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    Not giving a damn: private financiers and dam displacement

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    During the last fifty years, between 30 and 80 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods through dam construction. In the wake of fiscal crises and changing donor priorities governments are turning to the private sector to finance dam projects. New research warns that those displaced by dams could suffer even more as a result.
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    Study on private sector development in Mozambique

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Mozambique and the priorities for donor intervention. The report reviews that there is a “big project bias” in Mozambique, therefore it is realistic to suggest that the potential for Norwegian investments in Mozambique would be participation by the bigger Norwegian companies in the large-scale projects within the energy and minerals sector.
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    Poverty reduction strategy papers: review of private sector participation

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
    This study reviews the role of the private sector in the formulation, implementation and strategy articulated in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) endorsed by the World Bank and IMF. The purpose of the study is to determine whether PRSPs to date have taken adequate account of the role of the for-profit private sector in reducing poverty.
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    Study on private sector development in Zambia

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Zambia and priorities for donor intervention.Priorities identified for future donor investment include: Specific support to the road and electrification sector: particularly in locations with a potential for tourism, agriculture and other non-mining industries The SME sector and informal sector Support to the financial sector and business developm
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    Study on private sector development in Bangladesh

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Bangladesh and the priorities for donor intervention. It suggests that the donor community can assist through ensuring an enabling environment nationally and internationally, credit and business development services for small and medium-sized enterprises through private sector associations etc.
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    Study on private sector development in Sri Lanka

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Sri Lanka and the priorities for donor intervention.
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    Study on private sector development in Uganda

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Uganda and priorities for donor intervention.Priorities identified for future donor investment include: Governance: creating a conducive environment for investment and production. Initiatives in commercial justice and corporate governance Energy: particularly rural districts.
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    Study on private sector development in Malawi

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Malawi and the priorities for donor intervention.
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    Water privatisation and people’s struggle to protect common water rights in Sri Lanka

    South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003
    This issue of the SAAPE newsletter covers water privatisation in South Asia.
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    The commodification of water: leaving us high and dry?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Who owns water? Should anybody own it? Is water a human need or a human right? As the world’s water crisis worsens, can private sector management come to the rescue – or is fresh water in danger of becoming big business and a preserve of the wealthy?

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