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    Winners and losers: assessing the distributional impact of privatization

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2002
    While most technical assessments classify privatization as a success, it remains widely and increasingly unpopular, largely because of the perception that it is fundamentally unfair, both in conception and execution.This repoprt reviews the increasing (but still uneven) literature and conclude that most privatization programs appear to have worsened the distribution of assets and income, at lea
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    Tomorrow's market: global trends and their implications for business

    World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2002
    Aimed at the business community, this report looks at the rising interest in using market solutions to address some of the world's most pressing problems such as population, wealth, nutrition, health, education, consumption, energy, emissions, efficiency, ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater, urbanization, mobility, communications, labor, democracy, accountability and privat
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    Agricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
    This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.
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    African Scholars' Forum for Envisioning Africa: focus on NEPAD

    WSSD Web Site of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2002
    Collection of papers from a forum organised by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, together with the Mazingira Institute and the African academy of Sciences.
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    New strategies, old loan conditions: the case of Uganda

    Bretton Woods Project, 2002
    Based on secondary materials and interviews with leading officials within the Government of Uganda, bi-lateral and multi-lateral institutions and civil society organizations in Uganda and Washington DC over 2001, this study presents evidence that crucial policy prescriptions within the PRSC and PRGF may impair Uganda’s ability to effectively realize its antipoverty and growth goals.Uganda's Pov
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    Local governance for poverty reduction in Africa

    Global March Against Child Labour, 2002
    Concept paper for the Fifth Africa Governance Forum Maputo, Mozambique, 23-25 May 2002The paper argues for decentralization as an important first step in creating regular, predictable opportunities for citizen-state interaction, despite its limited application and success record in Africa.
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    Adapting to climate change

    Finance and Development, IMF, 2002
    Article examining possible impacts of climate change on developing economies and making suggestions for how countries might develop policies to mitigate ecomomic and fiscal disruption.Among the recommended actions are:When crafting the fiscal stance, governments should take account of their countries' potential vulnerability to economic shocks arising from extreme weather events.gov
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    Another PSIRU critique of another version of the World Bank private sector development strategy

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
    In December 2001, the World Bank (WB) issued a revised strategy for Private Sector Development (PSD).
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    Still fixated with privatisation: a critical review of the World Bank's water resources sector strategy

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
    This article discusses the World Bank's water strategy. The article is critical of the water strategy.
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    The policy roots of economic crisis and poverty: a multi-country participatory assessment of structural adjustment

    Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2001
    The report documents a systematic weakening of the productive capacity of the countries implementing Bank policies and the inability of these countries to generate productive employment at a living wage.

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