation

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
    This study reviews the role of the private sector in the formulation, implementation and strategy articulated in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) endorsed by the World Bank and IMF. The purpose of the study is to determine whether PRSPs to date have taken adequate account of the role of the for-profit private sector in reducing poverty.

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