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  The commodification of water: leaving us high and dry?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Who owns water? Should anybody own it? Is water a human need or a human right? As the world’s water crisis worsens, can private sector management come to the rescue – or is fresh water in danger of becoming big business and a preserve of the wealthy?
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  Private sector involvement in China’s forests: sustainable forestry?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  In recent decades the transformation of China’s forestry sector has enabled households to earn income from forestry, lease forest land and own trees. How are national reforms being implemented locally? Can the private sector help make forestry more sustainable?
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  Submission to the Basel committee on banking supervision:CP3 and the developing world

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This article highlights the major areas of concern to developing countries about the Basle II Capital Accord for discussion at the 2003 Bank/IMF Autumn meetings.
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  Creating market opportunities for small enterprises: experiences of the fair trade movement

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper assesses the successes and lessons learned in Fair Trade to date.
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  Does privatization improve education? The case of Chile's national voucher plan

  School of Education, Stanford University, 2000

  This paper examines the push to expand public funding for private education in the form of vouchers or charter schools.
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  Problems and perspectives of developing small and medium sized businesses in Belarus

  Institute for Privatization and Management,, Belarus, 2003

  Nowadays, modern economies are unthinkable without small and medium sized companies. They create job opportunities, offer food, clothes and services to the population.
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  The rural poor, the private sector and markets: changing interactions in Southern Africa

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Is current development thinking in Southern Africa correct in claiming that market-oriented strategies and private sector involvement are the basis for future economic growth in the region?
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  Water privatisation in Latin America, 2002

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This report sets out the main developments and current situation in respect of water privatisation and restructuring in Latin America as at June 2002. It assesses the multinationals active in Latin America; issues of public sector water and resistance; the Argentina crisis; conditionality problems; labour issues; and public finance. It presents developments by country in south and central America.
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  Does informal credit provide security? rural banking policy in India

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  This paper addresses rural banking and credit policy in contemporary India and its effect on credit portfolios of rural workers. It explores major directions of rural banking and credit policy and indicators of performance of this activity in India since 1969, when 14 major commercial banks were nationalized.
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  Foreign banks in emerging markets: a Turkish success story

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  As foreign banks enter emerging markets that were previously closed, what strategies should they use to gain a viable foothold? How does the presence of global financial institutions affect the level of competition and efficiency and the product range of the host country’s banking sector? What impact do the foreign banks have on the strategies of local banks?

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