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    Flushing away arid theories: a reality check on the water debate

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is there too much theorizing about water? Does regarding water as an economic good obscure its cultural, social and symbolic dimensions? Can market forces protect the right of the poor to water?
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    Business as usual? Privatisation in Ukraine

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How has Ukrainian industry developed since privatisation? Who now owns Ukrainian firms? To what extent have they been restructured to operate as private companies? How have these changes affected Ukrainian industry’s performance?
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    Financing housing for the urban poor: opportunities for civil society-state-private sector collaboration

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The value of real estate held, but not legally owned, by the poor in the developing world, is at least US$9.3 trillion. How can this massive asset base be most effectively valued, applied and leveraged? How can community housing finance initiatives be connected to formal financial mechanisms?
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    Post-war blues: can the private sector help?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Violent conflict is today more frequent than it was two decades ago and international support for peace-making ever more crucial, especially for the poorest countries. Post- war reconstruction is by no means easy, however.
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    Training for empowerment: the impact of training on women's microenterprise development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Less and less importance is now being attached to training poor women - indeed some agencies have abandoned it altogether in favour of micro-credit and savings schemes. But should training be put back on the agenda? Research in five countries in collaboration with a UK team assessed whether training could pay dividends in the development of women's microenterprise initiatives.
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    Paying the perfect price: how efficient is the private sector grain trade in Bangladesh?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Bangladesh liberalised its private sector grain trade significantly in the early 1990s. Impediments to trade such as public sector involvement, trading licences, and anti- hoarding laws have been cut back whilst the telecommunications are far more efficient.
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    Input credit for smallholder farmers: can the private sector help?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Many governments in sub-Saharan Africa set up systems in the seventies and eighties to supply inputs for crop production on credit to smallholder farmers. Unsustainable, expensive, and based on monopoly control over output marketing by the state, these have been swept away during liberalisation.
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    Throwing the baby out with the bath water? Urban water management in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Reforms in Zimbabwe's urban water supply are driven by drought, financial shortage, and a growing awareness that water is a scarce commodity with economic value. The old system of water management based on direct governmental administration and professional control was effective, but new approaches are now designed to improve efficiency, equity, and sustainability.
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    Private sector drug retailers and malaria control in Kenya

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In many areas where malaria is endemic, people will buy drugs first from a local seller and treat themselves at home. Almost all home-based treatments are undertaken on a "trial and error" basis.
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    Models of success. Are health sector reforms delivering the goods in Venezuela?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    After economic crisis hit Venezuela in the l980s public health deteriorated sharply. At the same time, economic reform programmes required a change in the roles and capacity of government administration.

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