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    Water privatisation in SSA: Progress, problems and policy implications

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
    A large number of countries in the Sub-Saharian African (SSA) region have privatised water supply. But water is not like other commodities. The SSA are extremely poor and often subject to financial crises, therefore it is particularly difficult to promote the water sector as an attractive business prospect.
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    Getting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.
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    Governing multinationals: the role of foreign direct liability

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2001
    This Briefing Paper outlines the implications of one way of enforcing corporate environmental, social and human rights standards across borders: ‘foreign direct liability’.The briefing paper concentrates on:globalization and the new challenge of corporate governancethe new foreign direct liability agendaan investigation into the reasons why foreign direct liability is happening
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    Exporting corruption: privatisation, multinationals and bribery

    The Corner House, UK, 2000
    Deals with the globalisation of corruption. The article suggests that if corruption is growing throughout the world, it is largely a result of the rapid privatisation (and associated practices of contracting-out and concessions) of public enterprises worldwide.

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