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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    What the users think - health and water service reform in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Economic reform (Economic Structural Adjustment Programme) in Zimbabwe in the 1990s has reduced public sector spending and introduced cost sharing to social services. As part of a series of studies carried out by the School of Public Policy, Birmingham on the role of government following structural adjustment, the views of health and water users were sought.
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    Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate sanitation by 2015.
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    Private sector participation in water and sanitation: promises and pitfalls

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The perception that governments cannot efficiently provide water and sanitation (WSS) services has led to greatly increased private sector participation (PSP). Are regulatory regimes ensuring that service providers do not exploit their customers? Can PSPs save water and make it safer? Are the poor getting basic services?
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    Water privatisation in Africa: how successful is it?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In much of Africa it is now thought that only privatisation can deliver improved water supply services. Is this assumption correct and is it based on concrete evidence? Can privatisation address the chronic problem of under-investment? How have management and institutional frameworks adapted to the arrival of major international water firms?

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