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Water privatisation in SSA: Progress, problems and policy implications
Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002A 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.DocumentGetting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001In 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.DocumentGoverning multinationals: the role of foreign direct liability
Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2001This 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 happeningDocumentExporting corruption: privatisation, multinationals and bribery
The Corner House, UK, 2000Deals 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.Pages
