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  Overview of whistleblower protections at the Multilateral Development Banks

  Government Accountability Project, 2004

  This paper offers an overview of the findings recommendations and next steps that came out of a series of reports assessing the whistleblower protection policies at four multilateral development banks (MDBs): the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).All four of the banks surveyed r
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  Water for life: the impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality

  Universidad Torcuato di Tello, Argentina, 2004

  During the 1990s, about 30 per cent of Argentinean municipalities, covering approximately 60 per cent of the population, privatised their water services.
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  Communication strategies in the age of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services: lessons from two African experiences

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper describes the challenges of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services from the perspective of communication strategy development. The author argues that the wave of decentralisation and privatisation in rural services worldwide has created a challenge for rural communities, service providers and local governments.
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  Strengthening the foundations for growth and private sector development: investment climate and infrastructure development

  Development Committee, World Bank & IMF, 2004

  This note provides a brief overview of recent findings on the quality of the investment climate and policy effort, as well as on infrastructure service provision, which are informing the World Bank.Recent findings include:A good part of practical pro-poor growth policies is about bringing a better investment climate to areas where poor people liveSmaller and informal firms and farms
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  Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty: cross-country evidence

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty using a new database on the share of SME labour in the total manufacturing labour force.The authors use a sample of 76 countries to find:there is a strong association between the importance of SMEs and GDP per capita growththis relationship, ho
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  Turning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.
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  Enhancing the competitiveness and productivity of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Africa: an analysis of differential roles of national governments through improved support services

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2002

  This paper studies the role of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in African development, the constraints that currently hamper their ability to fulfil this role, and measures which could enhance their competitiveness and effectiveness.
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  Institutions, politics, and contracts: the privatization attempt of the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru

  Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2002

  Following severe economic crisis in 1989-90, Peru embarked on a programme of market-oriented structural reforms which included a proposal to privatise the operation of Lima’s water and sewerage utility.
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  The ISO and corporate social responsibility: small and medium-sized enterprises

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  The existing social responsibility (SR) debate almost entirely focuses on large enterprises. The drivers of the debate, including NGOs, investors and regulatory authorities, naturally tend to focus on large, high profile companies.
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  Reforming infrastructure: privatization, regulation and competition

  Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2004

  This report draws lessons from the World Bank's experience with the reform and privatisation of infrastructure utilities over the last twenty years. The Bank has based policy around the privatisation of utility monopolies, arguing that if these industries are properly restructured, substantial competition can emerge in many activities.

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