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  Growing dangers of service apartheid: how the World Bank Group’s Private Sector Development (PSD) Strategy threatens infrastructure and basic service provision

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001

  This article discusses the World Bank's Private Sector Development Strategy (PSD).The article finds that:the main thrust of the PSD Strategy is not new.
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  Greening the Bretton Woods institutions

  Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001

  This looks at how the U.S. should adopt new foreign policy to influence World Bank and IMF strategic activities in a positive manner.This article finds that:the IMF and World Bank have failed to integrate environmental sustainability into their lending, concentrating instead on export-led exploitation of natural resources.
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  Agri-tourism spatial development initiatives in South Africa: are they enhancing rural livelihoods?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001

  This paper examines an attempt to kick-start economic growth through the promotion of agriculture and tourism in an mpoverished rural region of South Africa. It analyses the Spatial Development Initiatives (SDIs) being implemented by the South frican government, with a specific focus on the Wild Coast agri-tourism SDI.
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  The social impact of privatization and the regulation of utilities in Peru

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This article tries to assess the consumption and welfare impacts of privatization on Peruvian urban households.
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  A public goods approach to regulation of utilities

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  A process for achieving a fair process of utilities regulation needs to take into consideration the interest of consumers as well as those of the investors and the government. This paper conceptualises the problem of regulation as a problem of provision of a pure public good.
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  Concessions: the way to privatize infrastructure sector monopolies (WB)

  Private Sector Development Department, World Bank, 1999
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  Getting the private sector involved in water: what to do in the poorest of countries (WB)

  Private Sector Development Department, World Bank, 1999
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  Industry structure and regulation

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  With increasing private provision of public infrastructure and redefinition of the role of government, a key question must be addressed: How should providers of infrastructure be regulated?
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  Policy - based finance, financial regulation, and financial sector development in Japan

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Is Japan a good model for developing countries? Certainly macroeconomic stability, good information systems, effective monitoring, and financial discipline are essential for smooth functioning, efficient financial systems.
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  Government's role in Pakistan agriculture : major reforms are needed

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The proper role of Pakistan's government in the agriculture sector should be to encourage the development of a smoothly functioning market, through institutional and regulatory reform that facilitates market efficiency and private sector activities.

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